View or Download Certificate of Analysis

Living Libations Cacao Absolute is a liquid manifestation of ancient chocolate rituals, elixirs, and divine chocolate reverence. Extracted from the beans of sun-dried cacao fruit, this absolute is a rich, concentrated expression of all that makes chocolate "the food of the gods."

Make your way with the Mini Puffer Dopp.

This mini-me of our dapper Dopp Bag is made of pillow-soft, water-resistant nylon and opens wide with a zippered top that makes it super spacious. It neatly nestles and organizes ten bottles in protective padded slots with room for more! At last, a perfectly pocketed, and protected way to carry and organize essential oil collections for home and away.

PROFESSIONAL SCENT STRIPS TO DECIPHER DRY DOWNS

Elevate olfactory exploration with the gold standard of aromatic assessment: professional grade, blotting scent strips. Scent assessment strips for the discerning "noses" of professional perfumers made of pure blotting paper bundled in a booklet that brings pro-calibration to your organoleptic adventures.

The key to a perfect scent testing strip is a quality of paper that is both absorbent and chemically silent. These strips are made without glues and chemicals to provide a neutral, porous landscape that allows an oil’s true phytochemical fingerprint to expand without interference. This booklet brings that professional efficiency to your home apothecary or laboratory with a tapered design for precise application, ensuring the oil saturates the tip while leaving the handle clear of aroma.

The specialized paper weight is engineered to hold the scent’s "dry down," allowing you to track the evolution of the aroma from the initial invitational top notes to the deep, enduring base notes. Pro smelling-blotters unfurl the molecular bouquet so your nose can detect the fragrant interplay.

So that you can be the Nose, Le Nez, of your creations and imbibe on essence-inhaling journeys.

In perfumery, the master perfumer became known simply as Le Nez, the Nose, a name that acknowledged a sensory gift: the ability to memorize and distinguish thousands of individual molecules in a mental library. The Noses of the world needed a dedicated tool. Before the innovation of the simple scent strip, perfumers tested their fragrant creations on lace handkerchiefs and fine linen. Yet, as the craft of perfumes blossomed and the array of materials bloomed, a neutral medium became vital.

The mouillette, named after the long strips of bread used to dip into soft-boiled eggs, was born when perfumers began using hand-cut strips of thick, cotton-rich blotting paper to "dip" into their concoctions. This shift allowed the Nose to observe the dry down objectively, free from the heat or pH of human skin, ensuring inhalations of the perfumes in progress could be properly assessed for perfection.

Specs:
Quantity: Booklet of 31 strips Paper Quality: Special quality glue-free and chemical-free absorbent paper
Design: Tapered tip for precise saturation with a clean handle for grip
Dimensions: 160 mm x 10 mm

View or Download Certificate of Analysis

The floral oasis of Osmanthus Absolute is a fantastically fragrant offering from an evergreen shrub that produces the penultimate in perfumed petals. This opulent amber-green liquid encapsulates an aroma offering that extends a fragrance of heavenly top notes of honey, sweet fruit and a fantasia of floral.

THE PASTORAL PERFUME: A HIGH-FIDELITY, ETHICAL ANIMALIC

Wool Absolute is an olfactive evolution, a rare and transformative material that wraps your formulations in a shroud of sun-warmed familiarity, serving as a molecular bridge between the kingdoms of flora and fauna. This absolute is an aqueous reclamation captured through the circular distillation of the mineral-rich waters used to gently cleanse organic sheep’s wool. A triumph of pastoral alchemy, this process transmutes a forgotten element of the harvest into a liquid gold of unparalleled tenacity for perfumery. This ethically extracted, animalic essence honors the living creature while gifting essential oil connoisseurs and perfumers a primal, pastoral musk.

For the niche perfumer, Wool Absolute offers a sophisticated, ethical animalic—a soulful alternative to historical extracts like deer musk, civet, or castoreum. In the mid-20th century, the perfume industry pivoted toward synthetic "white" musks made of petrochemical compounds designed to mimic the expensive tenacity of animalic extracts. These cloying modern synthetics lack the vital resonance of a living library and often persist as environmental pollutants. Wool Absolute offers an authentic aromatic that scents a story of the pastoral and the primal. It weaves a wooly thread through earthen accords, leather bases, and ethereal florals, returning a heritage cadence to the art of the flacon.

