Honeysuckle Absolute

#### Honeysuckle Absolute. This material is better known under the name from its producing country: "absolu de chevrefeuille". It is produced by extraction of the flowers of **Lonicera Caprifolium **and other **Lonicera**** **species. The plant is a climbing vine and is well known all over the world as far north as Scandinavia and south to South Africa, mainly in the temperate zones. The flowers are extracted with petroleum ether to yield a concrète which, in turn, is further processed into an absolute by the conventional alcohol-washing method. **Honeysuckle**** ****Absolute**** **is an orange-green to dark green or brownish, viscous liquid. Its odor is intensely sweet, fatty-floral, somewhat reminiscent of jasmin absolute from châssis and of orange flower absolute. The sweetness is not unlike the nauseating sweetness of tuberose. However, the various absolutes which are available on the market, do not truly represent the fragrance of the flower. It appears that the present extraction methods are imperfect, and it is very likely that the available honeysuckle absolutes are "compounded" from natural and synthetic perfume materials. The absolute has very little significance for the creative perfumer, but the honeysuckle type of floral fragrance is frequently used or requested by customers to the perfume houses. Small amounts of authentic **Honeysuckle**** ****Absolute**** **may be available upon demand. Flowers are available in France and England from cultivated and wild plants. Artificial honeysuckle (perfume bases) can be created from available perfume materials, e.g. allyl ionone and other ionones, benzyl isobutyl carbinol, cyclamal, cassione, hydroxycitronellalmethylanthranilate, isobutyl phenylacetate, helichrysum oil, lily-bases, narcissus bases, orange flower bases, tuberose bases, tolyl acetate, rhodinol, cinnamyl acetate, floranol, phenylethylphenylacetate, phenyl propionaldehyde, etc.