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Hay

Ingredients · Herbs & lavender · dry-down

Hay absolute

Sweet dried grass and coumarin with honey, tobacco and tea-like herbal nuances.

What it is
Natural absolute from solvent-extracted dried grasses and flowers.
Where it comes from
France (Alps), Eastern Europe
When you smell it
Dry-down: what stays.
What perfumers do with it
Adds natural sweet-hay warmth to fougères, tobacco, lavender and ambery accords.
Worth knowing
Hay's sweetness is mostly coumarin, released as the cut grass dries and its plant cells break down.
Rules
Limited. Coumarin content caps its dose under IFRA
Also called
Foin absolute; mown hay absolute