Green and aromatic notes

278 notes

Green notes smell of living plants, from freshly cut leaves and stems, a little bitter, to dried herbs like lavender and sage, warm and calm. This list is the notes that lean on green and aromatic more than on any other scent family.

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Botanical

247 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

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

Molecule

15 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

5 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.