Raspberry Leaf

Note Profile

Botanical 21 perfumes

Drag to turn On Note Island

About

Raspberry leaf is a green, jammy note that comes from the plant, not the berry. It smells like crushing bramble stems and sun-warmed fruit at the same time, over a balsamic base with a soft leathery edge. Perfumers reach for it when a green note also needs fruit and weight, rather than the crisp cut-leaf effect that blackcurrant leaf or galbanum give.

Scent Profile

Raspberry Leaf smells green, like crushed stems and bramble foliage rather than a clean cut leaf. A jammy, sun warmed fruitiness sits right alongside it. Underneath runs a balsamic, amber resinous warmth with a soft leather edge. A tart, sour sap note cuts across the opening, and the drydown turns quietly woody.

ScentWheel

Breadthmedium

EnvelopeBase · ~12h lasting

Family Green & Aromatic, Fruity

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

WorldSee it in Note Island

ScentArt

What is ScentArt?

Materials That Can Make This Note

Perfumers can make Raspberry Leaf from this natural extract.

Natural extract Raspberry leaf absolute (Rubus idaeus L.)

Smell words come from published sources.

A given perfume with this note may use this material, or something else.

Origin

The material is an absolute from the leaves of the raspberry plant, Rubus idaeus. Suppliers sell it as a base-note absolute, not as a distilled oil, and the yield is small enough that it stays a niche natural. Every source found agrees the smell is not the fruit. Premiere Peau describes 'tart sap, balsamic resin, a leathery sweetness underneath' and puts it 'closer to davana than to actual raspberry fruit', with 'none of the synthetic candy-sweetness of raspberry ketone'. Living Libations, which sells the absolute, calls it 'a deep, charming aromatic that as a base note effortlessly weaves together aromas of fruity conifers, resin, and musky tea scents'.

Usage in Perfumery

Perfumers use raspberry leaf low in a composition, in the late heart and base, where it links a green top to a resinous drydown. Living Libations lists balsam fir absolute, bergamot, ylang, vanilla, vetiver, oakmoss, jasmine, marjoram and lemon as blending partners, which is a base-note list rather than a fresh-top one. It gives fruit character without the sugar of a berry accord, so it suits chypre and woody-balsamic builds, hedgerow and bramble effects, and fruity florals that need drying out. Measured in the perfume data on 2026-08-23: 30 Parfumo placements across 22 brands.