Ingredients · Green · top note
Violet leaf absolute
Intense green cucumber-watermelon and crushed leaf, with earthy, peppery depth.
- What it is
- Natural absolute from solvent-extracted leaves of sweet violet.
- Where it comes from
- France, Egypt
- When you smell it
- Top notes: the first minutes.
- What perfumers do with it
- Adds vivid, natural green-cucumber freshness; iconic in fresh masculines and green florals.
- Worth knowing
- It smells nothing like violet flowers; its signature molecule, 2,6-nonadienal, is the same one that smells of cucumber.
- Known in
- L'Origan (Coty, 1905); 1000 (Jean Patou, 1972)
- Also called
- Viola odorata leaf absolute
Named by the house, not on the label, in 20
Born in Roma UomoValentino · “Violet Leaf”
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Mojave GhostByredo · “Violet”DaisyMarc Jacobs · “White Violet”HerBurberry · “violet”Touch for MenBurberry · “violet leaves”
Stronger With YouArmani · “violet leaves”
Bal d'AfriqueByredo · “Violet”PleasuresEstée Lauder · “Violet Leaves”FahrenheitDior · “Violet”
Violette 30Le Labo · “white violet”
Mojave GhostByredo · “Violet”DaisyMarc Jacobs · “White Violet”HerBurberry · “violet”Touch for MenBurberry · “violet leaves”Stronger With YouArmani · “violet leaves”Bal d'AfriqueByredo · “Violet”PleasuresEstée Lauder · “Violet Leaves”FahrenheitDior · “Violet”Violette 30Le Labo · “white violet”Sources