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EDP · 2023
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Laurissilva Forest
Note Profile
About
Laurissilva is the humid laurel forest of Macaronesia. It is a place, not a distilled material. Only two sources describe how it smells and neither is a fragrance house. A travel account names damp earth and old laurel leaf under a moss-covered canopy. A Madeira candle names the forest aroma, then marine notes and flowers beside it.
Scent Profile
Laurissilva Forest smells of damp earth and old laurel leaf, thick and humid rather than dry. A green canopy note runs through it, with moss close behind, like standing under wet trees. A herbal, bay-like note comes from the laurel itself, and standing timber gives a faint woody frame underneath. A trace of sea air drifts in from outside the forest rather than from within it.
ScentWheel
Breadthbroad
EnvelopeBase · ~10h lasting
Read off the wheel, not a label applied to the note.
ScentArt
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Origin
Laurissilva is a very humid subtropical forest of trees in the Lauraceae family. It is endemic to Macaronesia: Madeira, the Azores, the Canary Islands and Cape Verde. The Madeira laurissilva is the largest surviving stand. No supplier sells an oil under this name. The note is a place assembled from what grows in it, chiefly laurel-family leaf, moss, wet leaf litter and wet basalt.
Usage in Perfumery
One attestation in the Fragrantica note vocabulary and none in Parfumo. The only commercial use found is a Madeira-themed candle from A Vida Portuguesa, which sets the forest aroma alongside marine notes and island flowers. Treat it as a damp-green forest base for place-led compositions. It is not the same brief as forest-floor, which is leaf mould and humus with no leaf and no sea.
Similar Notes
Perfumes featuring Laurissilva Forest
A selection of reviewed perfumes where Laurissilva Forest appears prominently.