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Original designation: Mousse chêne Yougo ABS Max
Evernia prunastri
Green oakmoss is perfumery forest-light at its richest: bitter greenery, wet bark, mineral air and a leathery smoke that seems to deepen for hours. It gives compositions an old-world gravity while making surrounding notes feel uncannily alive.
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€31
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In perfumery vocabulary, Yugoslav Oakmoss Absolute Max is associated with intense green, damp forest, earthy, seaweed-like, smoky and leathery. 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 restore the green heart of a chypre, enrich darken aromatic fougeres and introduce give leather a living forest edge. As base note, it offers signature rather than mere theme.
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.
A vintage material for contemporary creation
This 23-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
Moss / Lichen
Ref. MO-101
Mousse chêne Maroc ABS verte
Evernia prunastri
Recorded historical attribution
Calchauvet
Green Moroccan Oakmoss Absolute brings intense green, damp forest and earthy into a deep base-note material with architectural presence.
Available
Moss / Lichen
Ref. MO-099
Mousse chêne ABS Adriatique verte LA 557
Evernia prunastri
Recorded historical attribution
FIRMENICH
Green Adriatic Oakmoss Absolute LA 557 brings intense green, damp forest and earthy into a deep base-note material with architectural presence.
Available
Moss / Lichen
Ref. MO-177
Mousse chêne ABS
Evernia prunastri
Recorded historical attribution
Calchauvet
Oakmoss Absolute brings earthy, woody and mossy into a deep base-note material with architectural presence.
Available
Moss / Lichen
Ref. MO-071
Mousse chêne ABS DEC NB LA 5026, non IFRA
Evernia prunastri
Recorded historical attribution
Calchauvet
Decolorized Oakmoss Absolute NB LA 5026, Non-IFRA brings mossy, dry woody and marine into a deep base-note material with architectural presence.
Available
