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One ton of iris root produces two kilos of essential oil, also referred to as orris root butter or butter of iris, and it is the most expensive substance used in the fragrance industry. [7] Its fragrance has been described as tenaciously flowery, heavy and woody (paraphrasing Pavia, Dutch translation, page 40). It is similar to violets. [6]
Orris oil (orris butter or Beurre d'Iris) is an essential oil derived from irises, particularly Iris germanica. [1] It is sometimes used as a flavoring agent and as an ingredient in perfume production.
Inspired by the nightclubs of the Sunset Strip in the 1970s, this Pefumehead fragrance is made up of notes of neon galbanum, cinnamon bark, orris butter, Whiskey a Go Go (IYKYK), angelica root ...
The aged rhizomes are steam-distilled which produces a thick oily compound, known in the perfume industry as "iris butter" or orris oil. [50] Iris rhizomes also contain notable amounts of terpenes, and organic acids such as ascorbic acid, myristic acid, tridecylenic acid and undecylenic acid. Iris rhizomes can be toxic.
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Irones are a group of methylionone odorants used in perfumery, derived from iris oil, [1] e.g. orris root. The most commercially important of these are: (-)-cis-γ-irone, and (-)-cis-α-irone; Irones form through slow oxidation of triterpenoids in dried rhizomes of the iris species, Iris pallida.
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