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Cistus Absolute

Original designation: Ciste ABS

Cistus ladanifer

Cistus absolute is the more luminous face of rockrose: sun-warmed resin, aromatic leaves, honeyed leather and dry wood. It can illuminate amber from within instead of simply making it heavier.

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€11.60

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Olfactive character

Base note

In perfumery vocabulary, Cistus Absolute is associated with ambery, warm resin, herbal, leathery, honeyed and woody. Its creative role is a deep base-note material with architectural presence, giving structure and character to complex accords.

  • ambery
  • warm resin
  • herbal
  • leathery
  • honeyed
  • woody
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At the perfumer’s organ

  • bring radiance to amber
  • link aromatic herbs to balsams
  • soften leather
  • give floral bases Mediterranean warmth

Extraction & expression

Absolute extraction preserves a broad, saturated portrait of the source. Traditionally, fragrant biomass is first solvent-extracted and the resulting concrete or resinoid is purified with alcohol, giving perfumers a dense material rich in less-volatile facets.

Perfumer’s vocabulary

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Archive age and character

Produced in 2005, this material is now 20–21 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-049
Historic catalogue name
Calchauvet
Availability
Available
Recorded date
2005-03-16 · 2005-10-02
Register reference
116278 · 116279 · 119545
Material type
Absolute
Physical form
Not recorded
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