Clove

About Clove

Clove is a powerful warm spice note inspired by clove buds. It brings sweet heat, medicinal sharpness, woody depth, and a floral warmth that can link spices with classic carnation-like floral effects.

Scent Profile

The profile is spicy, sweet, warm, pungent, and slightly medicinal. It is sharper than cinnamon, rounder than pepper, and more floral than many dry spices. The effect can be comforting or dramatic.

Use in Perfumery

Clove works from the heart into the base with rose, carnation, cinnamon, amber, tobacco, leather, woods, vanilla, and resins. It can add heat to sweetness and give florals a vintage, spicy structure.

Did You Know?

Used carefully, clove adds richness without turning the whole composition medicinal. It can make roses darker, ambers hotter, and tobacco accords feel more old-world and textured. Its spicy power is best balanced with warmth or sweetness from resins, flowers, and vanilla materials underneath the accord. Clove owes much of its recognizable character to eugenol-like spicy facets. Because the note is strong, traces can be enough to create warmth, density, and a clear spicy outline.