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Mastic Absolute

Original designation: Lentisque ABS

Pistacia lentiscus

Mastic absolute smells of sunlit resin and crushed evergreen leaves: pine-bright, lemony, dry and quietly balsamic. It brings the atmosphere of Mediterranean scrub to incense, woods and aromatic colognes.

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Price per package

1 g

€13.50

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Mastic Absolute

Olfactive character

Top note

In perfumery vocabulary, Mastic Absolute is associated with green resin, pine-like, lemony, terpenic, balsamic and dry herbal. Its creative role is an agile top-note instrument with vivid lift, giving structure and character to complex accords.

  • green resin
  • pine-like
  • lemony
  • terpenic
  • balsamic
  • dry herbal
Train your nose with this material

At the perfumer’s organ

In the organ, use it to build add mediterranean resin lift, enrich brighten incense and introduce give colognes a green balsamic trail. As top note, it offers signature rather than mere theme.

  • add Mediterranean resin lift
  • brighten incense
  • give colognes a green balsamic trail
  • link citrus to woods

Extraction & expression

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.

Perfumer’s vocabulary

ABS
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A vintage material for contemporary creation

Preserved within the Maison Orris collection assembled by 2006, this material opens a door to an earlier 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-148
Historic catalogue name
Calchauvet
Availability
Available
Material type
Absolute
Physical form
Not recorded
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