Greenheart Wood
Note Profile
About
Greenheart is a real Guyanese timber, Chlorocardium rodiei, and the timber trade says the seasoned wood has little to no smell. Only the freshly cut green wood is aromatic. Whatever is in the bottle is therefore more concentrated than sawn lumber, and no supplier sheet exists for it. It reads as a quiet dry wood with a green, sap-cut edge.
Scent Profile
Greenheart Wood smells like a quiet, dry timber, with almost no smell when seasoned. What scent it has is green, a sap cut freshness from when the wood is freshly cut rather than aged. It stays faint and understated throughout, closer to a whisper of wood than a strong note.
ScentWheel
Read off the wheel, not a label applied to the note.
ScentArt
Origin
Chlorocardium rodiei, also called Demerara greenheart, from Guyana. The Wood Database states it plainly: 'Freshly cut green wood can have an aromatic scent, though the dried wood has little to no characteristic odour.' It is a construction and marine timber, prized for density and rot resistance, not an aromatic species. No supplier data sheet, no GC analysis and no trade material sold as greenheart wood could be found.
Usage in Perfumery
2 Parfumo placements across 2 brands. Parfumo tracks the note in 44 perfumes from 2015 to 2026 and says it occurs throughout the whole fragrance rather than in one position. Every attestation reachable comes from one perfumer, Abdullah Dickman of Mellifluence, who places it beside cedar, spruce, pine, fir balsam, several ouds, vetiver and myrrh, and whose retailer says it blends with the vetiver and wild Aceh oud.
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