A dry, earthy mossy note with a distinctive forest-floor character — damp bark, lichen, and green woodiness. The co-distillate form is smoother and less phenolic than crude oakmoss absolute, retaining the signature chypre backbone with a softer, cleaner facet.AI · claude-opus-4-7
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Perfume and Flavor Materials of Natural Origin, page 282.
Oakmoss Absolute Co-Distillates are pale yellow or almost colorless, oily or viscous liquids, having various types of oakmoss odor.
They are offered with the advantage of great solubility.
The odor strength also varies according to the amount of odorless solvent left in the distillate.
The co-distillates find application in all kinds of fougères, colognes, chypres, modern blends, aldehydic bases, bouquets, forest notes, tabac perfumes, and men’s fragrances.
Co-distillation of an oakmoss absolute with an odorless, high-boiling solvent, e.g. ethylene glycol, glycerine, isopropyl myristate.