🍅 The Inspiration: The Potager
A French vegetable garden (Potager) in August. Crushed Tomato Vine explores the "Vegetal" side of green. It captures the unique, fuzzy, green-spicy scent of tomato leaves and vines. It is quirky, nostalgic, and hyper-realistic. A scent for the true green lover.
🧪 The Olfactory Architecture: Fuzzy Green
The scent opens with Tomato Leaf Accord and Basil. It is herbal and savory. The heart is Galbanum and Blackcurrant Bud (Cassis). The base is Vetiver and Soil. It smells like gardening hands.
🌿 Raw Material Sourcing: The Garden
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Tomato Leaf Absolute (Synthetic Reconstruction): As tomato leaves yield no oil, we recreated the scent using Stemone and minty molecules to capture that fuzzy, green snap.
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Basil Oil (Egypt): Adds a spicy, clove-like anise note.
🧠 The Scent Psychology: Nostalgia and Home
The scent of tomato vines often triggers childhood memories of gardens and summer. Crushed Tomato Vine is comforting in an unconventional way. It connects us to the source of our food and nature.
🇬🇧 The London Lab Technology
We used Scent-Hologram. Creating a scent that feels 3D—you can smell the fuzz on the vine, the dirt on the root, and the sun on the leaf.
✨ The Application Ritual
When to wear: Weekends, farmers markets, cooking classes, or picnics.
Where to spray: Wrists.
Style pairing: Denim, gingham, straw bags, and casual comfort.
💭 From the Perfumer's Diary
"It's polarizing. You either love it or hate it. But if you love it, you are obsessed. It smells like summer in the garden. Pure nostalgia."
