Deep, rich, and true-to-flower rose with a honeyed, slightly waxy sweetness and a green, spicy edge from natural phenylethyl alcohol, citronellol, and eugenol. Warmer, denser, and more tenacious than rose otto — the opening is jammy and slightly winey, drying down to a soft, powdery-waxy floral with a lingering honey-tea facet.AI · claude-opus-4-7
Perfume and Flavor Materials of Natural Origin, page 340.
Rose de Mai Absolute is an orange yellow to orange-brown viscous liquid.
It has a rich and sweet, deep-rosy, very tenacious odor.
When duly diluted, the flavor is pleasant, delicate, slightly balsamic-sweet with a faint woody-bitter undertone.
It is used very extensively in high-priced and medium-priced perfumes, particularly in floral bases, chypres, Oriental bases, etc.
The absolute can 'round off' and simultaneously 'lift' many dull or harsh-synthetic flavor compositions.
The processing of concrete into absolute is carried out in Morocco and France, to a small extent also in Italy and China.
Restricted IFRA-standard materials typically present in this NCS at the listed concentrations.
| Constituent | CAS | Typical % |
|---|---|---|
| Rhodinol | 106-22-9 | 6% |
| Geraniol | 106-24-1 | 5% |
| Eugenol | 97-53-0 | 2.3% |
| Benzaldehyde | 100-52-7 | 1% |
| Methyl Eugenol | 93-15-2 | 0.5% |
| Benzyl Alcohol | 100-51-6 | 0.1% |
| Citral | 5392-40-5 | 0.05% |
| Farnesal | 19317-11-4 | 0.01% |
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