Greenwood
Note Profile
About
Greenwood is a perfumery accord name, not a sourced raw material. No supplier lists it and no trade source describes its smell. Parfumo files it under Woods and records 46 perfumes using it between 1984 and 2026. The English word means a forest in full leaf, and also unseasoned freshly cut wood. Both readings point the same way: leaf and sap over a wood base.
Scent Profile
Greenwood smells like its name: leaf and sap laid over a base of raw, unseasoned wood. Green and woody sit close together, neither one clearly ahead of the other. An earthy, forest-floor note runs underneath, the smell of a wood in full leaf rather than cut timber sitting in a yard. It stays a light, uncomplicated read rather than a rich or heavy one.
ScentWheel
Read off the wheel, not a label applied to the note.
Origin
Abstract. Built by the perfumer rather than distilled from one plant. Attested only as a note name in perfume listings, mostly from small independent houses. Wiktionary traces the word to Middle English grene wode, a forest that is leafed out.
Usage in Perfumery
Used as a woodland effect that runs through a whole composition. Parfumo records it appearing across the top, heart and base of the perfumes that carry it, rather than in one stage.
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Perfumes featuring Greenwood
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