Vegetal Notes
Note Profile
About
Vegetal Notes is a group note, not a material. It is what a brand prints when the green thing in the formula is a vegetable, a root or a stem rather than a flower or a fruit. It is broader than Green Notes: it reaches past leaf-and-stem greenness into damp earth, moss, cucumber water and a sulphurous edge.
Scent Profile
Vegetal Notes smells green and crisp, crumpled leaves and cut stems wet with dew. It runs deeper into earthy, damp soil territory than a plain green note, recalling potato or undergrowth. Kitchen herbs like basil, rosemary and thyme run through it. A watery, cucumber freshness sits alongside, and a damp, mossy note grounds the whole thing.
ScentWheel
Read off the wheel, not a label applied to the note.
ScentArt
Origin
No single source. The term covers the vegetable and root end of the green family. The materials named with it are galbanum (undergrowth, potato, pea, peppery), violet leaf (cucumber, green bean, sulphurous, rasping leather), moss, cucumber, tomato leaf, and the culinary herbs basil, rosemary, thyme and mint.
Usage in Perfumery
Attested on 5 Fragrantica entries and 5 Parfumo entries across 4 brands, which is thin. Perfumers use it to make a composition read as raw and outdoor rather than cooked or floral.
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Perfumes featuring Vegetal Notes
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