Ingredients · Florals · dry-down

Cassie absolute

Say itKAS-ee absolute

Warm, powdery-violet mimosa with anisic, leathery and cucumber-green facets.

What it is

Natural absolute from solvent-extracted cassie flowers.

Where it comes from

Egypt, India; historically Grasse

When you smell it

Dry-down: what stays.

What perfumers do with it

Rich, animalic-powdery floral naturalizer; deeper and heavier than mimosa.

Worth knowing

The molecule farnesol is named after this plant, itself named for Rome's Farnese Gardens.

Known in

Une Fleur de Cassie (Frédéric Malle, 2000)

Rules

Limited. Capped via restricted trace constituents (IFRA Annex I)

Also called

Acacia (Vachellia) farnesiana absolute