Льон (flax)

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.
- Type
- Акорд
- Olfactive family
- Квіткові
- Source
- flowers
- Chemical class
- No commercial perfumery material
Запах
Докладно
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
Not subject to an IFRA Standard (51st Amendment)
- 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.