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Rectified Nordic Birch Essence ( Yellow / Black)

Original designation: Bouleau nordique ESS rectifiée (jaune / Noir )

Betula spp.

Rectified birch essence evokes smoke held inside pale wood: tar, leather, phenolic fire and a cool medicinal edge. It is a decisive material for leather and charred-wood structures, and the colour variants should be treated as catalogue distinctions rather than standardized grades.

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1 g

€11.20

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Olfactive character

Base note

In perfumery vocabulary, Rectified Nordic Birch Essence ( Yellow / Black) is associated with smoky, leathery, tar-like, dry wood, phenolic and wintergreen nuance. Its creative role is a deep base-note material with architectural presence, giving structure and character to complex accords.

  • smoky
  • leathery
  • tar-like
  • dry wood
  • phenolic
  • wintergreen nuance
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At the perfumer’s organ

  • build Russian-leather effects
  • smoke woods and tea
  • give chypres a tarry spine
  • add charred contrast to florals

Extraction & expression

An essence belongs to the more volatile, mobile side of the palette. Depending on the botanical, it may come from distillation or (in explicitly expressed citrus grades) from mechanical pressing, bringing immediacy and lift.

Technology recorded for this material

  • Rectification is a further distillation or fractionation step used to adjust composition and remove selected unwanted portions.

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

Preserved in the HombreOils collection since before 2006, this material is at least 20 years old. It offers a rare encounter with the textures and signatures of an earlier perfumery era, ready to explore on the blotter and in new compositions.

Material registerCatalogue identity and recorded details
HombreOils reference
MO-215
Historic catalogue name
Calchauvet
Availability
Available
Register reference
118476 · 135
Material type
Essential oil / Essence
Physical form
Liquid
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