ROSE CENTIFOLIA PAYS ABS

Floral, green, spicy, fruity, sweet, honey like.
Rare elixir, very sensual, deeply rich and floral, it evokes all values of luxury. Compared to Rosa damascena, Rosa centifolia is sweeter, and honey-like.

Used in Fine Fragrance, it gives a sweet floral rosy note with honey undertones. Very complex and long-lasting.
Used in all kind of applications, this exquisite absolute embodies the essence of a tradition. Through its Naturals Center of Excellence in Grasse, the historical birthplace of perfumery, Firmenich has played a central role in the revival of Rose de Mai cultivation and extraction in the region over the past five years.

A primary extraction with volatile solvent on fresh or dry biomass yields to a Concrete or Resinoid.
The Absolute is obtained via a second purification step in the process.

Extracted part: flowers.
300 flowers app. harvested in 1 Kg.
2 000 flowers app. harvested per hour per person.
200 000 flowers app. to produce 1 Kg of absolute.
600 kg of flowers are necessary to obtain 1 Kg of absolute.