Cerruti 1881 Collection
EDP · 2005
Cerruti
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Olive Leaf
Note Profile
About
Olive Leaf is the silvery foliage of the Mediterranean olive tree, not its wood and not its fruit. It smells green, bitter, dry and dusty, with a metallic sharpness that keeps it from reading as a soft garden leaf. It is the smell of scrubland in July rather than of a hedge after rain.
Scent Profile
Olive Leaf smells dry, bitter and green, like crushed grey foliage rather than a wet garden leaf. A savoury, herbal quality sits underneath, close to scrubland in the Mediterranean heat. A metallic, mineral sharpness runs through it too, with a warm dustiness alongside. A thin, dry wood trace and an earthy grounding hold underneath it all.
ScentWheel
Breadthmedium
EnvelopeHeart · ~6h lasting
Family
Green & Aromatic
Read off the wheel, not a label applied to the note.
ScentArt
Seen in
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Origin
Leaves of Olea europaea, across the Mediterranean basin. The same tree gives three odours: the leaf is bitter-green and slightly leathery, the wood is a dry linear woodiness from the rough bark, and the fruit is oily and greasy-fruity. Only the first of those is this note.
Usage in Perfumery
A heart material in Mediterranean, fig, herbal and green-fougere compositions, where it supplies dry bitterness rather than sap. It pairs with fig leaf, myrtle, rosemary, tomato leaf and dry woods, and it is used to stop a green accord turning sweet. Small doses read as sun-warmed dust; larger ones turn austere and metallic.
Similar Notes
Perfumes featuring Olive Leaf
A selection of reviewed perfumes where Olive Leaf appears prominently.
