Note
Cloves
Cloves smell pungent and warm, with woody sweetness and a sharp medicinal spice. They add warmth to the heart and base and pair with carnation, rose, amber, and woods.
In 30 perfumes. Usually found in the opening.
- Opening
- 52%
- Heart
- 39%
- Drydown
- 9%
Most popular with cloves
The best-known perfumes carrying it anywhere in the pyramid.
Often paired with
Notes that show up next to cloves more often than chance would predict.
How it reads
Sweet and woody above all. Reaches for warm spicy and balsamic far more often than the catalogue as a whole.
- sweet
- woody
- warm spicy
- vanilla
- balsamic
- citrus
- fruity
- amber