Ingredients · Herbs & lavender · top note
Siberian fir needle oil
Sweet, balsamic Christmas-tree freshness; clean, soft pine-citrus.
- What it is
- Natural oil from steam-distilled needles and twigs.
- Where it comes from
- Russia (Siberia)
- When you smell it
- Top notes: when you spray it.
- What perfumers do with it
- The go-to 'Christmas tree' note for fresh, green-balsamic effects in fougères and home fragrance.
- Worth knowing
- Its signature comes largely from bornyl acetate, often about a third of the oil.
- Rules
- Limited. Pine-family oil: must be kept unoxidized (peroxide specification)
- Also called
- Abies sibirica needle oil
Named by the house, not on the label, in 13
Oud for Greatness NeoInitio · “Fir Balsam”
Opus XVI TimberAmouage · “Fir Balsam”
Club de Nuit UntoldArmaf · “Fir Resin”
Amber Oud Ruby EditionAl Haramain · “Fir Resin”
Oud MinéraleTom Ford · “Fir Balsam”
Radio BombayD.S. & Durga · “Balsam Fir Absolute”
Spicebomb Night VisionViktor&Rolf · “fir balsam”
PercivalParfums de Marly · “Fir Balsam”
Hugo ManHugo Boss · “fir balsam”
Ambery SaffronDossier · “Fir Balsam”
Musc NurāsanaMaison Crivelli · “fir balsam”
Qaed Al FursanLattafa · “Fir Balsam”Ralph's Club New YorkRalph Lauren · “fir balsam duo (resinoid and absolute)”