Note · Resins and balsams
Labdanum
Cistus ladanifer
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Rockrose is a scrubland shrub whose leaves coat themselves, in the heat, with a sticky gum: labdanum. Processed, it gives an ambery, balsamic, almost leathery and animalic material, a pillar of the amber accord and of chypres.
What it brings
A dark amber depth that gives the base body and lasting power.
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Material profile
- Family
- Resins and balsams
- Nature
- Natural material
- Botanical name
- Cistus ladanifer
- Origin
- Andalusia, Portugal, Crete.
- How it is obtained
- Volatile solvent extractionSteam distillation
- On Volute
- 68 fragrances