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Peru Balsam Residues "R"

Original designation: Pérou résidus "R"

Myroxylon balsamum var. pereirae

A Peru balsam residue emphasizes the darker wake of the material: smoked resin, leather, cinnamon bark and a restrained vanilla warmth. It can make an amber feel excavated rather than newly assembled.

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1 g

€13

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Peru Balsam Residues "R"
Fraction

Olfactive character

Base note

In perfumery vocabulary, Peru Balsam Residues "R" is associated with dark balsamic, smoky, leathery, cinnamic, vanillic and earthy. Its creative role is a deep base-note material with architectural presence, giving structure and character to complex accords.

  • dark balsamic
  • smoky
  • leathery
  • cinnamic
  • vanillic
  • earthy
Train your nose with this material

At the perfumer’s organ

In the organ, use it to build add burnt-sugar shadow to amber, enrich deepen tobacco and introduce give leather sweet resin. As base note, it offers signature rather than mere theme.

  • add burnt-sugar shadow to amber
  • deepen tobacco
  • give leather sweet resin
  • anchor dark gourmand accords

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 residue is the remaining, lower-volatility register after another separation—valuable for shadow, texture and unusual weight.

Perfumer’s vocabulary

Residue / résidu
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A vintage material for contemporary creation

This 21-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-207
Historic catalogue name
Calchauvet
Availability
Available
Recorded date
2005-04-25
Register reference
122166 · 31972 · RES.PEROU
Material type
Fraction / Residue / Terpenes
Physical form
Liquid
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