Acorn

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Acorn is an autumn note built from an idea rather than an extract. Nobody distils acorns. Every source that describes it is selling a candle, a flavour oil or a blend built around the picture of an oak wood in October. What they agree on is earth, wood and a small nuttiness, in that order.

Scent Profile

Acorn smells of damp soil and fallen leaves, the slow decay of a forest floor. A dry woody warmth runs almost as strong underneath, giving it an autumnal edge rather than a simply wet one. A small nutty note follows, faint and well behind the other two. A faint sweet edge lingers at the very back, more suggestion than substance.

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Breadthmedium

EnvelopeBase · ~12h lasting

Family Woody & Earthy, Sweet & Gourmand

Read off the wheel, not a label applied to the note.

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Materials That Can Make This Note

Perfumers can build Acorn from materials such as:

Megastigmatrienone a tobacco · hay · dry

Smell words come from published sources.

A given perfume with this note may use some of these, or something else.

Origin

There is no acorn extraction. No supplier sells an acorn absolute, CO2 or essential oil, and no GC-MS study of acorn odour was found. A fragrance blog on the term states plainly that acorns are not commonly used in perfumery and that, because they lack a distinctive smell, nobody synthesises them either. The material that does reach perfumery from the same tree is oakmoss, a lichen, which is a separate note. Acorn is therefore a fantasy accord, reconstructed from woody, earthy and nutty materials.

Usage in Perfumery

It appears in autumn and harvest compositions, almost always beside maple, plum, sandalwood or patchouli rather than on its own. Fragrantica records eight placements. Parfumo records none. Perfumers use it as a base accent that grounds a composition in damp forest floor and gives an autumnal frame a name.