Wallflower Absolute

#### Wallflower Absolute. The decorative perennial plant **Cheiranthus Cheiri **has been known in the eastern Mediterranean countries for more than 2000 years, and was mentioned along with violet in ancient greek history. The small plant grows wild in the south of France, Italy, Greece and the Middle East. It is widely cultivated in numerous varieties in Europe as a garden perennial (known in Germany as **Goldlack**). Occasionally, small quantities of flowers are extracted with petroleum ether in the south of France. The resulting concrète is washed with alcohol to produce an **Absolute **of **Wallflower**. This absolute is a brownish-orange or olive- brown colored, viscous liquid of intensely sweet floral fragrance, reminiscent of jasmin, honey, orange flower, ylang-ylang and with a narcissus-carnation-like, green topnote. Wallflower absolute is no more produced on a commercial scale, and only very rarely are sizeable lots offered on the open market. The author has no personal notes of its odor description since 1953*, *and it is quite possible that a true wallflower absolute is now an obsolete article. When available, wallflower absolute could be used in high-class lotion perfumes of the floral and heavier type where it would blend well with jasmin, ylang-ylang, tuberose, petitgrain, Peru balsam oil, benzoin Siam resinoid, linalool, methylionones, nerol, nerylacetate, phenylethyl cinnamate, phenylacetates, isoeugenol, etc.