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Pine Needles Absolute Colourless (MD4)

Original designation: Pin aiguilles ABS incolore (DM4)

Pinus spp.

Pine needle absolute offers the cool green breath of a conifer canopy with more body than a fleeting terpene flash. The colourless designation suggests a visually edited material; its exact aromatic character still belongs to the individual extract.

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€10.80

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Olfactive character

Top note

In perfumery vocabulary, Pine Needles Absolute Colourless (MD4) is associated with fresh pine, green, terpenic, balsamic, cool and dry woody. Its creative role is an agile top-note instrument with vivid lift, giving structure and character to complex accords.

  • fresh pine
  • green
  • terpenic
  • balsamic
  • cool
  • dry woody
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At the perfumer’s organ

  • open a conifer forest accord
  • freshen incense
  • give fougeres needle clarity
  • contrast sweet balsams

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

  • Molecular distillation uses high vacuum and a short vapour path to separate selected fractions with limited thermal exposure, an advanced route for controlling difficult aromatic materials.
  • Decolourisation records treatment to reduce colour. It may also alter composition, so colourlessness is not presented as proof of purity.

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 1991, this material is now 35 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-208
Historic catalogue name
Calchauvet
Availability
Available
Recorded date
1991-04-11
Register reference
119114 · 01096 · H
Material type
Absolute
Physical form
Not recorded
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