Ingredients · Powder · dry-down

Orris butter (Iris pallida)

Say itOR-is butter

Powdery violet and cool buttery root, with carrot, cocoa and raspberry hints.

What it is

Natural material from aged, steam-distilled rhizomes of Iris pallida.

Where it comes from

Tuscany, Italy

When you smell it

Dry-down: what stays.

What perfumers do with it

Luxurious powdery heart and fixative; softens aldehydes and adds velvet to rose, woods and chypres.

Worth knowing

Rhizomes are dried and aged for years before distillation, because the violet-smelling irones form only slowly.

Also called

Orris concrete; iris butter; beurre d'iris

Named by the house, not on the label, in 116

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