Flouve

Note Profile

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The coumarin-rich absolute of sweet vernal grass. It smells of freshly cut and baled hay, sweetened with honey and dried fruit, with mild tobacco and a gingerbread edge.

Scent Profile

Flouve smells of freshly cut hay, baled and sweetened with honey and dried fruit. A soft, vanilla-like sweetness runs through it, the coumarin note rather than sugar. It carries a strong, herbal edge, powerful rather than faint. A mild tobacco leaf and a warm, spiced gingerbread edge show in the background, with raisin and fig deep underneath.

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Breadthmedium

EnvelopeBase · ~34h lasting

Family Amber · Musk · Leather, Sweet & Gourmand, Green & Aromatic

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Materials That Can Make This Note

Perfumers can make Flouve from this natural extract.

Natural extract Flouve absolute herbaceous · coumarinic · dry

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Origin

Flouve is the French name for sweet vernal grass, Anthoxanthum odoratum. The absolute is solvent-extracted from the dried grass. Coumarin is the named driver of the odour and it is liberated when the grass dries, so the note is a product of drying rather than of the living plant. It is sold as its own material by natural-materials houses, usually diluted, because the neat absolute is very strong.

Usage in Perfumery

Use it as a base note for hay, fougere and tobacco accords. It is powerful and very tenacious, so it is dosed low. It carries gourmand facets that let it sit under vanilla, tonka and dried-fruit notes as well as under green and herbal ones.