Tombacco Absolute
Odour
Very rich, deep-sweet and floral-herbaceous odor which displays most surprising undertones, such as a sweet-fruity, prune-like, delicately floral and woody, tobacco-hay-like note. Notes which resemble Flouve and Hay absolute, Clary Sage absolute, Cassie absolute, Carob flowers, Boronia, Ulex Europeaeus, Chioranthus Spicatus. A material of the floral tea-like odor group.
Blends well with
aldehydes
cinnamic alcohol
ionones
musks
styrax products
See also
- Boronia
- Carob flowers
- Cassie absolute
- Chioranthus Spicatus
- Clary Sage absolute
- Flouve
- Hay absolute
- Ulex Europeaeus
Used as a blend partner in
Notes
Botanical origin undisclosed by sole producer. Author suspects it may not be derived exclusively from one botanical raw material. A 50% solution in ethyl alcohol or diethyl phthalate is pourable and liquid. Very stable product.
Full Arctander text
#### "Tombacco Absolute".
The name of this material does not reveal the botanical origin, and the sole producer of the material would probably not publish such information.
**Tombacco Absolute **(so-called) is produced in Grasse (France), from one or more flowering plants of local origin by extraction the usual way. The absolute is a soft, unctuous, non-pourable, dark olive-green material with a very rich, deep- sweet and floral-herbaceous odor which displays most surprising undertones, such as a sweet- fruity, prune-like, delicately floral and woody, tobacco-hay-like note, etc. There are notes which resemble **Flouve **and **Hay**** **absolute**, Clary Sage **absolute**, Cassie **absolute**, Carob **flowers**, Boronia, Ulex Europeaeus,**** ****Chioranthus Spicatus**, etc. Indeed a material of the floral tea-like odor group.
"**Tombacco**** ****Absolute**" is used in high-class perfumes for various purposes. It imparts by itself a warmth and slightly spicy floralness which is often requested for the lipstick perfume types and other sweet-fruity fragrances. It is an excellent fixative for certain types of floral perfume bases, e.g. muguet and honeysuckle, and it has an outstanding ability of rounding off the inevitable rough notes which accompany some of the conventional synthetic materials in a perfume. Its tenacity and uniformity in odor is particularly useful in face powder and rouge perfumes where many perfume materials show surprisingly little effect and poor stability.
A 50% solution of Tombacco Absolute in ethyl alcohol or diethyl phthalate is pourable and liquid.
The product is very stable and blends excellently with the aldehydes, e.g. in the "powdery" type of perfume bases where the aliphatic aldehydes, cinnamic alcohol (or styrax products), musks and ionones form the body note, modified with woody or spicy notes.
The author is not convinced that this product is derived exclusively from one botanical raw material, but he finds it sufficiently interesting that it should be mentioned among the *processed *natural perfume materials.