Tobacco Flower Absolute

#### Tobacco Flower Absolute. Certain species of the tobacco plant, **Nicotiana**, have flowers which are very fragrant, and for this reason have attracted not only horticulturists, but also perfumers. It will be remembered that the flowers of several species of **Coffea**, the coffee bush, have attained a similar reputation for fragrance. However, perfumery products of these botanicals are very rare and hardly ever offered commercially in significant amounts. A few perfume houses may process their own absolutes from the concrète extracts of flowers from **Nicotiana Affinis, Nicotiana**** ****Petunoides **or various species of **Nicotiana **from the Middle East. The author has no personal experience with the use in perfumery of true extracts of fragrant tobacco flowers, but he has studied various species, including **Nicotiana**** ****Affinis**, in nature. The fragrance of this flower is extremely delicate, yet rich and sweet, spicy-floral, somewhat reminiscent of carnation with a fresher note, almost fruity. The white/pink phlox and the "sweet William", well known garden perennials, may even better describe the main odor type of the tobacco flower. Because of its inavailability, the absolute of tobacco flower is a well-nigh unknown perfume material, and the inclusion of the material in this book may only serve as a completion of the monograph on **Tobacco Leaf Absolute **(see the following monograph).