Ingredients · Spices · heart note

Clove bud oil

Sweet, rich clove with a fruity, slightly woody depth.

What it is

Natural oil from dried flower buds of Syzygium aromaticum.

Where it comes from

Madagascar, Indonesia, Zanzibar

When you smell it

Heart: as it settles.

What perfumers do with it

Gives warm clove to carnation, spicy oriental and amber accords; the finest clove grade.

Worth knowing

Clove oil has numbed toothache for centuries; its eugenol is a mild anaesthetic.

Rules

Limited. Limited through its eugenol content (IFRA; EU label-declared allergen).

Also called

Syzygium aromaticum bud oil

On the label of 26 of the 1080 perfumes read so far

Tobacco VanilleTom Ford · printed “Eugenia caryophyllus oil”Blessed BarakaInitio · printed “Eugenia caryophyllus oil”Oud for Greatness NeoInitio · printed “Eugenia caryophyllus oil”LustreAmouage · printed “Eugenia caryophyllus oil”ElsewhereAmouage · printed “Eugenia caryophyllus oil”Tonka MisfahAmouage · printed “Eugenia caryophyllus oil”

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Named by the house, not on the label, in 29

Jubilation XXV ManAmouage · “Clove”Memoir WomanAmouage · “Clove Bud”Jubilation 40 ManAmouage · “Clove”Santal SoharAmouage · “Clove”Beloved WomanAmouage · “Clove Bud”Replica By the FireplaceMaison Margiela · “Clove Oil”

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