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Original designation: Opoponax ESS Super
Opoponax glows rather than sparkles: a sweet, smoky balsam with leathery warmth and a softly animalic depth that gives amber and incense their inner fire.
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1 g
€12.50
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In perfumery vocabulary, Opoponax Essence Super is associated with sweet balsamic, smoky, resinous, warm, leathery and soft animalic. 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 amber and incense foundations, enrich smoked leather and chypre depth and introduce warm resin bridges beneath florals and spices. As base 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
This 20-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
Woods / Roots / Resins / Balsams
Ref. MO-242
Tolu ESS Super
Recorded historical attribution
Calchauvet
Tolu Balsam Essence Super brings sweet balsamic, vanillic and cinnamon-like into a deep base-note material with architectural presence.
Available
Woods / Roots / Resins / Balsams
Ref. MO-205
Pérou RDE ABS DM EP
Myroxylon balsamum var. pereirae
Recorded historical attribution
Calchauvet
Peru Balsam Absolute Resinoid DM EP brings vanillic, cinnamic and sweet balsamic into a deep base-note material with architectural presence.
Available
Woods / Roots / Resins / Balsams
Ref. MO-215
Bouleau nordique ESS rectifiée (jaune / Noir )
Betula spp.
Recorded historical attribution
Calchauvet
Rectified Nordic Birch Essence ( Yellow / Black) brings smoky, leathery and tar-like into a deep base-note material with architectural presence.
Available
Woods / Roots / Resins / Balsams
Ref. MO-239
Cèdre Texas Regular ESS (Batch A)
Juniperus ashei
Recorded historical attribution
Calchauvet
Texas Cedarwood Regular Essence (Batch A) brings dry cedar, pencil-like and smoky into a deep base-note material with architectural presence.
Available
