Deadnettle

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Deadnettle is a note named for purple deadnettle, Lamium purpureum, a mint-family plant that is not a nettle. It smells green, woody and piney rather than floral, with hay and damp earth beneath. It is an impression of the plant, not a traded oil.

Scent Profile

Deadnettle smells green, woody and piney rather than floral. A green, leafy opening runs over dry wood with a resinous pine edge. Hay and dried grass sit beneath, with damp earth and a soft herbal, mint-family background. A sharp fruity-green trace and a hint of freshly husked corn round it out.

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Family Green & Aromatic, Woody & Earthy

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Origin

Purple deadnettle is Lamium purpureum, family Lamiaceae, native to Europe and Asia. Despite the name it is unrelated to stinging nettle (Urtica, family Urticaceae) and does not sting. Its essential oil is led by germacrene D, at 15.0 to 46.3 percent in samples from Alabama and 35.4 percent in a sample from Italy. The Alabama samples also held alpha-pinene, beta-pinene and 1-octen-3-ol at up to about 15 percent each.

Usage in Perfumery

Deadnettle appears as a base note in one perfume, Anima by Fray Ardens. No deadnettle oil or extract is sold for perfumery. The Good Scents Company marks its purple deadnettle extract as not for fragrance use. The note is built from other green and herbal materials.