Ingredients · Spices · Made in a lab
Carnation
Carnation absolute exists but is scarce and costly; the classic note is built from clove molecules.
- What it is
- A flower that gives no oil worth extracting, so perfumers rebuild its smell from other materials.
- How perfumers build it
- Known in
- Bellodgia (Caron, 1927)
- Worth knowing
- Eugenol, the main smell of cloves, is also the main smell of real carnations.
Not named by the house of any of the 1080 perfumes read so far.