Genet “Signature” Absolute 50% TEC

Genet “Signature” Absolute 50% TEC, An Indepth Look:

The perfumer's “absolue de genêt”, or Broom Absolute, is extracted from the so-called Spanish Broom, Spartium Junceum. The small decorative shrub grows wild (and is also cultivated) in the south of France, Spain, and Italy. Production of broom absolute from petroleum ether concrète is almost exclusively carried out in the Grasse area in France.

Broom absolute is [a] dark brown, semi-solid or viscous liquid, with an intensely sweet, floral-haylike fragrance. The deep herbaceous-coumarinic background has great tenacity. The honey-rose notes are particularly useful in certain types of rose bases, tuberose, cassie, mimosa, violet, honeysuckle, etc. It blends excellently with ionones, vetiver, castoreum, etc. in “tabac” notes, and it is generally useful in modern aldehydic perfume types, green notes, etc.

[Despite the coumarinic note, Broom absolute contains mere traces of coumarin and is mainly composed of a variety of acids. -- J. Frater]

^{S. Arctander. Perfume and flavor Materials of Natural Origin, Carol Stream: Allured Publishing Corporation, 2008, pp. 105–106.}