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Herbs / Spices / Green

Buchu Essence Bottom Fraction

Original designation: Bucchu Culots ESS

Agathosma spp.

Buchu is famously strange: cassis-like fruit, mint, tea and sulfurous leaf compressed into one botanical. A bottom fraction carries that eccentricity into a darker register, ideal for accords that need life rather than prettiness.

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1 g

€9

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Buchu Essence Bottom Fraction
Fraction

Olfactive character

Base note

In perfumery vocabulary, Buchu Essence Bottom Fraction is associated with blackcurrant-like fruit, minty leaf, sulfurous green, herbal tea, catty nuance and earthy depth. Its creative role is a deep base-note material with architectural presence, giving structure and character to complex accords.

  • blackcurrant-like fruit
  • minty leaf
  • sulfurous green
  • herbal tea
  • catty nuance
  • earthy depth
Train your nose with this material

At the perfumer’s organ

In the organ, use it to build cassis accords, enrich green fruit effects and introduce herbal chypres. As base note, it offers signature rather than mere theme.

  • cassis accords
  • green fruit effects
  • herbal chypres
  • animalic fruit shadows

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. A bottom cut explores the darker, heavier and less-volatile end of the material.

Perfumer’s vocabulary

Residue / résiduBottom fraction / culot / fond
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A vintage material for contemporary creation

This 27-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-025
Historic catalogue name
Calchauvet
Availability
Available
Recorded date
1999-03-18
Register reference
126925
Material type
Fraction / Residue / Terpenes
Physical form
Liquid
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