Basil Salon Formula
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Basil Salon Formula

Crushed fig leaves and sweet basil in a cool, clear floral breeze, opened by lemon and bergamot and resting on a soft green blossom

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SKU: GA-F00225-v1

What you’ll learn from this formula

A quiet, see-through body that lets a tiny green speak first

how a fig leaf can lead a scent that is mostly air

  • Main skill

    Transparency

    Almost half of the batch is a transparent floral air: a sheer, jasmine-like material and two soft, bergamot-like floral materials that smell of very little on their own. They make the formula feel open and cool, and because they are so quiet, a tiny amount of sharp leaf-green, about one part in a hundred, is enough to give the whole scent its name. A louder body would simply bury it.

  • Supporting skill

    The power of traces

    Why the sharpest green material, a metallic galbanum note, is weighed only as a one-in-ten solution: neat, a single drop would turn the cool leaf into a harsh edge, so it is kept to a thin, bright line.

  • Supporting skill

    Working with dilutions

    How a sweet, anise-like material and a touch of clove give the basil its character, and why the soft green blossom at the base was lowered so the formula stays within its limit as a fine fragrance.

  • Key materials

    AnetholeEthyl linaloolHelionalHexyl salicylatePhenethyl alcohol

    27 more materials · proportions only in the card you receive

  • Level

    Intermediate3 / 5

About

ProductDigital fragrance formula (file only)
TypeFragrance formula for functional products
Olfactive FamilyGreen Aromatic
GenderUnisex
Total Materials32
Total PDF Pages18 pages (English edition)
PyramidTop / Middle / Base
Top NotesLemon, Bergamot, Fig Leaf, Lime, Green Stem
Middle NotesBasil, Anise, Jasmine, Rose, Cyclamen, Clove
Base NotesGreen Blossom, Soft Wood, Clean Musk
Recommended UsageFragrance 15% · Shampoo, body & hand wash 1% of the finished product
DeliveryPDF download link by email, minutes after payment

Description

Some smells belong to one hot hour of summer: walking under a fig tree in full leaf, where the air is suddenly cool and green, faintly milky where a twig has broken. Someone has just brushed past a pot of basil, and its sweet, peppery leaf hangs in the air, sharpened by a squeeze of fresh lemon. Underneath, the scent is mostly air: a soft, see-through floral lightness, like linen dried in the shade, with only a whisper of rose. Nothing in it is heavy or sugary. As the day cools it settles into a clean green softness and a quiet musk that stays near the skin. For anyone who prefers the shade of the leaves to the ripe fruit.

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