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Blackberry Leaf

Q: Is Blackberry Leaf natural or synthetic?

. Extraction: No commercial extraction exists. Conceptual note reconstructed from synthetic green-leaf materials..

GREENS, HERBS AND FOUGERES / green · fruity · fresh

Blackberry Leaf

Category	GREENS, HERBS AND FOUGERES
Subcategory	green · fruity · fresh
Origin
Volatility	Heart Note
Botanical	Rubus fruticosus
Appearance	Trifoliate green serrated leaves, often with thorny petioles
Odor Strength	Medium
Producing Countries	Europe, North America
Pyramid	Heart

Green, astringent, tea-like. Crushed blackberry leaf smells like a rougher, less clean green tea — tannin-dry with a faint fruity undertone.

Scent
The Full Story
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Extraction & Chemistry
In Perfumery

Scent

Green, dry, tannic. Like an unrefined green tea with a twig-like roughness. There is a faint fruity sweetness hiding underneath the astringency — a ghost of blackberry fruit that never quite arrives. Drier and more structured than violet leaf, less bitter than galbanum.

Evolution over time

Immediately

Green, tannic freshness, dry leaf, slight astringency

After a few hours

Tea-like warmth, subtle fruity undertone

After a few days

Dry, woody-green residue, tannin persistence

The Full Story

Blackberry leaf (Rubus fruticosus) has a green, tannic, slightly astringent scent when fresh and a dry, tea-like quality when dried. No commercial essential oil or absolute is produced from the leaves for perfumery.

The olfactory concept targets the gap between green tea and garden foliage: tannin-dry, moderately bitter, with a faint fruity sweetness from the Rubus connection. Less clean than true tea, more structured than generic 'green leaf.'

In practice, the note is built from green-leaf synthetics (cis-3-hexenyl salicylate for a woody-green character, gamma-octalactone for a faint fruity undertone) and possibly methyl salicylate for the tannic-wintergreen edge that dried Rubus leaves can possess.

Blackberry leaves have a long history in herbal medicine as an astringent — high tannin content makes them useful for treating minor mouth and throat inflammations. This tannin quality directly informs the perfumery interpretation.

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

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Did You Know?

Did you know?

Blackberry leaf tea was a standard field remedy in the British Army during World War I — soldiers brewed it as a treatment for dysentery when medical supplies ran low, relying on the leaves' high tannin content as a natural astringent.

Extraction & Chemistry

Extraction method: No commercial extraction exists. Conceptual note reconstructed from synthetic green-leaf materials.

Molecular Formula	N/A — complex leaf material (tannins, flavonoids, gallic acid)
CAS Number	N/A — no single CAS (leaf)
Botanical Name	Rubus fruticosus
IFRA Status	No known restrictions
Synonyms	BRAMBLE LEAF
Physical Properties
Odor Strength	Medium
Appearance	Trifoliate green serrated leaves, often with thorny petioles

In Perfumery

Fantasy green note providing tannic, tea-like character. No natural extraction exists. Built from green-leaf synthetics and tannic-astringent materials. Useful in green-tea, garden, and naturalistic compositions where generic 'green' is too vague. Adds dry, structured vegetal texture.