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Martini

Note Profile

Prepared

About

Martini is a fantasy note built to smell like the cocktail. It is dry rather than sweet, which is the one thing every source agrees on. Two parts recur across sources that do not cite each other: a soft bitter olive green, and a juniper gin lift that reads fresh and almost fizzy. Salt and brine sit under both, and a light wood closes it. No house publishes a martini standard, so this vector is assembled from descriptions of its parts and carries a low confidence.

Scent Profile

Green leads, and it is the olive rather than a cut-stem green: soft, oily and slightly bitter. Aromatic_herbal is the juniper, a bright botanical edge that reads as gin. Mineral is the brine, the salted-olive character that separates this from a plain herbal accord. Boozy sits under both as the spirit itself, dry and cold rather than sugary. Dry_woody closes it, the hinoki and cedarwood finish the one commercial source names. Citrus is the twist, present but thin because no source makes it load-bearing. Sour is the olive-brine acidity. Below these sit fresh_spice, cooling_mentholic, fruity, aldehydic sparkle, earthy and a lactonic trace on the far dry-down.

ScentWheel

Breadthbroad

EnvelopeTop · ~2h lasting

Family Green & Aromatic, Elemental, Sweet & Gourmand

Read off the wheel, not a label applied to the note.

Origin

There is no traded material called martini. It is an accord, and the evidence for it is evidence about its components. A working perfumer, Julien Rasquinet of CPL Aromas, describes an olive accord as soft, green and slightly bitter with an almost velvety texture. Juniper berry CO2 is described by buyers as gin-like, fresh, woody and fizzy, without the terpenic harshness of the essential oil, drying down to a lactonic fruity trace. One commercial fragrance built on the cocktail name lists salted olive, juniper, hinoki and cedarwood. Vermouth and the citrus twist are part of the drink but no source treats them as load-bearing in the accord.

Usage in Perfumery

A dry, savoury opening. Perfumers use it where a gourmand would be too sweet and a straight citrus too simple: a briny green lift over a light wood. 23 Fragrantica placements and 7 Parfumo placements across 7 brands. It pairs with olive, juniper, hinoki, cedar and salt accords. It is the dry end of the beverage notes, and Fragrantica files it exactly that way.