Civet Coffee Ethiopia

Civet Paste – Natural Raw Material

Some ingredients are not meant to please.

They are meant to transform.

Pure civet paste is, quite possibly, the most animalistic raw material a perfumer can encounter. In its raw form, it is intense, untamed, almost brutal: deeply fecal, with ammoniac and urinous facets that demand respect. Working with it means confronting the most primitive side of olfactory art.

But the magic happens in dilution.

In traces —when handled with precision—, civet is completely transformed: an unexpected, almost creamy sweetness emerges, with a clean musk undertone and a warmth reminiscent of the enveloping sweetness of ambergris. What was wild becomes radiant. What was harsh becomes magnetic.

Its fixative power is extraordinary.

Its ability to make other notes "take off" —florals, resins, leathers, oud— is simply masterful. It adds volume, body, vibration. It turns a flat composition into something alive.

Now available:

Pure Civet Paste (for experienced perfumers).

Tincture currently macerating —to be released in approximately six months, once the material has reached its optimal roundness and balance.

A historical ingredient.

A demanding raw material.

A tool of incomparable depth.