Cyclamen

Cyclamen is a fresh green floral note with watery petals, clean musk, soft spice, and airy brightness.

Aquatic

Cyclamen

About Cyclamen

Cyclamen is a fresh green floral note with watery petals, clean air, and a delicate transparent character. It is usually more about pale floral atmosphere than a heavy or sweet flower effect.

Scent Profile

The profile is light, watery, green, softly floral, and slightly powdery. It can suggest lily of the valley, peony, cool petals, clean musk, and a faint spicy brightness.

Use in Perfumery

Cyclamen works from the opening into the heart with musks, muguet accords, peony, rose, citrus, green notes, watery materials, and pale woods. It can lighten florals and give a perfume a clean airy heart.

Did You Know?

That makes cyclamen useful in soft floral musks and transparent spring-like compositions. It can add watery brightness without making a perfume smell like an aquatic accord. Peony and muguet can enhance its pale petal quality, while musk extends the softness into the clean drydown with ease and quiet graceful transparency throughout the composition. Cyclamen notes are often atmospheric accords. They help perfumers communicate pale color, fresh petals, and watery clarity rather than a heavy botanical extract.

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