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Ingredients · Herbs & lavender · dry-down
Hay absolute
Sweet dried grass and coumarin with honey, tobacco and tea-like herbal nuances.
- What it is
- Natural absolute from solvent-extracted dried grasses and flowers.
- Where it comes from
- France (Alps), Eastern Europe
- When you smell it
- Dry-down: hours later.
- What perfumers do with it
- Adds natural sweet-hay warmth to fougères, tobacco, lavender and ambery accords.
- Worth knowing
- Hay's sweetness is mostly coumarin, released as the cut grass dries and its plant cells break down.
- Rules
- Limited. Coumarin content caps its dose under IFRA
- Also called
- Foin absolute; mown hay absolute
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