Льон (flax)

АкордКВІТИквітковий · свіжий · зелений
Ноти серцяПіраміда
3/5Сила
—Стійкість
5Походження
Зразок
Льон (flax) як парфумерна сировина
Ноти серця
Linum usitatissimum
Фантазійний/концептуальний
Визначення

Vegetal, slightly oily, linen-clean. Flax smells like the fiber of a well-worn linen shirt — dry, cottony, faintly nutty, with a faint blue-flower note from the blossoms.

ДЕРЕВНИЙ КВІТКОВИЙ ЗЕЛЕНИЙ ПРОХОЛОДНИЙ СВІЖИЙ
LINSEED COMMON FLAX
Type
Акорд
Olfactive family
Квіткові
Source
flowers
Chemical class
No commercial perfumery material
Інструменти
Піраміда
ВВерхні ноти
СНоти серця
ББазові ноти
3/5Сила
Середня
інтенсивність запаху
Країни-виробники
Бельгія Канада Китай Франція Росія

Запах

Clean, dry, faintly vegetal. The fiber character dominates: linen-like, slightly cottony, with a whisper of the seed's nutty-oily quality. The flower adds a delicate blue-honeyed note if referenced. Like pressing your face into a sun-dried linen sheet — clean, warm, faintly grassy, entirely without heaviness.

Докладно

Flax (Linum usitatissimum) is the plant source of both linen fiber and linseed oil. In perfumery, it can reference two distinct olfactory characters: the delicate blue flowers (mild, faintly sweet, with a honey-green quality) or the processed fiber/oil (vegetal, nutty, slightly rancid-fatty).

The flower scent is subtle — five-petaled, sky-blue blooms with a mild, clean, faintly honeyed fragrance. No commercial flower extract exists. Linseed oil, from the seeds, has a particular nutty-fatty smell from alpha-linolenic acid (an omega-3 fatty acid that oxidizes readily, producing the characteristic drying-oil scent used in oil painting).

Linum usitatissimum is one of the oldest cultivated plants — flax fibers have been found in caves dating to 30,000 years ago. The plant is grown primarily in Canada, Russia, and Western Europe.

In perfumery, flax typically references the clean, dry, fiber quality of linen — a textile accord suggesting laundered fabric, summer, and light. The note is reconstructed rather than extracted.

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Related: Abelia · Almond Blossom · Alpha Terpineol · Alstroemeria · Alumroot · Amarillys · Amazon Moonflower · Amethyst Flower

Цікавий факт

Flax fibers found in Dzudzuana Cave, Georgia, have been radiocarbon-dated to approximately 30,000 years ago — making linen one of the oldest manufactured materials in human history, predating pottery by at least 15,000 years.

Отримання й хімія

Спосіб отримання

No commercial extraction of flax flowers exists for perfumery. Linseed oil (cold-pressed from seeds) is used in industrial applications (paints, varnishes) but not in fragrance. The flax/linen note in perfumery is entirely reconstructed from clean musks and green modifiers.

Формула
N/A — complex natural plant material
CAS
8001-26-1
Ботанічна назва
Linum usitatissimum
Зовнішній вигляд
Slender plant with blue flowers; seeds yield pale golden oil
Сила запаху
Середня
Синоніми
LINSEED COMMON FLAX
Статус IFRA
Див. примітку

Not subject to an IFRA Standard (51st Amendment)

Фізичні властивості
Нота
Linseed oil: specific_gravity 0.924–0.938 @ 25 °C, refractive_index 1.478–1.482

У парфумерії

Flax is a concept note reconstructed from clean musks (linen-laundry type), faint green materials (cis-3-hexenol at micro-dosage), and dry-warm textural modifiers. Functions as a clean, textile-adjacent base note in linen, laundry, and summer-light compositions. The flower aspect can be added with mild honeyed-green florals. The seed/oil character is rarely desired in fragrance. Used in clean-linen accords, summer compositions, and minimalist fragrances.

Роль у формулі
01підсилювач дифузії
02модифікатор
03фірмова нота
04компонент піднесення
05сполучний компонент
06формувач об’єму
Форми випуску
синтетичний акорд фантазійна нота

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