Azola

Azolla is not a perfumery raw material in any traditional sense. No essential oil, no absolute, no CO2 extract exists commercially. It belongs to the category of fantasy notes — olfactory impressions reconstructed from synthetic building blocks to carries a specific environment.

The scent concept is aquatic-green with a mineral edge. Think stagnant pond rather than rushing stream: there is a warmth to it, a vegetal density that separates it from cleaner aquatic notes like calone or marine accords. The greenness is closer to crushed duckweed than to cut grass.

In practice, perfumers building an azolla-type accord might layer cis-3-hexenol (fresh leaf green) with dihydromyrcenol (metallic-aquatic) and a trace of geosmin (petrichor, wet earth). The result reads as swampy, humid, alive — useful in compositions that aim for tropical realism rather than abstract freshness.

No PREMIEREPEAU fragrance currently features this note.