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Cognac oil

Say itKOHN-yak oil

Fruity grape and cognac with fatty, green, winey-yeasty facets.

What it is

Natural oil from steam-distilled wine lees (spent yeast sediment).

Where it comes from

France and other wine regions

When you smell it

Top notes: the first minutes.

What perfumers do with it

Gives a boozy, fruity lift to fougères, tobacco and gourmand accords; the green grade is rawer.

Worth knowing

It is distilled from the yeasty sediment left after wine-making, not from grapes or brandy.

Also called

Wine lees oil; green cognac oil; white cognac oil