I am still on the hunt for my perfect leather accord, but this is a standout. Based on the description, I expected a very clean leather that could be central to a summer fragrance. While fantastic, Royal Leather is not what I expected. It exudes warm spice and tobacco thickness. It alludes to cool weather. I'm still on the hunt for that modern clean, cold, papery, airy, slightly waxy leather. One like a new couch in a furniture store.
Almost a fragrance its own. Not for the hottest weather, very good for masculine fragrances.
I don't usually leave thumbs down, and absolutely love everything else I've bought here, but this one was a doozy. A blast of indolic stinkiness followed by a weak peony scent which lingered for about 10 minutes on a scent strip before fading away.
There could be a number of things at play here, since others have liked it. There is a chance I received a bad batch, but I do also have a wierd sense of smell thanks to 20 years of exposure to formaldehyde. I also am one of those people who can't smell Ambroxan, not sure if that is related, but perhaps there is a genetic component at work.
I was very surprised by the very neroli facette of your base, which doesn’t match the description I had from the osmoteque which is in French sorry for this : bouquet floral construit autour des methyl ionone à l’odeur poudrée évoquant la note fraîche et très montante d’une fleur de jasmin ou d’une rose. Are you sure it is no confusion with another De Laire base?
Hi Philippe, there were multiple Bouvardia bases back then. Bouvardia was classed by De Laire as a jasmine / rose like material and there is certainly a large neroli facet also which is why it worked so well in L'Origan where orange blossom was so important. There was also the great Bouvardia 125 from Roure which is a methyl ionone based floral. We don't stock it at the moment but we are planning to do so.
Absolutely beautiful. Rich, powdery, creamy, elegant, but really you just need to smell it to appreciate it. I took a single sniff and immediately started building a new fragrance around it. Will be purchasing in a larger size.
This is a work of genius. I'm no perfumer, but this smells miles beyond anything I've ever smelled in any of the finest stores anywhere. Truly magical.
This recreation is a work of art. A legendary masterpiece recreated. I found a vintage 15 ml Chanel bottle, added 5 grams of compound five, remade the Chanel label. I dabbed one dab on my shirt today and could smell it all day at work. The intoxicating aroma surrounded me with its scent. The magic of Chanel N. 5 lives on. Thank you Fraterworks for making this available.
The fragrance is beautiful - lighter than my orange blossom absolutes.
Lovely in cocktails and I can’t wait to try it on Baklava!
Orcanox is my favourite ambrox super replacement, it is more elegant and smooth comparing to Ambroxan and Ambroxide! Less animatic and efficient. It takes less time to blend I. With the ingredients too! Prefect material from my point of view and will get more for sure!
I have been searching for natural honeysuckle for ages, and once tracked down, it was exorbitant. Now I have found another rarity in Fraterwork's offering. This is like putting your nose into honeysuckle on a still summer evening. Incredibly photo realistic, and a no-brainer at this price. My search is over.
Makes it quick and easy to take care of functional concerns, so you can focus more time on the scents.
It's clear and transparent, useful in light composition when you want ambrox molecule's effect rather than its scent.
I absolutely cannot wait to try this raw material in some compositions. Good work sourcing this.
What begins in a radiant way reveals the presence of a delicate powdery nuance later and then, more than a few hours later, the welcome fuzzy nearness of an animal, and it's just enough; never too much. These are a few of my favorite things, this powder and this animal, and the base here positions them in perfect harmony. My client wanted something luminous, with "a little bit of musk and a lot of sweetness," and my brand is about the reclamation of our very human animal, so I reach for this in order to incorporate a discreetly animalic touch without entering an explicitly animalic territory, in a perfume composition which must be sweet and smiling, also. The honey concept is a tricky one, as honey from one harvest to another is never quite the same, I think, but I do believe I've found the best honey base on the market right here. What's more, Jamie was not only understanding of my desire to combine two orders before fulfilling them, but proactive about including a third order in the shipment before I even requested it! I couldn't be happier. Thank you, Jamie, and thanks, also, to everyone at Fraterworks! Looking forward, happy fuming!
This stuff is like ethyl vanillic ambroxan. Extremely smooth, with insane ambroxan performance. What a beautiful ingredient!
First off, let me just say Jamie at FraterWorks has done a simply stellar job curating a selection of hard to source materials. These materials arrive well packaged with zero leaks (from NZ to USA!), and with “Wow, that’s fast!” shipping. So, thank you, Jamie. Now, on with the Fleur de Cuir show…beautiful. The duo distillation of cedar and Osmanthus is as ingenious as it is rewarding. There is a leather note that leans animalic/castoreum as well as an oud note that immediately hinted to memory, Firmenich’s Oud Anokha Base. There is a very soft undertone of fruit from the Osmanthus that lies between the wood grain. The cedar/cedrol aroma really comes through creating this interesting dry, leathery cedar aroma that reminds one of a finer, more natural Kephalis and Vertofix Coeur. Like I said, complex. This raw material is a true gem for the senses!
After trying many different molecular distilled patchoulis this is by far my favourite one. Blends wonderfully in the concentrate and very forgiving even in you add more, which I tend to do.
Obviously there is an issue with compliance with this oil but for personal projects or simply as a reference this is just sublime.
I’m having to rethink most of my previous formulas, this is so good
This one completely caught me off guard. An incredibly delightful absolute that dances with an aliveness that I rarely encounter in absolutes. Out of the bottle this is juicy apricot, bright osmanthus flowers, set against sheer and subtle clean leather notes. Definitely deserving of its "Gold" status.
I can confidently say that this is absolutely the best Sambac absolute that I have ever encountered. This aromatically flawless absolute accurately captures the fresh and breezy qualities of living jasmine sambac flowers whilst being very potent and not having any of the off notes or dead flower qualities found in many of the other sambac absolutes I have tried. Clean, elegant, slightly green, and perfectly creamy sweet.
I'm working on a few green compositions this month and thought I'd pick up a sample of Liffarome to play with. It has lovely grassy pear facets with something just a little more deep than just hexenyl acetate. Recommended.