Lavender Vintage
by ambrinolforthechildren
| Material | CAS # | Amount |
|---|---|---|
| OrangeOil | 68916-04-1 | 1.70 |
| Lemon Oil | 68916-89-2 | 1.50 |
| Lavender Vintage | 3.70 | |
| Geranium | 8000-46-2 | 1.70 |
| Benzoin | 84012-39-5 | 2.90 |
| Labdanum | 8016-26-0 | 33.40 |
| Patchouli | 84238-39-1 | 4.10 |
| Musk Ketone | 81-14-1 | 2.30 |
| Linalool | 78-70-6 | 8.30 |
| Phenyl Ethyl Alcohol (Pea) | 60-12-8 | 3.80 |
| Myrrh | 8016-37-3 | 8.70 |
| Heliotropin | 120-57-0 | 3.20 |
| Cinnamyl Alcohol | 104-54-1 | 8.50 |
| Ethylene Brassylate | 105-95-3 | 13.50 |
| Vanillin | 121-33-5 | 140.90 |
| Benzyl salicylate | 118-58-1 | 27.60 |
| Mysore Sandalwood | 30772-69-1 | 168.60 |
| Polysantol | 107898-54-4 | 110.50 |
| Bacdanol | 28219-61-6 | 5.50 |
| Muscone | 541-91-3 | 35.10 |
| Auranone | 8.30 | |
| Cis-3-Hexenyl Salicylate | 65405-77-8 | 16.60 |
| Dihydro Myrcenol | 18479-58-8 | 5.50 |
| Cis-3-Hexenyl Acetate | 3681-71-8 | 5.50 |
| Cis-3-Hexenol | 928-96-1 | 3.50 |
| Styrallyl Acetate | 93-92-5 | 3.50 |
| Sampaquita Givco | 69.10 | |
| Hexyl Cinnamic Aldehyde (Hca) | 101-86-0 | 30.40 |
| Champa | 40.10 | |
| So-Called C-14 | 104-67-6 | 3.30 |
| Clove | 8000-34-8 | 5.50 |
| Bergamot | 68648-33-9 | 138.20 |
| Rose Dorinia | 49.70 | |
| Coumarin | 91-64-5 | 31.70 |
| Blackcurrant Bud | 97676-19-2 | 3.60 |
| Total | 1000.00 | |
About the formula
Description
Had a quick crack tonight, drawing on a Samsara inspired fragrance with some modifications. It worked out really well. Viciously green on the open, really quite soapy, super clean and somewhat refined. I'm now curious to see what champa would do in really jasmine forward compositions where the jasmine is completely substituted out. Edit to say: "Lavender Vintage" refers to a unique gift I received of some vintage lavandin from France, extremely old and formerly unopened. It's very nice. I modified an ambreine accord to increase labdanum slightly (as per Marlo's suggestion). I'd recommend making this formula, although I know it's somewhat involved. It also involves a ton of Mysore sandalwood which I'm fortunate enough to have in ample supply, but a quality base would do here I'm sure. I'd suggest halving the amount of Cis-3-Hexenyl acetate to reduce the green punch on open and bring it up to this level if it were desired - it's really growing on me and less of an issue on skin.
I recently had the good fortune to receive a bottle of champa/champaca from India of reliable quality. It's a very interesting smell, hard to describe - it is certainly floral but has a strong leathery facet, some fruitiness and greenness, and an animalic character - overall, delicious and highly narcotic/erogenous. It almost has the character of frangipani flowers on the tree after a few hours on the strip at certain concentrations. Anyway, it's not something I've used before or have any experience with in fragrance. Does anyone have any fun suggestions for accords/blends to try with it? I have ideas inspired by the frangipani aspect to make a tropical dirty floral (like a raunchy vacation) but am curious to hear any input.