Beneath the top musk notes one finds fatty and boozy nuances reminiscent of aged rum and sun-dried hay, all mingled with undertones of beeswax and whispers of sun-warmed fleece. It emanates a languid amplitude that exudes a sensual and lingering dry-down, anchoring compositions with the kind of ancestral gravity perfumers crave. As Wool Absolute entwines with extraordinary fixative strength, it tethers volatile top notes, ensuring that fleeting florals and citrus sparks endure with a soft, fuzzy resonance. As a base note, it adds a tactile quality to perfumes, transforming thin formulations into high-definition inhalations offering a clean, pastoral musk that feels both ancient and avant-garde. 

View or Download Certificate of Analysis

Verdurous Violet Leaf Absolute is like fresh-cut aromatic grass – a must for your perfumer's palette! This subtle, complex oil offers refreshing notes of green grass and cucumber with a floral dry-down to delight the senses.

View or Download Certificate of Analysis

The smell of summer sunlight baked into fragrant fields is captured in the agrestic-ambrosial aroma of Sweet Vernal Grass, also known as vanilla-grass. Similar in scent and related to the sacred Sweetgrass (Hierochloë) that gets braided for burning in North America, Sweet Vernal Grass is distilled from the grassy, merry meadows of Mediterranean France, where the essence is known as Flouve. This aroma aerates the senses with herbaceous hay notes dappled in honeyed-hints of Vanilla that positively entice the spirit to come out and play.

View or Download Certificate of Analysis

The serene scent of breeze-tossed meadows and summer mown-pasturage is captured in Living Libations Hay Absolute. The smooth, comforting aroma of this agrarian absolute adds an enduring, alluring middle note in pastoral perfumes and fragrant foliaged fougère colognes. In aromatherapy blends, hay hails the serenity of the summer countryside.

For a melodious meadow scentscape, add a dash to diffusers, perfumes, blends, and bath creations or a single drop neat on the wrist for the honeyed, herbal happiness of freshly made hay.

CLARY SAGE ABSOLUTE: CLASSIC CHYPRE OF PERFUMERY

Step into the studio of the master perfumer and elevate your aromatic creations with the sumptuous, sweet amber bouquet of enchanting Clary Sage Absolute. Extracted from the vibrant flowering tops of organic Salvia sclarea harvested in the height of August when the honeyed, musky fragrance is strongest, this absolute is a legendary crown jewel in luxury scent composition. While the essential oil version offers a clarifying herbal sparkle, the absolute is multi-layered, revealing a rich, sweet, and warm balsamic tapestry where field-florals, forest-fougères, and captivating chypre notes seamlessly intertwine.

An excellent, tenacious heart note and fixative for crafting fine fragrance. Clary Sage Absolute is esteemed as a premium, natural perfume fixative, a key element of classic compositions that anchors volatile top notes, bridges the middle notes, and makes the perfume last all day. Clary Sage Absolute offers a nuanced full-bodied fragrance for formulating sophisticated chypres, traditional lavender fougères, rootsy-rogue scents, and zesty citrus colognes.

"Clary Sage Absolute is an extremely interesting perfume material, an extremely rich, delicately sweet… somewhat herbaceous odor of great tenacity. The slightly bitter undertone is utilized with good results in amber perfume bases, while the rich and sweet body blends extremely well with citrus colognes and lavender fougères."
— Steffen Arctander, Perfume and Flavor Materials of Natural Origin 

View or Download Certificate of Analysis

Black Currant absolute is a fruit-floral-fantasy of aromatic wonder. Extracted from the flowering buds of the French Ribes nigrum plant, Blackcurrant Absolute is a rare and exquisite find for perfumers, fragrance superfans, and scent-blending masters.

View or Download Certificate of Analysis

Heavenly Honeycomb Absolute is captured from the natural wax found in fragrant French honeycombs. After extracting the wax from the honeycomb, the wax is then melted and strained to flush out impurities, leaving only the purest, sweetest wax of the happy honeybee.