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Siberian Fir CO2 (SELECT)
Adam Michael has this to say “Opening the cap for the first time, this Siberian Fir CO2 really managed to wow me. The scent oozes Christmas, just like smelling a real Christmas tree. At the same time I can’t help feel the scent is reminiscent to the taste of spruce candies, slightly balsamic sweet but also with a bitter needle aspect. My partner tells me this reminds her somehow of a very hot Mediterranean scrub, even though such a scent doesn’t really belong in a Mediterranean scrub! This said this Siberian Fir does produce such intense, warm, aromatically charged impressions with good persistence throughout, and that is really something considering it is chiefly a top note.
Comparable also aromatically to a mix of cypress lusitanica, blue hemlock absolute and cassis absolute, with a big dosage of sugar for good measure and without any rough edges at all. A sweet wood base note.
I can say with certainty that aromatically this is not like any other fir material, making all its counterparts look positively drab by comparison. Siberian Fir CO2 is a fulsome, yummy resinous, zappy masterpiece with trace notes of runner beans like those found within Aleppo pine.
Works well in gourmands, pair’s lovely with davana, add traces in florals, blackcurrant materials and of course good for building Mediterranean scrub notes.”
Botanical Name: Abies sibirica
Origin: Russian material – produced in Australia
Alcohol Soluble: Yes
Oil Soluble: Yes
Select/Total Extract: Select
5 reviews for Siberian Fir CO2 (SELECT)
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Sarah J (verified owner) –
This oil is so beautiful it takes me on a journey! The first inhale is a like drinking a delicious warming honey piney resin mead, as it’s aroma reaches my tongue there is a hint of ocean saltiness that makes my tongue tingle and a orange candy/gentle ginger note that makes my mouth water, then before I know it I’m in a clearing amongst a forest where the breeze whips fresh green pine needles into my face, the fleeting coolness freezes a single tear on an eyelash, goosebumps of feeling I’m in a wilderness as the wind howls directions as it seeks it’s next valley, then it’s the ozone-y smell before it snows – you know when the birds stop singing to seek shelter! It takes me to a place before I began, to a place where I can smile, sing and cry at the same time, the space between an old breath and a new, then before I know it I’m sunbathing in it’s comforting warming honey pine resin glow being kissed.
I keep being drawn to it’s complex haunting subtle beauty, the journey it takes me between it’s warm and it’s cool, then left with a calm stillness – where alone is not lonely but where all of the senses are listening to the forest-mountain-river-ocean-wind music. Leave the bottle open at night for amazing adventure dreams! The days this oil seeks a friend try with Hermitage Yarrow CO2 and Ylang Ylang absolute – or a Criste Marine!
Kristina M (verified owner) –
I was born in Lithuania and it was still Soviet Union by those times.
When i was child i used to go for a walk with my parents to forests where mountains of pine trunks were laying on the musky forest carpet.
As a curious girl i loved to smell, touch and taste almost everything. So i used to touch those trunks and their pine cones as well. My hands were sticky with their resin that, of course, was not even easy to wash from :D, :D, 😀 . That was a kind of a fairy tale experience for a child though.
And so, believe me, the smell of this Siberian Fir is exactly, and not less, the same !!!
Intense, resinous, woody, balsamic absolutely a Real thing !
It is my childhood scent, and i am so happy i found it again – this time in a bottle, comfortably sitting at home in Milano, but if i close my eyes and smell it – i’m nowhere else but back into those wonderful forests with high pines trying to reach the sun, that carpet of green musk with mountains of trunks waiting to be loaded on a truck to be shipped to different factories for further transformation and production of different kind of goods.
It is a must for one of my future fragrances.
Adam, Eleonora – thanks again 🙂 🙂 🙂
Kristina M (verified owner) –
I just wanted to add a few words about Siberians Fir aromatherapeutic properties as long as a natural perfumery is a medicine as well. So:
Siberian fir contains bornyl acetate that is an analgesic with a highly effective anti-inflammatory property. With its antiperspirant property, it can also work well as a deodorant. Contains Camphene that has an incredibly big list of therapeutic uses, which includes anti-fungal, antioxidant, analgesic, antibiotic, and cytotoxic properties and camphene works together with vitamin C (which fir is also rich in) to soothe nerves, which may result in reduced blood pressure and inflammation. Its cytotoxicity means that it has great potential when it comes to helping fight cancer.
In a fir essential oil study published in the US National Library of Medicine, the oil was found to be active against cancerous tumors. According to the study, the use of this oil led to a decrease in cellular glutathione content and an increase in reactive oxygen species production. It was concluded that this essential oil has promising properties that could potentially fight cancer.
It relieves aches, detoxifies the body, boosts metabolism, relieves respiratory issues.
Try it as well in an oil burner or let it evaporate in sauna, or add it to a bath, or put a few drops into your diffuser and allow it to help you relax, release your tension, and renew your energy.
Add it to dead sea salt with shea butter for a skin scrub …
Use it as a home spray for Christmas time !
And much much more.
So you see it’s not only a fragrance ingredient – it is a wonderful remedy for many health issues
hajjikram (verified owner) –
Oh man! This is a Christmas tree in a bottle. Siberian fir is in my top 10 list of favourite raw materials. Smelling it is like walking into a forest covered with fir trees. It is sweet, balsamic, resinous, coniferous and jamy. The colour is to die for. This is a must for any composition where fir is required to be the main note. I found that it works incredibly well when paired with orris. This adds further to its complexity. This fir can be used on its own as a perfume and you’d never tire from smelling it all day. It’s a wonderful material with excellent longevity and impact. It can be smelt from the top all the way down to the base when blended carefully.
Per Filipsson (verified owner) –
Interesting forest note, where a deep sweetness, close to balsamic fir, mingles with overtones of pine needles. Much more complex than essential oils in the same genre. This one has foremost the depth of different atmospheric layers and it lacks the cheap fruity notes that many conifer materials possess. I recommend it when you want to step up the quality of your forest scents. It evolves from a kind of deep top note, very mature, and slowly mellows down during the hours, to a more balsamic base.