Spinach

Green, vegetal, with a faint iron-metallic edge and a damp, chlorophyll-rich quality. Darker and heavier than lettuce, more metallic than grass, with a specific leaf-vegetable character. The iron gives it a slight blood-like quality absent from purely green notes. On skin, it fades quickly to a neutral green.

Spinach (Spinacia oleracea) as a fragrance note captures the raw, green, faintly metallic smell of fresh spinach leaves. The scent is driven by cis-3-hexenal (leaf aldehyde), chlorophyll degradation products, and the iron content that gives spinach its slightly metallic edge.

Cooked spinach smells dramatically different — sulfurous and cabbage-like from the breakdown of sulfur-containing amino acids. The raw-spinach fragrance note specifically references the fresh, uncooked leaf: green, slightly metallic, damp, and vegetal.

In perfumery, spinach is a niche green note that provides a darker, more mineral-metallic green than standard leaf-green chemicals. It belongs to the vegetable and green families.

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

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