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Aroma Chemicals / Bases

Trimethylpyridine

Original designation: Pyridine triméthylée

A powerful nitrogenous modifier for daring trace effects—dry, smoky and tobacco-like, with the ability to make leather or roasted themes feel startlingly real.

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1 g

€8.50

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Trimethylpyridine

Olfactive character

Top note

In perfumery vocabulary, Trimethylpyridine is associated with pyridinic, dry smoky, tobacco-like, leathery, roasted and sharp green. Its creative role is an agile top-note instrument with vivid lift, giving structure and character to complex accords.

  • pyridinic
  • dry smoky
  • tobacco-like
  • leathery
  • roasted
  • sharp green
Train your nose with this material

At the perfumer’s organ

In the organ, use it to build trace tobacco realism, enrich smoky leather tension and introduce roasted and fermented nuances. As top note, it offers signature rather than mere theme.

  • trace tobacco realism
  • smoky leather tension
  • roasted and fermented nuances

Extraction & expression

Aroma chemicals are the precision instruments of the organ. Their value is structural as much as olfactive: they can sharpen an outline, create space, bridge naturals or sustain an effect with repeatable clarity.

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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-248
Historic catalogue name
Calchauvet
Availability
Available
Material type
Aroma chemical
Physical form
Not recorded
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