Rumex

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Rumex is a sharp, cold green note with a sour bite and a metallic edge. It reads as torn leaf and raw stem rather than as a soft herb. A faint hay sweetness appears late, under the tartness. It carries no warmth, no spice and no floral softening.

Scent Profile

Rumex smells intensely green, like fresh-cut grass with a bitter-green backbone. A sour-vegetal sharpness runs through it, close to acidity rather than sweetness. It reads closer to metal than to herb, an iron-filings mineral edge that sits right alongside the sourness. A faint hay-like sweetness shows only right at the very end, and there is no warmth, spice or floral softness anywhere in it.

ScentWheel

Breadthbroad

EnvelopeHeart · ~5h lasting

Family Green & Aromatic, Fruity, Elemental

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

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Origin

Rumex is the genus of the sorrels and docks, about 200 species in the buckwheat family. Rumex acetosa, common sorrel, is the species perfumery refers to. Sorrel leaves yield no commercial essential oil, so the perfumery note is a reconstruction rather than an extract. The sourced formula is built from cis-3-hexenol for leaf alcohol, citric-metallic aldehydes for the cold edge, acetic sharpness for the tartness, and galbanum resinoid for the bitter-green backbone. A CAS number exists for a Rumex crispus extract, 84775-48-4, but no source ties it to a perfumery material in trade.

Usage in Perfumery

Rumex is used as a heart note to push a green accord towards sour and metallic and away from herbal. Its sourced strength is medium. It is thinly used: 3 Fragrantica placements and none on Parfumo, so it is a specialist green rather than shared vocabulary.