Deep, buttery-powdery iris with a distinctive cold, rooty violet character. Opens with an earthy, slightly waxy facet before revealing a soft, suede-like floral warmth with subtle woody undertones. Refined, quiet, and unmistakably orris.AI · claude-opus-4-7
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Perfume and Flavor Materials of Natural Origin, page 305.
The resulting absolute is a water-white or very pale yellow, oily liquid.
The concréte oil is not soluble in ethyl alcohol at room temperature.
Orris Absolute has an extremely delicate, sweet-floral, yet somewhat woody odor which appears very weak at first, but later, or on dilution, displays its full and impressive strength and diffusion.
In extreme dilutions, the flavor becomes sweet-fruity and reminiscent of raspberries.
Orris Absolute is mainly used in perfumes, and only in high-class lotion types or similar bases where the price does not prohibit its application.
Orris Absolute is occasionally used in trace amounts in raspberry, strawberry, peach and other fruit flavors, and in rum flavor.
Orris Absolute is produced from the 'concréte' oil of orris by alkali washing in ethyl ether solution to remove the myristic acid which amounts to 85-90% of the 'concréte' oil.