Immortelle absolute

Say itim-or-TEL absolute

Honeyed hay, maple syrup, dried fruit and tobacco with a curry edge.

What it is: Natural absolute from flowering tops of Helichrysum italicum.
Where it comes from: Corsica and the Balkans
When you smell it: Dry-down: what stays.
What perfumers do with it: Gives honey-maple warmth and a sunny dried-herb glow to ambers, leathers and gourmands.
Worth knowing: Its flowers keep their colour after drying, which earned the plant the name everlasting.
Known in: Sables (Annick Goutal, 1985)
Also called: Helichrysum absolute; everlasting absolute; Helichrysum italicum

Named by the house, not on the label, in 9