Cognac oil

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Fruity grape and cognac with fatty, green, winey-yeasty facets.

What it is: Natural oil from steam-distilled wine lees (spent yeast sediment).
Where it comes from: France and other wine regions
When you smell it: Top notes: when you spray it.
What perfumers do with it: Gives a boozy, fruity lift to fougères, tobacco and gourmand accords; the green grade is rawer.
Worth knowing: It is distilled from the yeasty sediment left after wine-making, not from grapes or brandy.
Also called: Wine lees oil; green cognac oil; white cognac oil

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