Walnut Wood
Note Profile
About
Walnut wood is Juglans timber, and it is a quiet note. Both sources describe a faint, mild smell that shows up while the wood is being cut or sanded and is not noticeable otherwise. What is there is dry wood with a light nutty edge and a little earth.
Scent Profile
Walnut wood is a quiet, faint dry wood smell, mild rather than dominant. It shows up mostly while the wood is being cut or sanded, and stays unnoticeable otherwise. A light nutty edge runs through it, mildly so rather than strongly. A little earthy quality sits alongside the nuttiness.
ScentWheel
Read off the wheel, not a label applied to the note.
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Origin
The timber of trees in the genus Juglans, most often J. nigra in North America and J. regia in Europe. The Wood Database records that black walnut 'has a faint, mild odor when being worked' and that the odour is shared across most Juglans species except butternut, which makes it usable to tell walnut from lookalike timbers. No supplier lists a walnut wood essential oil or extract, and no manufacturer publishes an olfactive description, so both sources here describe solid worked timber rather than a perfumery raw material.
Usage in Perfumery
A base wood for texture rather than for smell. Use it where a composition needs a wood that reads as furniture and warmth without adding volume, under nut, tobacco, vanilla and soft leather. It cannot lead. Attested on 3 Parfumo placements across 3 brands and absent from Fragrantica, so it is shared vocabulary rather than one house's copy.
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