Vegetal Notes

Note Profile

Abstract

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

Green is the core and all three sources lead there: "green and crisp, ranging from grassy to earthy", "crumpled leaves, cut stems, fresh grass wet with dew". Earthy is the second lead and it is what separates this from the published Green Notes: two of the three sources push into root and soil, one through galbanum's "intense undergrowth scent" that "recalls potato", the other calling the whole family "crisp, clean, and earthy". Aromatic_herbal is the named kitchen herbs - basil, rosemary, thyme, mint - and "garden herbs". Aquatic_ozonic is cucumber, called out as "one of the more popular notes" with "fresh and watery qualities". Mossy_chypre is moss, named as a core sub-note: "earthy and damp", "deep, grounding". Sulphurous is the violet-leaf reading of "green bean, or a slightly sulfurous, earthy smell". Below the naming line: fresh_spice for galbanum's "humid and peppery note" and the "raw, deep, and slightly spicy green note", mineral for the wet-dew side of the same evidence, cooling_mentholic because mint is one of the four named herbs, dry_woody for stems that have gone woody, sour and floral and leather, each from a single line in a single source. Sour is deliberately low: tomato leaf's "tangy layer" comes from one retailer blog and no second source ties it here.

ScentWheel

Breadthbroad

EnvelopeHeart · ~5h lasting

Family Green & Aromatic, Woody & Earthy

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

Origin

No single source. The term covers the vegetable and root end of the green family. The materials its own sources name are galbanum (undergrowth, potato, pea, peppery), violet leaf (cucumber, green bean, sulphurous, rasping leather), oakmoss and treemoss, 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. Fragrantica files it under "Fruits, vegetables and nuts" and calls it green, aquatic or earthy, bringing naturalness, freshness or rusticity. Perfumers use it to make a composition read as raw and outdoor rather than cooked or floral, and it sits under citrus and floral accords to stop them turning sweet.