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Beachheather

Q: Is Beachheather natural or synthetic?

. Extraction: No commercial extraction exists. Entirely synthetic concept note..

GREENS, HERBS AND FOUGERES / floral · green · fresh

Beachheather

Category	GREENS, HERBS AND FOUGERES
Subcategory	floral · green · fresh
Origin
Volatility	Heart Note
Botanical	Hudsonia tomentosa
Appearance	N/A — no commercial essential oil; low-growing coastal shrub with small yellow flowers
Odor Strength	Medium
Producing Countries	N/A — synthetic
Pyramid	Heart

Coastal green, faintly honeyed, with a salt-wind dryness. Beachheather smells like scrubland where sand meets vegetation.

Scent
The Full Story
Fun Fact
Extraction & Chemistry
In Perfumery

Scent

Green-herbal and faintly honeyed, with a dry mineral quality like warm sand. Less sweet than traditional heather, less sharp than coastal seaweed. A Mediterranean garrigue quality despite being a North American plant — scrubby, sun-dried, wind-swept.

Evolution over time

Immediately

Green-herbal freshness, faint honey, dry mineral sand

After a few hours

Warm scrubland quality, sun-baked vegetation

After a few days

Faint dry-green persistence, warm sandy trace

The Full Story

Beachheather (Hudsonia spp.) is a low-growing shrub native to North American coastal dunes and sandy barrens. The perfumery note is synthetic — no commercial extraction of this plant exists.

The scent concept carries the plant's habitat: sun-baked sand, coastal wind, low scrubby vegetation. The accord reads as green-herbal with a honeyed sweetness and dry, minerally quality. Less dense than heather (Calluna), less sharp than sea fennel. Think warm coastal scrubland rather than garden flowers.

Synthetic construction might layer green-herbaceous materials (thymol, carvacrol derivatives) with honey-like notes (phenylacetic acid) and a marine-mineral backdrop (calone, marine aldehydes). The result is atmospheric — evoking a place rather than isolating a single scent.

Hudsonia tomentosa (Woolly Beachheather) grows in nutrient-poor, acidic sand. Its yellow flowers appear briefly in late spring, lasting only a single day each.

This note in Première Peau. Simili Mirage · Gravitas Capitale. Sample all seven extraits in the Discovery Set.

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Related: Alpha Pinene · Angelica · Angelica Root · Angelica Root Oil · Artemisia · Barrenwort · Behini Tree · Beta Pinene

Did You Know?

Did you know?

Hudsonia tomentosa flowers last only a single day — they open at dawn and close permanently by noon. Despite this brevity, each plant can live for over 20 years, growing slowly in pure sand where almost nothing else survives.

Extraction & Chemistry

Extraction method: No commercial extraction exists. Entirely synthetic concept note.

Molecular Formula	N/A - natural plant material
CAS Number	N/A - natural plant
Botanical Name	Hudsonia tomentosa
IFRA Status	No known restrictions
Synonyms	HEATH · CALLUNA · HEATHER
Physical Properties
Odor Strength	Medium
Appearance	N/A — no commercial essential oil; low-growing coastal shrub with small yellow flowers

In Perfumery

Synthetic concept note providing coastal-green atmosphere. Functions as a modifier in marine, coastal, and Mediterranean compositions. No natural material exists. Built from herbal-green synthetics, honey-like aromatics, and mineral-marine elements. Useful for evoking sandy coastal landscapes.