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Animalic / Animal-derived

Horn Absolute Super

Original designation: Corne ABS Super

Horn absolute belongs to perfumery’s most radical archive: burnt keratin, dry leather, smoke, mineral dust and sulfurous animal tension. It is less a conventional note than a powerful fragment for transforming leather, fire and ritualistic accords.

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1 g

€33

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Horn Absolute Super

Olfactive character

Base note

In perfumery vocabulary, Horn Absolute Super is associated with burnt keratin, smoky, leathery, sulfurous, dry animalic and mineral. Its creative role is a deep base-note material with architectural presence, giving structure and character to complex accords.

  • burnt keratin
  • smoky
  • leathery
  • sulfurous
  • dry animalic
  • mineral
Train your nose with this material

At the perfumer’s organ

In the organ, use it to build add a burnt-horn accent to leather, enrich create mineral animalic tension and introduce darken smoke and tar accords. As base note, it offers signature rather than mere theme.

  • add a burnt-horn accent to leather
  • create mineral animalic tension
  • darken smoke and tar accords
  • give experimental bases an archaic edge

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

Preserved within the Maison Orris collection assembled by 2006, this material opens a door to an earlier 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-109
Historic catalogue name
Calchauvet
Availability
Available
Register reference
123523 · 41027 · H
Material type
Absolute
Physical form
Not recorded
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