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Nettle Absolute Colourless LA 5908

Original designation: Ortie ABS incolore LA 5908

Urtica dioica L.

Nettle absolute evokes chlorophyll with texture, wet stems, tea, cucumber skin and mineral earth. It supplies the part many floral accords forget: the green life that holds the bloom upright.

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€6.80

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Olfactive character

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In perfumery vocabulary, Nettle Absolute Colourless LA 5908 is associated with crushed green leaf, wet stems, tea, cucumber skin, hay and mineral earth. Its creative role is a richly expressive heart-note material, giving structure and character to complex accords.

  • crushed green leaf
  • wet stems
  • tea
  • cucumber skin
  • hay
  • mineral earth
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At the perfumer’s organ

  • living-green accords
  • rainy gardens
  • tea structures
  • floral stem effects

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. The colourless grade was created for pale formulas where the material’s effect is desired without strong colour contribution.

Technology recorded for this material

  • Decolourisation records treatment to reduce colour. It may also alter composition, so colourlessness is not presented as proof of purity.
  • 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 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-172
Historic catalogue name
Calchauvet
Availability
Available
Recorded date
2003-03-03
Register reference
120144 · 02226 · 3021059600
Material type
Absolute
Physical form
Not recorded
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