Kukuruzna svila
Pale, starchy sweetness — raw corn husk, warm hay, a faint vegetal milkiness. Not the butter-and-salt of cooked corn. This is the raw silk itself: blond, dry, and faintly green, like holding sun-warmed plant fibers to your nose.
- Type
- Akord
- Olfactive family
- Voćni
- Source
- stigmas (silk)
- Chemical class
- fantasy note (accord)
Miris
Detaljno
Zanimljivosti
In 1978, USDA chemists R.A. Flath and colleagues identified the volatile compounds of corn silk as chemical attractants for the corn earworm moth (Heliothis zea). The moth navigates to its host plant by following the scent trail of the silk's terpene emissions — the same molecules (linalool, geraniol, myrcene) that perfumers use in floral accords. The silk that feeds insect navigation also fed, indirectly, the perfumer's imagination.
Dobijanje i hemija
Način dobijanja
No commercial extraction exists for perfumery use. Corn silk is a fantasy note — its scent is reconstructed as a synthetic accord. GC-MS analysis of raw corn silk volatiles (El-Ghorab et al., J. Agric. Food Chem., 2007) identified 36 compounds in the dichloromethane extract, dominated by cis-alpha-terpineol (24.2%), citronellol (16.2%), and eugenol (4.4%). However, these analytical data describe the plant tissue's volatile profile, not a commercially available extract. No steam distillation, solvent extraction, or CO2 extraction of corn silk is practiced at industrial scale.
- Formula
- N/A — complex mixture of flavonoids, saponins, volatile compounds
- CAS
- N/A — natural material, complex mixture
- Botanički naziv
- Zea mays
- Jačina mirisa
- Srednji
- Sinonimi
- MAIZE SILK ZEA MAYS SILK
No known restrictions
- Nota
- Zea mays stigma (corn silk) contains volatile compounds including geraniol, limonene, and carvacrol. Used primarily in traditional medicine and as a perfumery fantasy note.
U parfemima
Fantasy note — no natural extract exists. Corn silk functions as a textural modifier in gourmand, grain-inspired, and soft-floral compositions. It provides starchy warmth and a dry, hay-adjacent sweetness without the density of vanilla or the sharpness of green notes. In practice, the accord is built from materials like ethyl maltol (grain sweetness), coumarin (hay, dried grass), heliotropin (powdery softness), and clean musks (textile warmth). The note occupies the heart-to-base register, lending quiet volume and a sense of sun-warmed softness. It works with lactonic peach notes, oat milk accords, linen musks, and tonka bean. No PREMIEREPEAU fragrance currently features a corn silk accord.
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