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Original designation: Muscade têtes brutes
Myristica fragrans Houtt.
Nutmeg heads suggest the dense first or heavy portion of a process stream: warm wood, spice dust and terpenic darkness. The character is less garnish than patina, ideal for aged-looking amber and tobacco structures.
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1 g
€23
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In perfumery vocabulary, Crude Nutmeg Heads is associated with dense nutmeg, warm wood, terpenic spice, earth, sweet dust and camphor trace. Its creative role is a deep base-note material with architectural presence, giving structure and character to complex accords.
In the organ, use it to build vintage spice bases, enrich woody ambers and introduce tobacco warmth. As base note, it offers signature rather than mere theme.
Fractionation isolates a particular register of a larger material. Heads and terpene cuts tend toward lift; hearts focus the central identity; body and bottom cuts gather weight, shadow and less-volatile depth. The crude grade keeps a broad, unpolished spectrum—often the most textural and revealing view of the source. A head cut favours the brightest, quickest and most volatile opening facets.
Perfumer’s vocabulary
A vintage material for contemporary creation
This 21–22-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.
Collection connections
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