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Green Sap

Note Profile

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Also Known As

Plant Juice

About

Green Sap is a figurative fragrance note that evokes the smell of fresh plant sap released when stems or leaves are broken. It recreates a wet, intensely green, slightly bitter impression, suggesting raw vegetation and living plants in motion. Perfumers use it to bring a vivid, botanical realism and a sense of pulsing life to green compositions.

Scent Profile

Olfactorily, Green Sap is described as wet, bitter, and intensely vegetal, capturing the exact smell of a crushed stem leaking fluid. It has a chlorophyll-like, leafy character with a faintly metallic edge and a watery sharpness that feels fresh and outdoorsy. The overall profile sits between cut grass and raw stems, with a sappy nuance. It carries a light herbal, aromatic edge, like crushed herb stems. A faint stony, mineral coolness sits beneath the green.

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EnvelopeTop · ~2h lasting

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Materials That Can Make This Note

Green Sap is usually an accord, a blend of several materials, such as:

1,3-dioxolane, 2-(1-ethylpentyl)- gardenia · metallic · green
2-(5-methyl-7-propan-2-yl-2-bicyclo[2.2.2]oct-5-enyl)-1,3-dioxolane milky · woody · green
Cis-3-hexen-1-ol grassy · foliage · green

Smell words come from published sources.

A given perfume with this note may use some of these, or something else.

Origin

Green Sap is not a single natural extract but a constructed accord that imitates the odour of plant sap and bruised stems. Perfumers build it using combinations of green molecules (such as cis-3-hexenol, cis-3-hexenyl acetate and galbanum-type materials) to suggest chlorophyll, moisture, and the bitterness of raw vegetation. It is inspired by the natural experience of breaking a fresh twig or stem and smelling the liquid that seeps out, rather than by a specific plant species.

Usage in Perfumery

Perfumers employ Green Sap primarily as a top to heart note to introduce immediacy, freshness, and a vivid, botanical realism to compositions. It is common in green florals, herbaceous fragrances, and nature-inspired scents where it can sharpen leafy elements, accentuate florals with a fresh-stem facet, or link citrus and woody notes. Green Sap blends well with grass, tea, citrus, aromatic herbs, and delicate flowers, and it can also add a dynamic, living quality to woods and musks.