Очерет

Dry, hollow, and faintly sweet — the smell of sun-dried river grass. Reed carries wetl and margins, not water itself: papery stalks, warm starch, and the quiet rustle of Phragmites in wind.
- Type
- Акорд
- Olfactive family
- Ароматичні
- Source
- leaves and flowering tops
Запах
Докладно
Цікавий факт
Phragmites australis (common reed) is a widely distributed plants on Earth, found on every continent except Antarctica. A single stand can spread via rhizomes to cover several hectares. The stalks have been used for thatching, paper-making, and musical instruments (clarinet and oboe reeds are cut from Arundo donax, a related species) for at least 5,000 years.
Отримання й хімія
Спосіб отримання
No commercial essential oil or absolute of reed (Phragmites australis) exists in standard perfumery supply chains. The note is a compounded accord. Some artisanal perfumers create tinctures by macerating dried Phragmites stalks in ethanol, yielding a faint, starchy, dry-green liquid, but this is not commercially standardized.
- Формула
- N/A — olfactory accord
- CAS
- N/A — olfactory accord
- Ботанічна назва
- Phragmites australis
- Зовнішній вигляд
- Colorless to pale green liquid
- Сила запаху
- Середня
- Синоніми
- CATTAIL
Not applicable: accord or concept, not a single material
- Нота
- N/A — olfactory accord / concept
У парфумерії
Reed is an atmospheric accord note in perfumery, evoking the vegetal, papery quality of dried Phragmites or cattail stalks. It functions as a heart-to-base green note that is drier and less sharp than galbanum, less aquatic than water-lily, and more specifically 'marshland' than generic green accords. The note is typically constructed using dry-green molecules (cis-3-hexenol at low doses for a faded-green impression), papery-starchy notes (Cashmeran, methyl laitone), woody-grassy materials (vetiver, lemongrass traces), and sometimes a clean aquatic undercurrent (Calone at trace levels, or Hedione). Reed accords appear in aquatic-naturalistic compositions, garden-themed fragrances, and minimalist green structures where the goal is territory rather than bouquet.