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Green Adriatic Oakmoss Absolute LA 557

Original designation: Mousse chêne ABS Adriatique verte LA 557

Evernia prunastri

Green oakmoss is perfumery forest-light at its richest: bitter greenery, wet bark, mineral air and a leathery smoke that seems to deepen for hours. It gives compositions an old-world gravity while making surrounding notes feel uncannily alive.

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€24

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Olfactive character

Base note

In perfumery vocabulary, Green Adriatic Oakmoss Absolute LA 557 is associated with intense green, damp forest, earthy, seaweed-like, smoky and leathery. Its creative role is a deep base-note material with architectural presence, giving structure and character to complex accords.

  • intense green
  • damp forest
  • earthy
  • seaweed-like
  • smoky
  • leathery
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At the perfumer’s organ

  • restore the green heart of a chypre
  • darken aromatic fougeres
  • give leather a living forest edge
  • contrast luminous citrus
  • add patina to florals

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.

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

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Archive age and character

Produced in 2002, this material is now 24 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-099
Historic catalogue name
FIRMENICH
Availability
Available
Recorded date
2002-07-03
Register reference
119035 · 00970 · 2061038100
Material type
Absolute
Physical form
Not recorded
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Weight

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