Note

Currant Buds

Blackcurrant buds smell powerfully green and fruity, with tart berry and a distinctive sulfurous, sometimes catty edge. Tiny amounts give perfume openings and hearts vivid character beside citrus, rose, and other fruits.

In 3 perfumes.

Found in The Scent, Pasticcio and Peace at Casino Royale

Most popular with currant buds

The best-known perfumes carrying it anywhere in the pyramid.

Often paired with

Notes that show up next to currant buds more often than chance would predict.

Too few perfumes to say.

How it reads

Woody and green above all. Reaches for conifer, powdery and aromatic far more often than the catalogue as a whole, and rarely for vanilla.

  • woody
  • green
  • aromatic
  • citrus
  • powdery
  • fruity
  • white floral
  • floral