White Nettle Flower
A green floral accord inspired by the white flowers and leaves of white dead-nettle.
Floral
About White Nettle Flower
White nettle flower takes its botanical inspiration from Lamium album, a perennial in the mint family with white, tubular flowers. Also called white dead-nettle, it has nettle-shaped leaves but belongs to a different family from stinging nettle; in perfumery, its flowers and surrounding greenery can be interpreted together as an accord.
Scent Profile
The central impression combines greener leaves with lighter floral softness, suggesting flowers growing among herbs rather than a dense bouquet of white blossoms. A slightly spicy edge can give the greener character a more lively outline, while the floral aspect keeps the impression from becoming solely leafy or sharply herbal.
Use in Perfumery
Within a green floral composition, a white nettle flower accord can provide a meeting point between the opening freshness and the gentler flowers at the heart. Bergamot offers a brighter citrus contrast, while grassy and rose-like impressions can extend the feeling of less cultivated vegetation. These are ways of describing and composing an olfactory impression, rather than a description of an essential oil extracted from the flower.
Did You Know?
The flowers gather in whorls around the leaf axils, with a hooded upper lip above the lower part of each tubular bloom. Their deeper nectar is particularly accessible to longer-tongued insects such as bumblebees, which help pollinate the plant.
