Parisienne Essence is a food colouring (brown) without flavour, that is used to colour gravies, sauces, soups, broths, cakes and puddings. Because it has no flavour, it can be used for sweet and savoury recipes. It comes in 100ml plastic bottles and is manufactured by the Queen Fine Foods company in Australia, who also manufacture food colourings, essences and confectionery ingredients.

I use it all the time, especially for my saucepan gravies which aren't made from the pan drippings of roasts (fond). It's also great for making fruit cakes darker.