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Butyric Acid

Original designation: Acide butyrique

Brutally pungent neat yet transformative in traces, where its rancid-butter acidity can make fruit, dairy, leather or animalic ideas feel uncannily alive.

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5 g

€5.33

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Butyric Acid · MO-029 · Front presentation1 / 2: Front presentation

Olfactive character

Top note

In perfumery vocabulary, Butyric Acid is associated with rancid butter, cheesy, acidic, fermented, sharp and fatty. Its creative role is an agile top-note instrument with vivid lift, giving structure and character to complex accords.

  • rancid butter
  • cheesy
  • acidic
  • fermented
  • sharp
  • fatty
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At the perfumer’s organ

  • trace realism in dairy and fruit accords
  • fermented facets
  • animalic-gourmand tension

Extraction & expression

Aroma chemicals are the precision instruments of the organ. Their value is structural as much as olfactive: they can sharpen an outline, create space, bridge naturals or sustain an effect with repeatable clarity.

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Archive age and character

Preserved in the HombreOils collection since before 2006, this material is at least 20 years old. It offers a rare encounter with the textures and signatures of an earlier perfumery era, ready to explore on the blotter and in new compositions.

Material registerCatalogue identity and recorded details
HombreOils reference
MO-029
Historic catalogue name
Calchauvet
Availability
Available
Material type
Aroma chemical
Physical form
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