In short
Olive fruit absolute is a solvent extract of olives. It has a rich, fruity-green odour with fatty, oily and lactonic notes and nuances of cut grass and ripe olives.
What Olive Fruit Absolute smells like
Fraterworks describes olive fruit absolute as a rich, fruity-green aroma with distinctive fatty, oily notes and subtle nuances of freshly cut grass, green leaves and ripe olives, with an unctuous lactonic character rarely seen in a natural, and an ability to buff away the sharpness of green chemicals. Hermitage Oils quotes two perfumers on its Egyptian olive fruity absolute: one finds it sea-breeze fresh and green with a subtle grassy pepperiness, the other fresh, peppery and briny, opening humid and oily with a mild blue-cheese note before turning cooler.
- Leading note
- Ripe olive
- Clear facets
- Green
- Supporting facets
- Fatty, grassy
- Faint facets
- Lactonic
- Character
- Unctuous
What makes Olive Fruit Absolute distinctive
A green natural with a lactonic, oily softness.
How Olive Fruit Absolute is used
Used to soften the sharpness of green chemicals, and in natural replacers and green accords.
Typical role: modifier (used in small amounts to change the character of a blend); blender (smooths the joins between other materials).
How Olive Fruit Absolute differs from similar materials
- cis-3-Hexenyl Butyrate
- cis-3-Hexenyl butyrate is a single green-fruity ester with a buttery richness; olive fruit absolute is the natural, oilier and fatty-lactonic green, with grass and ripe olive.
Each difference compares the published descriptions of the two materials. Smell varies with grade, supplier and dilution; compare them side by side on blotters before substituting one for another.
Formulation considerations
Rare. No CAS number specific to the absolute was confirmed.
Identity and classification
- Type
- Absolute
- Origin
- Natural
- Odour family
- Green / Fruity
- Note position
- Heart note
- Physical form at room temperature
- Viscous liquid
- Botanical source
- Olea europaea L.
No CAS number is shown: suppliers use different identifiers for this material, and none could be confirmed as its own.
Safety and compliance
This page is general information, not a safety assessment or a specification. Confirm identity, composition, IFRA status and allergen content from your supplier's documents for the lot you hold.
Materials it works with
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cis-3-Hexenol
Aroma chemical · Green / Fruity — green, cut grass, leafy, fresh
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Violet Leaf Absolute
Absolute · Green / Aquatic — green, leafy, cucumber, watery
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Galbanum Oil
Essential oil · Green / Resinous — green, sharp, bitter, resinous
Used in formulas and accords
Used in 1 published formula
Olive Fruit Absolute is an ingredient in 1 accord in the Formula & Accord Library.
Further reading
Questions about Olive Fruit Absolute
Is Olive Fruit Absolute natural or synthetic?
Olive Fruit Absolute is natural. It is a concentrated extract obtained from plant material with a solvent, then washed with ethanol to remove the waxes.
Which published formulas use Olive Fruit Absolute?
Olive Fruit Absolute is used in 1 published formula in the RUŌOD Lab Formula & Accord Library: Brined Olive Accord. Each is listed with a link under "Used in formulas and accords" on this page.
Sources
- Fraterworks — Olive Fruit Absolute — distributor's description.
- Hermitage Oils — Olive Fruity Absolute — distributor's description.
- Olfactory profile: the RUŌOD Lab team's synthesis of the published descriptions above, reviewed 26 October 2026. Evidence: more than one published description. Classification and the short description: revision 1. Descriptions of odour are judgement, not measurement.