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Original designation: Muscade ESS PC LA 251
Myristica fragrans Houtt.
Nutmeg essence is warm but airborne, pairing sweet spice with dry wood, pepper and a cool terpenic lift. It creates warmth without syrup and is especially elegant in tobacco, amber and powder structures.
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1 g
€21
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In perfumery vocabulary, Nutmeg Essence PC LA 251 is associated with warm nutmeg, dry wood, sweet spice, terpenic lift, pepper and soft camphor. Its creative role is an agile top-note instrument with vivid lift, giving structure and character to complex accords.
In the organ, use it to build spiced woods, enrich amber lift and introduce tobacco accords. As top note, it offers signature rather than mere theme.
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.
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.
Collection connections
Herbs / Spices / Green
Ref. MO-175
Muscade ESS
Myristica fragrans Houtt.
Recorded historical attribution
Calchauvet
Nutmeg Essence brings warm nutmeg, dry wood and sweet spice into an agile top-note instrument with vivid lift.
Available
Herbs / Spices / Green
Ref. MO-211
Muscade ESS achat
Myristica fragrans Houtt.
Recorded historical attribution
Calchauvet
Purchased Nutmeg Essence brings warm nutmeg, dry wood and sweet spice into an agile top-note instrument with vivid lift.
Available
Herbs / Spices / Green
Ref. MO-016
Poivre noir ESS N° 2
Piper nigrum L.
Recorded historical attribution
Calchauvet
Black Pepper Essence No. 2 brings cracked pepper, terpenic lift and dry wood into an agile top-note instrument with vivid lift.
Available
Herbs / Spices / Green
Ref. MO-123
Genièvre Baie de Genièvre HE
Juniperus communis L.
Recorded historical attribution
Calchauvet
Juniper Berries Essential Oil brings gin-like berry, pine needle and pepper into an agile top-note instrument with vivid lift.
Available
