Horseweed

Sharp, pungent, herbaceous-green with a turpentine-like freshness and a lemon-grassy edge. More aggressive than basil, less clean than rosemary, with a distinctly weedy, roadside quality. The limonene gives it a citrus note; the pinene gives it a piney sharpness. Wild and uncomposed.

Horseweed (Erigeron canadensis, syn. Conyza canadensis) is a common weed native to North America, now invasive worldwide. The plant produces a small quantity of essential oil with a sharp, herbaceous-green, faintly citrusy character. The volatile profile includes limonene, alpha-pinene, and trans-beta-ocimene.

In perfumery, horseweed is a rare note providing a sharp, wild-herbal green character. It is less clean than conventional aromatic herbs (lavender, rosemary), more pungent, and more 'weedy' -- the smell of abandoned fields and roadsides rather than cultivated gardens.

Functionally, horseweed works as a sharp green top-note modifier. It provides a wild, uncultivated botanical reference. Works in wild-nature, green-herbal, and hyper-naturalistic compositions.

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

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