Carnation Leaves
Note Profile
About
A green, herbaceous, stem-like note with a muted clove warmth underneath. It is the foliage side of carnation, not the flower.
Scent Profile
Carnation leaves smell green and vegetal, crushed stems and foliage rather than flower. A herbaceous, aromatic quality runs alongside that green. Underneath sits a muted clove warmth, a faint warm spice that echoes the flower without repeating it. A slight peppery lift and a trace of floral identity remain at the edges.
ScentWheel
Read off the wheel, not a label applied to the note.
Origin
There is no such material. Premiere Peau states plainly that no commercial extraction of carnation leaves exists separately from the flower, and calls the note conceptual. Perfumers build it as an accord: green-leaf compounds such as cis-3-hexenol to give the crushed-stem character, with eugenol held well back so the clove signature of Dianthus caryophyllus reads as a trace rather than the subject. Fragrantica records the label on 14 perfumes, so the name is used even though the raw material is not.
Usage in Perfumery
Use it to place carnation in a green or fougere setting without the flower's sweetness. It reads as a leaf note first, so it sits with the other stem and foliage notes, and the eugenol trace is what tells a wearer which plant the leaf came from.
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