BotaniCult Fragrances

This gnarly dried up root is orris. It comes from the iris plant and has to dry for up to five years before it can be distilled into orris butter, one of the most expensive natural ingredients in perfumery.
Most people think of orris as a powdery floral note and leave it there. It's actually one of the most versatile ingredients a perfumer can work with. It adds texture more than scent. Powdery, suede-like, warm. If you could feel a fragrance with your nose, orris is part of how that happens. Something like a veil or a warm knitted fabric against skin. Texture. Depth. It seems less like a scent and more like a feeling.
It’s doing its job in a few of our fragrances, and is one of the most special ingredients I work with.
Have you ever worn a fragrance and felt it as much as smelled it?

Heat. Metal. Skin.