Smoketree

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Smoketree is the essential oil of Cotinus coggygria, a Eurasian shrub. It does not smell of smoke. The name comes from the plant's fluffy pink seed plumes, which look like clouds of smoke on the bush. The oil itself is terpenic and citrus-led.

Scent Profile

Smoketree does not smell of smoke. The oil itself is terpenic and citrus-led, bright and sharp on top. A green, leafy note runs close behind it. A mango-like tropical fruitiness shows too, faint and reported only once. A herbal note rounds out the rest.

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Family Fresh & Citrus, Green & Aromatic

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Perfumers can make Smoketree from this natural extract.

Natural extract Cotinus coggygria branch/leaf oil (smoketree essential oil)

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Origin

The oil comes from the leaves and flowers at a yield of up to 0.20 per cent. A PubMed Central review of the species says the plant is used to make an essential oil with a terpenic odour for perfumery, and gives the composition: monoterpene hydrocarbons dominate at 87.4 and 93.1 per cent across two samples, led by limonene at 47.0 and 39.2 per cent, (Z)-beta-ocimene at 16.4 and 26.3 per cent, and alpha-pinene at about 8 per cent. A Bulgarian producer lists the same compounds and adds alpha-terpineol. Plants For A Future reports a volatile oil in the leaves containing pinene and camphene, and says one report calls the odour mango-like.

Usage in Perfumery

What the chemistry allows is a top-note lift: an oil that is nine-tenths monoterpene hydrocarbons will flash off fast and will not hold a heart. Fragrantica records it in three fragrances and files it under Flowers.