7 reviews for Civet Absolute INDIA
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23rd April at 4.10pm: Unfortunately, regarding the message below and lead-times, I called it wrong. My apologies. As such all orders placed upto the 15th - and about half of those placed on the 16th, will leave by Friday 26th. On Thursday no collections are possible by couriers as it's a national holiday here in Italy. On the subject of SDS, the company handling this for us, has written to me today, acknowledged more are owed to us (submitted in December and January) and that they are now working on producing the final lot of SDS for us. This includes Plantation, Wild and Jungle ouds that many of you ask about. Next, I have spent the past year (literally) sampling ambrette seed e.o and absolutes from various producers and resellers to no avail. They all smell really poor compared to what I carried. They are too nutty, too fatty, too vegetative, too lacklustre, falling away very fast, and really dont showcase the musky textured qualities of a top ambrette properly. Even the big naturals brands are all obtaining and selling sucky poor man's ambrette at the moment. Written as I have decided to move over to carrying ambrette CO2 and this will be in place until I can find a wow absolute and E.O again. CO2 is still not on par with what I had, but it offers a far better profile on the musky front than the abs and e.os in the market place right now. This CO2 will be in stock by early May. Next, we will put all the non.eu destinations we can supply to, back on our website on May 6th - so U.A.E, UK, Switzerland, Saudi Arabia, Singapore and Australia. On the new product front, the next batch of 10 superstars will be released on the 20th May - lots more roses planned. And I will get started on expanding the bulk wholesale side of the business very soon - more aromatics and offered in larger weights as standard - likely upto a kilo on the website. Ok I will write again by Monday. Thank you, Adam : )
19th April at 5pm: Quick update to first say I have now added the following big ticket aromatics to the website: Italian Oakwood Absolute, Organic Georgian Rose Raduga Otto and finally Persian P.E.A Intense Rose (Otto). Orders, as I type with exception to 3 orders, every order placed up until the 11th has left with the couriers. By Monday 22nd, all orders placed up until the 14th will leave with couriers and I will type again across Monday with another update. Bulk Wholesale orders that still need to be manually typed and billed will be done so by Tuesday 23rd. Thank you, Adam : )
15th April at 5.30pm: Today I am running behind but I am happy to say that along with all E.U countries, we now can supply to the USA again. USA switched on just now and the Mysore Sandalwood 4 year aged E.O offer is extended for a week for USA clients to enjoy too. By Wednesday 17th all orders from the 9th April will be dispatched with DHL. Although we are rather full-on with orders at the moment, the lead time will improve significantly very shortly. Reason being since reopening the focus has been solely on building stocks up and we have staff coming on as well now (at last!). I will write again on Wednesday regarding lead times. This week my tasks are to get on top of the SDS we are owed by the company we have employed to handle this. And other than this I am adamant I will update the bulk wholesale list with more aromatics. Finally for now - the following 11 aromatics have recently been added to the site - French Rose Geranium E.O, Sandalwood Mysore E.O 4 Year Aged, Tuscan Olive Leaf Absolute, Mitti Attar (Petrichor), Persian Queen of Roses (Otto), Tomato Leaf Absolute, Oud Assami Skank E.O V.1, South Indian 10 Year Aged Vetiver E.O, Bengali Nagarmotha E.O, VIolet Leaf Concrete, Italian Helichrysum Absolute S.G. Thank you, Adam : )
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€20.00 – €1,342.00
Adam Michael has this to say “This Civet Absolute is obtained from Indian material (not African), collected from the secretions of the female and male civet cats. The material is a solid waxy mass, golden brown in colour which quickly becomes pourable with gentle warmth. The initial aroma is overbearing, raw, vile and slightly faecal. However, well diluted the aroma of civet absolute is entirely different, displaying musky, smoky and heightened sweet animalic notes of sublime tenacity that in trace amounts will add soft velvet, animalic and musk qualities to many perfume bouquets.
This material rarely appears for sale as a true natural, I think at the time of writing (06/10/2015) we are the only business offering this online within Europe, which is largely because most perfumers choose the synthetic substitutes, entirely animal friendly and more cost effective compared to the natural, but unfortunately not on par with the real thing.”
Scientific Name: Viverra civeta
Origin: India
Wholesale weights (all prices excluding vat): 250g = 1100 Euros.
Unfortunately, this material cannot be shipped to Australia or America
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Edward Chiu (verified owner) –
This civet absolute is absolutely stunning. Alone it’s fecal, but it gives a powerful effect to any blend after dilution, making it more “multi-dimension” in a positive way. As little as 0.005% in a perfume, you can smell the difference.
farman1979 (verified owner) –
A must for any floral attar.
Also, more cruicually it lifts up all the top and middle notes in any concoction. I can literally now smell all the subtle notes even in a very complex and powerful attar I made.
Caution: One needs to be very careful with it though. Just a trace amount (say a pinhead/paperclip amount) is more than enough for a 3ml amount. If you let your attar age, it will make it even better.
Charalambos Charalambous (verified owner) –
I bought synthetic civet just to understand what is this material all are talking about that create miracles in attars and olfactory perfumes… But this real civet absolute is truly Amazing!nothing like the synthetic.i actually find it sweet and musky and smokey..It’s a true gift and worth every effort that Hermitage company offer this to us. Dont miss it.
Robert (verified owner) –
I would love to stash a larger quantity of this away, it’s absolute magic! What this does to a perfume is phenomenal, it adds multidimensionality, warmth and depth although it does make me feel quite nauseous handing it raw I had to wait a week after diluting it before going back to it.
KimRiccelli (verified owner) –
On the strip it smells like strong soft-ripened sheep’s cheese (perhaps I’m alone in enjoying evaluating this material undiluted? ;D ) There is a creamy sweetness behind the more cheesy and animalic aspects that I find quite charming, in its own raunchy way.
Blended, it’s something else entirely! It’s as if it creates a frame or context around which all other scent notes POP and are elevated. It adds dimensionality and character to most accords, heightening their presence and making them feel more alive, in the literal sense.
amine sef (verified owner) –
How to describe this..? I have the synthetic version, and it smells nothing like real deal. The synthetic one does smell terrible i have to say. To me, this absolute does not really smell fecal or disgusting at all. It almost smells like rancid butter, very intense. Must dilute and use tiny amounts, but glad i got this. I will never use the synthetic one again.
Carlos silva (verified owner) –
What a wonderfull asfixianting , routh cheese and fecal odour…hmmMmMmmm.So beautyfull but use it diluted otherwise….