

Ingredients · Florals · heart note
Carnation absolute
Warm, powdery clove-spiced floral with honey, green-olive and herbal notes.
- What it is
- Natural absolute from solvent-extracted carnation flowers.
- Where it comes from
- very small production
- When you smell it
- Heart: the first hours.
- What perfumers do with it
- Natural spicy-floral heart for carnation, oriental and rose-clove accords.
- Worth knowing
- It is so scarce that most 'carnation' in perfume is rebuilt from eugenol and isoeugenol.
- Rules
- Limited. Its eugenol counts toward IFRA's eugenol limit
- Also called
- Dianthus caryophyllus absolute; oeillet
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