Birch Tar is a natural raw material leather perfume note.
What does Birch Tar smell like?+
Smoky, burnt wood, leather and tar.
How is Birch Tar obtained?+
Birch Tar is obtained by distillation, using the wood.
Is Birch Tar a top, heart, or base note?+
Birch Tar is most often used as a base note. Across 232 fragrances on Noteboxd it is listed as a top note in 30, a heart note in 49, and a base note in 153.
What are the most popular fragrances with Birch Tar?
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Popular fragrances featuring Birch Tar include Gold Rose Oudh by Tiziana Terenzi, London by Tom Ford, Midnight Oud by Juliette Has A Gun, Falcon Leather by Matière Première, ranked by community score on Noteboxd.
How many fragrances contain Birch Tar?+
Birch Tar is featured in 397 fragrances on Noteboxd.
Reminiscent of the smoky embers of a wood fire, birch offers a blanket of warmth with distinctively leather-like notes. The tar-like, burnt leather facets of birch bark blend delectably in many masculine fragrances of woody notes, ferns and Chypres. Birch tar oil is commonly used in suede and leather tanning.
The beautiful birch tree has a rather dark history: deriving from the Latin verb “batuere” (“to strike”), birch branches were traditionally used as whips to punish children. “Birching” has—rather unfortunately—been a common corporal punishment throughout our collective history. Through the Middles Ages, men would receive several strikes to their bare buttocks as punishment for petty crime.
A broadleaved and deciduous hardwood tree, birch is most commonly processed across Russia and Northern Europe. To obtain essences suitable for perfumery, birch tar oil is extracted through a slow and destructive distillation process. Once the wood has been processed, the decadent birch essence is suitable for perfumery after dephonolization (alkaline processing).