Ingredients · Florals · heart note

Orange flower water absolute

Earthy, honeyed orange blossom, harsher but less indolic than the absolute.

What it is

Natural absolute from solvent extract of the flower water left over from neroli distillation.

When you smell it

Heart: the first hours.

What perfumers do with it

Nuancer that adds earthy, natural depth to neroli and orange-blossom accords.

Worth knowing

It is a by-product: the water left after distilling neroli is washed with solvent to recover more scent.

Also called

Neroli water absolute; eau de fleur d'oranger absolute