Description and usage notes:
Description from Givaudan: “Azarbre has a warm honey note with aspects of dried flowers. At 2 or 3% will enhance the effect of ionones. When used at up to 10% it blends the woody and floral components of a fragrance together. Particularly suited for honey-sweet florals.”
Arcadi Boix Camps, writing in 2009, laments that Azarbre is “missing from most laboratories.” He describes the odour as “ woody-honey-rooty, with notes of dry flowers” and suggests that it “forms great accords” with a range of materials including rooty essential oils, agar wood oils, tobacco absolute, ionones, damascones, phenylacetates and others.
Peter (verified owner) –
Doesn’t particularly smell of honey, on it’s own or in a blend.. not quite sure on this one, but I may be using it wrong… I since ordered Honey Absolute instead
Ivan (verified owner) –
Hay, tobacco, a lukewarm smell… Really nice. Smells kind of dry flowers, pipe tobacco, sweet and dry at once… and I can detect a little hint of damascones, but just as a shade… A fruity version of iso butylquinolene, less dry and nicer to my nose, as it reminds me of that typical tobacco store and its alluring smell.
lucacavaleri (verified owner) –
Ok, i LOVE this material, but it can be tricky. At a first sniff I did’t recognise honey aspects. But if you compare Azarbre to Honey sig-nature,
the honey facet will be easily recognisable.
I can also smell a ionone-like aspect, which makes it velvety-woody.
And there comes the tricky facet: to my nose there’s a kinda fresh-herbal hint bringing an aromatic aspect to the whole thing, especially in high %.
thefragrantmind (verified owner) –
Lovely soft and, yes, ionones with a honey aspect.
knatesuda (verified owner) –
Cherry wood on which spilled red wine.