Quintessent Quince Base (PK Perfumes)
$9.00 – $145.00
Exclusively made by PK Perfumes
Description (Courtesy of Paul Kiler)- Olfactory descriptions of Fresh and cooked Quince fruits might highlight certain aspects of it, fresh pear, on the lighter side, but then it goes into a full blown riot of roses, vanilla, green apples, pineapple, and honey. In other varieties, you might pull out Jammy, Davana, green, lactones, Mint, Anise, and Tea. SEE BELOW FOR MORE.
Description
Exclusively made by PK Perfumes
Description (Courtesy of Paul Kiler)- Olfactory descriptions of Fresh and cooked Quince fruits might highlight certain aspects of it, fresh pear, on the lighter side, but then it goes into a full blown riot of roses, vanilla, green apples, pineapple, and honey. In other varieties, you might pull out Jammy, Davana, green, lactones, Mint, Anise, and Tea.
The fruit of Quince is one of the most amazing fruits, with so many facets, so many varieties, ways to eat, smell, cook, jam the fruit; the odors and flavors resultant are a veritable rainbow of ideas and contrasts. At various stages and with various versions, unripe, ripe, and cooked, the choices of what aroma to portray in a perfumery base, and which to highlight and share, while you may have to sacrifice others to do so, makes a difficult choice to a Perfumer. My goal was to make an arresting base, and to combine with the various fruity aspects the beautiful and floral aspects. There were so many tangents and possibilities for a Quince Base, but I had to pick . . . * something . . .
When I walked through the Van Gogh museum in May 2019, I was looking for a third Van Gogh painting to make a base another perfume around. My two other Van Gogh inspired perfumes are Café Diem, and Starry Starry Night. I found a third painting that seemed like a very good start to a Perfume, (I later designed a perfume to push two Van Gogh paintings together into one perfume), but the top and middle notes would be one that featured a quince fruit base. Van Gogh seemed to love to keep the fruit around, not only to paint, but also to fragrance his environment, which fascinated me with my favorite Artist’s relationship to scent. But I had no good relationship with Quince fruit, nor did I have a Quince base, and had not smelled a good quince base before, so I set myself the task to make it.
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| Weight | N/A |
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| Quantity | 5g, 25g, 60g, 200g |
4 reviews for Quintessent Quince Base (PK Perfumes)
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Hoang Nguyen –
My experience with PK base is always dilute it down to equal or less than 10% to evaluate. At 10% dillution on the wrist, I get light pear, soft fruity, floral with a touch of honey. Then after 20 minutes, it smell like Tet festival in rural Vietnam. We would gather the fruits, honeycomb on the trees from our backyard tropical farm. Then cook them in the light mixture of water, sugar and honey syrup like a porridge until getting the sticky fruit. It is the breeze you smell of the process of cooking the fruit when you just arrived at the gate fence, coming back to visit home from the urban.
redstar –
This quince base is fantastic! It’s definitely the aroma of cooked quince, with a dominant (and delicious) honey character, which adds a rich flair to whatever perfume you’re making. I use this at 100% in small amounts, but I’ve also found it extremely useful at lower dilutions (5-10%) when only an essence of quince is needed. Bravo!
rynarpo –
I love that the image is a quince looking lemon! This base … Wow! It’s so rich, syrupy, fruity. I feel like there’s a hint of rose jam and vanilla in the background. I can’t wait to use this in a perfume!
dragoncross329 –
I love this but really need to dilute to 10%. But it’s perfectly mix of fruit and citrus.