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Rectified Nordic Birch Essence ( Yellow / Black)

Original designation: Bouleau nordique ESS rectifiée (jaune / Noir )

Betula spp.

Rectified birch essence evokes smoke held inside pale wood: tar, leather, phenolic fire and a cool medicinal edge. It is a decisive material for leather and charred-wood structures, and the colour variants should be treated as catalogue distinctions rather than standardized grades.

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1 g

€14

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Rectified Nordic Birch Essence ( Yellow / Black)

Olfactive character

Base note

In perfumery vocabulary, Rectified Nordic Birch Essence ( Yellow / Black) is associated with smoky, leathery, tar-like, dry wood, phenolic and wintergreen nuance. Its creative role is a deep base-note material with architectural presence, giving structure and character to complex accords.

  • smoky
  • leathery
  • tar-like
  • dry wood
  • phenolic
  • wintergreen nuance
Train your nose with this material

At the perfumer’s organ

In the organ, use it to build build russian-leather effects, enrich smoke woods and tea and introduce give chypres a tarry spine. As base note, it offers signature rather than mere theme.

  • build Russian-leather effects
  • smoke woods and tea
  • give chypres a tarry spine
  • add charred contrast to florals

Extraction & expression

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.

Perfumer’s vocabulary

ESS
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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-215
Historic catalogue name
Calchauvet
Availability
Available
Register reference
118476 · 135
Material type
Essential oil / Essence
Physical form
Liquid
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