Clover Blossom

Note Profile

Botanical

About

Clover blossom is the flower head of the clover plant taken on its own, not the whole plant. It reads honeyed and softly floral, with meadow green behind it and a dry coumarinic hay warmth underneath. It is sweeter and lighter than the published clover note, which sits on the leaf-and-hay side of the same plant.

Scent Profile

Honeyed leads. Premiere Peau names it first and names it directly: 'the honey of white clover flowers'. Floral is the flower head itself, soft rather than heady, because the same publisher's amyl salicylate entry calls the effect a 'clean, herbaceous-green brightness... without sharpness' and nothing in either source is indolic. Green is the meadow the flower stands in, from 'sweet, green-herbaceous'. It is scored under the published clover note's 0.65 because that value carries the foliage and this note does not. Tobacco_hay is the coumarinic warmth, named twice over as 'coumarinic hay warmth' and 'sun-warmed hay'. It is real, but it belongs to the leaf, so it drops from the clover holds. Sweet_vanillic is the coumarin sweetness that arrives with the hay. Amber_resinous is held rather than zero because ScenTree files sweet clover absolute as 'Balsamic Ambery', but that is Melilotus and a different plant, so it is a hint here and not evidence.

ScentWheel

Breadthbroad

EnvelopeHeart · ~5h lasting

Family Sweet & Gourmand, Floral, Green & Aromatic

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

Origin

No supplier sells a clover blossom absolute or CO2. True clover, Trifolium, yields no traded essential oil, so every clover effect in perfumery is a reconstruction built on coumarin, linalool, cis-3-hexenol and amyl salicylate. Premiere Peau's clover entry splits that reconstruction in two. It names 'the honey of white clover flowers' on one side and 'the dried-grass sweetness of the leaves' on the other. This note is the first half. Sweet clover absolute is a real traded material, but it is Melilotus, a different genus that shares the English name, and it is not the basis of this vector.

Usage in Perfumery

A soft meadow-floral used to open or lift a fougere, a hay accord or a light white floral. It carries honeyed sweetness with none of the indolic weight of jasmine or orange blossom. It sits next to tonka, woodruff, hay and mimosa. In practice it is built with amyl salicylate, the material Premiere Peau calls 'dry clover, sun-warmed hay' and the one perfumers have reached for to signal clover for over a century.