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Absolute
Each class opens a distinct part of the HombreOils palette. Select one to discover its materials, then follow original designations and specialist terms into the full catalogue.
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Discover the vocabulary of exceptional perfumery materials
Explore eleven material classes, from absolutes and essences to concretes, resinoids, fractions and historic bases. Follow their original French vocabulary through a specialist 58-term glossary.
11 material classes · 58 specialist terms · 265 catalogue materials
Historic refinement technologies
Processes that expanded the perfumer’s palette
Twentieth-century extraction houses combined primary extraction with increasingly selective finishing. These methods gave perfumers finer control over waxes, colour, volatility and aromatic fractions, and many were advanced technologies in their era.
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MD / DM · molecular distillation
High vacuum and a short vapour path can separate heat-sensitive or high-boiling fractions with limited thermal exposure. Depending on the chosen cut, the process may concentrate, decolourise, deodorise or remove selected constituents. In the HombreOils record, MD2 on Fir Absolute denotes two additional molecular-distillation stages.
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SPD / CD · short-path distillation
A very short residence time under high vacuum reduces thermal stress while separating lighter and heavier fractions. The technology offered historic extraction houses a precise way to reshape difficult aromatic materials; exact Calchauvet equipment and cut points are not recorded.
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Alcohol washing · purification
Ethanol dissolves the aromatic portion of a concrete or resinoid; chilling and filtration remove waxes and heavier insolubles before concentration under vacuum. This classic route turns many primary extracts into absolutes and was central to Grasse production.
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Rectification · decolourisation · reprocessing
Redistillation, selective filtration or another recovery step can tune composition, reduce colour or recover a useful fraction. Labels such as RECT, DEC, REP and TT/HT preserve those treatment clues, but do not disclose every solvent, temperature or sequence.
A process mark describes a transformation, not an automatic guarantee of purity or universal superiority. HombreOils prices documented premium grades above directly comparable standard grades, while each historic lot still requires sensory and technical evaluation.
Continue through the vocabulary
Continue through the vocabulary
Use the glossary to decode abbreviations, extraction terms and historic naming, then add the materials that interest you to one tailored quotation.