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carnation

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