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Animalic / Animal-derived

Castoreum Base N2 LA 4121

Original designation: Castoréum BASE N2 LA 4121

Two coded castoreum bases preserved as companion house constructions, offering a route into the dense leather-and-animalic vocabulary of an earlier perfumery organ.

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1 g

€47.20

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Castoreum Base N2 LA 4121 · MO-034 · Front presentation1 / 2: Front presentation

Olfactive character

Base note

In perfumery vocabulary, Castoreum Base N2 LA 4121 is associated with leather, smoked hide, warm fur, birch-tar nuance, balsamic and animalic. Its creative role is a deep base-note material with architectural presence, giving structure and character to complex accords.

  • leather
  • smoked hide
  • warm fur
  • birch-tar nuance
  • balsamic
  • animalic
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At the perfumer’s organ

  • classical leather accords
  • chypre shadow
  • tobacco and dark-wood bases

Extraction & expression

A historical base is a finished olfactive composition created as a reusable building block. Rather than imitating one raw material literally, it delivers a complete effect, often the secret architecture behind period perfumery.

Technology recorded for this material

  • Alcohol washing dissolves the aromatic fraction in ethanol, then uses chilling and filtration to separate waxes and heavier insolubles. This is a defining route from many concretes or resinoids to absolutes.

These process marks describe selective transformation. They can support a premium grade, but do not alone certify present condition, purity or universal superiority.

Perfumer’s vocabulary

Historical base
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Archive age and character

Produced in 2003, this material is now 23 years old. It carries the character of an earlier perfumery era and invites close smelling on the blotter and in formula, where time has made its expression singular.

Material registerCatalogue identity and recorded details
HombreOils reference
MO-034
Historic catalogue name
Calchauvet
Availability
Available
Recorded date
2003-03-07
Register reference
120580
Material type
Historical base / Accord
Physical form
Not recorded
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