Musk rose (hard to find, but worth it)

I was talking about using blue lotus phytol, a few posts down…

I also happen to have a small (okay, hoarded) quantity of musk rose phytol.  Rosa moschatus.

Because Circe is almost running low, I broke it out today to use in that perfume.  Musk rose is like rose petal preserves.  But it’s not marmalade like a solvent-extracted absolute is, and it’s not a shrieking steam-distilled otto (rose otto always makes me think of opera for some reason; it is a lot of sound and fury and mezzo soprano high notes, all in a teeny weeny little apothecary bottle!).

Warm, faintly spicy red and pink rose petals, more than anything else.  It adds a bit more texture and atmosphere than the Bulgarian Rosa damascena I use in Circe, or rather it seems to augment and strengthen it?  I am still deciding whether it is top to middle, or middle to base.