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Animalic / Animal-derived

Castoreum Absolute R515

Original designation: Castoréum ABS R515

Castor spp.

Castoreum absolute is leather with a pulse: smoke, phenolic warmth, tobacco and a strange dried-fruit softness moving beneath the animalic core. In traces it can make an accord feel less manufactured and more like an object worn for decades.

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1 g

€49

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Castoreum Absolute R515

Olfactive character

Base note

In perfumery vocabulary, Castoreum Absolute R515 is associated with leathery, smoky, phenolic, animalic, tobacco-like and dried-fruit nuance. Its creative role is a deep base-note material with architectural presence, giving structure and character to complex accords.

  • leathery
  • smoky
  • phenolic
  • animalic
  • tobacco-like
  • dried-fruit nuance
Train your nose with this material

At the perfumer’s organ

In the organ, use it to build build supple leather, enrich animate chypre bases and introduce add smoke to tobacco. As base note, it offers signature rather than mere theme.

  • build supple leather
  • animate chypre bases
  • add smoke to tobacco
  • give woods an animal pulse
  • deepen amber

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.

Perfumer’s vocabulary

ABS
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A vintage material for contemporary creation

This 24-year vintage opens a door to another era of perfumery. An uncommon voice from legendary perfumery heritage, made for mature, daring compositions—a scent from the past, ready to inspire something entirely new.

Material registerCatalogue identity and recorded details
Maison Orris reference
MO-031
Historic catalogue name
Calchauvet
Availability
Available
Recorded date
2002-04-23
Register reference
133234 · 114563 · 2021008800
Material type
Absolute
Physical form
Not recorded
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