Cornflower
Note Profile
About
Cornflower is the blue field flower, Centaurea cyanus. What they describe is a subtle, mildly sweet floral with a grassy edge and a herbal quality, and they are describing a hydrosol or the fresh flower rather than a perfumery material.
Scent Profile
A subtle, mildly sweet floral note leads, with a lightly grassy green edge running through it. There is a herbal quality too, though it is not much like chamomile. It stays faint throughout rather than building into a strong floral.
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Read off the wheel, not a label applied to the note.
ScentArt
Origin
Centaurea cyanus is an annual of European cereal fields, and the note is the flower head. There is no cornflower absolute or essential oil in normal trade. What is sold is a hydrosol, the water left over from distillation, and all three sources here describe that or the flower itself.
Usage in Perfumery
Parfumo records four placements across four brands. Fragrantica records none. It reads as a name for a blue meadow rather than as a dose of material.
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