Laurel Blossom
Note Profile
About
The flower of the bay laurel tree, Laurus nobilis. It reads as the herbal, faintly cooling character of the bay leaf with the volume turned down and a light clean florality laid over it.
Scent Profile
Laurel Blossom smells aromatic and green-herbal, like bay leaf with the volume turned down. A light, clean floral note is laid over the top, gentle rather than showy. A faint cooling freshness runs through it, softer than the leaf's own cineole edge.
ScentWheel
Read off the wheel, not a label applied to the note.
ScentArt
Origin
A botanical referent with no commercial extract. Bay laurel flowers in Mediterranean spring, in small creamy-yellow clusters. Premiere Peau states that the flowers are not commercially extracted and that the note is a fantasy accord, built from diluted bay leaf oil, light green-floral materials and a clean aromatic-herbal thread. Kilic and colleagues (J. Agric. Food Chem. 2004, 52:1601-6) ran GC-MS and GC-olfactometry on fresh leaves, buds, flowers and fruit of the same tree, which is the only measurement of the flower itself found for this note.
Usage in Perfumery
4 Fragrantica placements. Nothing on Parfumo. Fragrantica files it under Flowers.
Similar Notes
Perfumes featuring Laurel Blossom
A selection of reviewed perfumes where Laurel Blossom appears prominently.
No perfumes featuring this note have been reviewed yet. Check back soon.