Note · Green notes
Tomato leaf
Solanum lycopersicum
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Tomato leaf evokes the sharp, very green smell left on the fingers by the plant's stems in the garden, at once vegetal, peppery and slightly earthy.
What it brings
A raw, unexpected greenness.
Origins and uses
The tomato, Solanum lycopersicum, is a plant of the nightshade family that originated in the Andean regions of north-western South America; it is thought to have been domesticated in Mexico, before reaching Spain in the early sixteenth century. Its stems and leaves bear glandular hairs containing an essential oil: this gives the plant its characteristic smell, so different from that of the fruit.
In perfumery, tomato leaf is a recreated note. Raw-material suppliers offer molecules such as 2-isobutylthiazole for this purpose, described as very green, herbaceous and strikingly realistic, to be handled in very weak dilution. The note brings a sharp, almost peppery greenness that evokes a vegetable garden in high summer.
In our catalogue, tomato leaf opens Italian Leather by Memo Paris, with juniper berries and pink pepper, before a base of vanilla leather.
Text written with the help of AI, based on reference sources: encyclopedias, raw-material manufacturers and official information from the fragrance houses.
Material profile
- Family
- Green notes
- Nature
- Perfumer’s accord
- Botanical name
- Solanum lycopersicum
- Origin
- A recomposed note, inspired by the leaves and stems of the tomato plant.
- How it is obtained
- Recomposed by the perfumer
- On Volute
- 1 fragrance