Happy St. Patrick’s Day! In honor of the day, let us rejoice in the “wearing of the green” — green fragrances, that is. I love green fragrances, as you might expect from a blogger whose nom de plume is “Old Herbaceous“, and my most difficult fragrance choice today will be to decide which of the many I own I will wear. (Another option might be to wear one of the fragrances I brought home from Ireland last summer, including some from the small independent perfumer The Burren Perfumery, but today I’ll probably go with a classic green). Today will be a celebration of “The Wearin’ O’ The Green”!
Image from Disney’s Fantasia 2000; http://www.disney.com
Fragrantica did one of its wonderful “Best in Show” columns last year on green fragrances, which you can read here: Best in Show: Green Fragrances (2018). As the editor notes, “green” can describe a wide range of fragrances and notes, which can include: galbanum, patchouli, vetiver, grasses, mosses, ivy, and leaves (especially tea and tomato), lime, basil, rosemary, mint, and cilantro, green mango and apple, conifer needles, bamboo, and more. Many of the muguet fragrances I love are quite green. As I’ve already written a lot about so many of those, and will again later this spring, I’ll pass over them as a category for now.
Some of the classic greens I own and love are Chanel No. 19, Chanel Cristalle, Annick Goutal Grand Amour, Gucci Envy, Balmain Vent Vert (the 1991 version, by Calice Becker), Jacomo Silences, Estee Lauder Azuree, Clinique Aromatics Elixir.
My newer green niche perfumes include (of course) Papillon’s Dryad, Beaufort London’s Fathom V, Amouage Bracken, L’Artisan Parfumeur’s The Pour Un Ete, Laboratorio Olfattivo’s Decou-Vert, DSH Perfumes Le Jardin Vert. There are others, but many of them I own only in small sample sizes, so I’m not counting them here!
Favorite green fragrances
While I know that “green” fragrances are said to be the least favored category of fragrance, I know many of you also love them. What are your favorites? Do you plan to wear a green fragrance today?
Mud Maid, The Lost Gardens of Heligan
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Happy St. Patrick’s Day to you too.
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I wore Grand Amour earlier in the week, but today I chose Twilly. Although I might pull out either Gucci envy or Jacomo Silences just to be in the spirit!
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Happy St Patrick’s Day! I don’t have many green fragrances but love Decou-Vert and Dryad. Love the Mud Maid photograph 🍀💚
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Thank you! It’s a lovely place to visit.
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i do not have many green scents, but if i hat to wear one, i would chose Chanel no 19 or Elephant by Zoologist
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I wore eau de Lierre. Some of my other favorite greens are the original Gap Grass (not the reform that came out in 2014 but the original from 1994), Aliage (vintage), Clinique Wrappings, 1000 Flowers Fleur no 1 ( no 19’s sweet younger “sister” …wish Jessica would bring this one back…such a gorgeous hyacinth fragrance), First Cut (the green juice makes me think of this one as green plus it smells like lush green meadows to my nose), eau de Givenchy, Calyx, Calandre, Metal and probably a dozen more that I can’t think of at the moment.
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and there’s galbanum and narcissus in Fleur no 1 as well so I think you would have loved it, OH!
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and one more…Eau de Camille..another d/c beauty..the dominant ivy note makes it green to me but the sweet honeysuckle tempers it….
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Great list! I like Wrappings too, and of course First Cut.
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