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Quick answers
What is Green?
Galbanum, snapped stem and tomato leaf — the florist's knife and the garden before bloom.
EDP vs EDT — what changes?
Concentration is oil in alcohol, not a quality score. EDT (about 5–15%) shows more top; EDP (about 15–20%) shows more heart and base. Houses vary; this is not a lab assay.
How should I wear Green?
One or two sprays on skin or cloth — sternum or hair, not a cloud in a lift. Let it turn an hour before you add more.
Which season fits?
Spring daylight. Night and wool can turn green into ink.
Does skin chemistry change it?
Yes. Warm, moist skin amplifies sweet and spice; dry or cool skin can turn the same juice woody, soapy or short. Test on your skin, not only a blotter.
What about IFRA and oakmoss?
IFRA sets industry limits on some naturals and synthetics. A reformulation is usually a legal edit, not a betrayal. This atlas is not a safety sheet.
The market for Green runs from body mist to otto extrait.
Chanel, Guerlain and niche counters share a family and disagree on dose.
Houses
- Balmain — Vent Vert.
- Chanel — No. 19.
- Estée Lauder — Aliage, Private Collection.
- Jacomo — Silences.
- Hermès — Garden-leaf études.
- Niche indies — Galbanum as anti-sugar.
Price bands
- Green EDT — Hexenol-forward, short.
- Designer green floral — No. 19 descendants.
- Niche leaf — Tomato, fig, stem studies.
- Vintage extraits — Pre-IFRA mossy greens.
Trends
- Garden realism — Cuisine leaves.
- Anti-gourmand green — Bitter as virtue.
- Fig-milk leftover — 1990s green-sweet still in print.
- Evernyl floors — Moss-free forest.
Stats
- Galbanum origin — Iranian Ferula gums still matter.
- 1947 shock — Vent Vert dated “green” as modern, not rustic only.
- Hexenol life — Minutes, not hours, on skin.
- Cultural impact — Lower than rose or No. 5 — a specialists’ family.
Price is not quality; it is harvest, IFRA and a story about Green.
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