Ingredients · Florals · dry-down

Karo karoundé absolute

Say itKAH-roh kah-roon-DAY absolute

Narcotic gardenia-jasmine with orange-blossom wax, chocolate-orange and bitter almond.

What it is

Natural absolute from solvent-extracted flowers of a wild shrub.

Where it comes from

Fouta Djallon mountains, Guinea

When you smell it

Dry-down: hours later.

What perfumers do with it

Once a rare exotic white-floral heart; now mostly replaced by natural reconstructions.

Worth knowing

Fewer than 50 kilos a year were ever made, and genuine production has effectively ceased.

Known in

Timbuktu (L'Artisan Parfumeur, 2004); Pleasures (Estée Lauder, 1995)

Also called

Leptactina senegambica absolute