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Violet "Region of Grasse" Absolute MD

Original designation: Violette Pays ABS DM

Viola odorata L.

Natural violet extraction is prized less for a confectionery flower than for its cool, watery-green tension, often shaded with moss and leather. It gives romantic violet ideas a living stem and a beautifully severe historical edge.

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€21.60

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Olfactive character

Heart note

In perfumery vocabulary, Violet "Region of Grasse" Absolute MD, is associated with cool green leaf, watery floral, cucumber skin, moss, soft leather and powdered violet. Its creative role is a richly expressive heart-note material, giving structure and character to complex accords.

  • cool green leaf
  • watery floral
  • cucumber skin
  • moss
  • soft leather
  • powdered violet
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At the perfumer’s organ

  • green floral hearts
  • violet-leather accords
  • watery bouquets
  • mossy chypres

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. Molecular or short-path distillation selects the profile under high vacuum, often refining colour and separating lighter from heavier registers.

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.

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

ABSDM / MD
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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-257
Historic catalogue name
Calchauvet
Availability
Available
Register reference
222412
Material type
Absolute
Physical form
Not recorded
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