Fresh and citrus notes

202 notes

Fresh notes smell bright, clean and cold: citrus peel, sea air and other aquatic notes, mint and the sparkle of aldehydes. They lift off the skin first, which is why so many perfumes open with them. This list is the notes that lean on fresh more than on any other scent family.

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Fresh Floral Fruity Green Sweet Spicy Woody Amber Elemental Waxy

Botanical

115 notes
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Plants, and what is pressed, distilled or extracted straight from them - peel, petal, resin, root, wood, leaf.

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Prepared

36 notes
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Materials that only exist because something was done to them: roasted, burnt, tanned, fermented, cured, cooked.

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Molecule

24 notes
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Single aroma chemicals, named as themselves. Some occur in nature and some do not; all of them behave predictably.

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Abstract

20 notes
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Notes that name a sensation rather than a substance. Nothing is distilled to make them - they are an effect the perfumer builds.

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Animal

2 notes
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Materials of animal origin, and the modern reconstructions that stand in for them.

Mineral

5 notes
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Stone, salt, metal and earth - the inorganic end of the vocabulary.