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Vetyver Terpenes MD

Original designation: Vétiver terpènes DM

A vetiver-terpene fraction imagined as the root in lighter motion: dry wood and green lift carrying a restrained trace of smoke rather than the full oil's deepest earth.

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1 g

€16.50

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Vetyver Terpenes MD
Fraction

Olfactive character

Top note

In perfumery vocabulary, Vetyver Terpenes MD is associated with terpenic, dry woody, green, rooty, smoky nuance and lighter vetiver. Its creative role is an agile top-note instrument with vivid lift, giving structure and character to complex accords.

  • terpenic
  • dry woody
  • green
  • rooty
  • smoky nuance
  • lighter vetiver
Train your nose with this material

At the perfumer’s organ

In the organ, use it to build lifting dense vetiver bases, enrich dry green motion in citrus woods and introduce terpenic bridges between aromatics and roots. As top note, it offers signature rather than mere theme.

  • lifting dense vetiver bases
  • dry green motion in citrus woods
  • terpenic bridges between aromatics and roots

Extraction & expression

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. Molecular or short-path distillation selects the profile under high vacuum, often refining colour and separating lighter from heavier registers. The terpene designation points to a lighter, more volatile structural fraction of the source.

Perfumer’s vocabulary

Residue / résiduDM / MDTerpenes
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A vintage material for contemporary creation

This 25-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.

Material registerCatalogue identity and recorded details
Maison Orris reference
MO-256
Historic catalogue name
Calchauvet
Availability
Available
Recorded date
2001-10-20
Register reference
122384 · 32380
Material type
Fraction / Residue / Terpenes
Physical form
Liquid
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