Feuilles de Fantome (Ghost - Leaves)

Feuilles de Fantome

Notes: another green garden recreation. This time looking for the smell equivelant of a plant halo, like Kirlian photographs of plant auras from the 70's, but in smell.The approach from my notes went something like;

Hedione, Galaxolide,MPHyd(ctnll)accord, Hellional, Linalool, Scentanal, C(rdm),C(orndr), Cis 3 hex, Blck (P), Menthol, P(mnt) + Phenylacealdehyde tweaked in later.

3 months later what started as a promising attempt, got blown away by the Phenylacealdehyde.It must have been put in at way high dose, because now it smells like a 300ft high flower creature, with an echoe of that once ghostly green halo, far, far, away in the distance.
It might be rescued by dilution.

What I was looking for and didnt get, was extreme linearity. Simply - fresh cold air -crushed plants. When you look at whats in the thing, somehow I am not surprised !

Menthol derivatives, mixed with ozonic molecules as an accord. It would be nice to have the cooling effect without the minti-ness. And a super fixative that would just lock in any note and make it last for ages.



A "chain" of 1 carbon is meth- or sometimes form- (as in formate, formic acid).
A chain of 2 carbons is eth- or
acet-
3 carbons = prop-
4 carbons = but-
5 carbons = pent- or valer- or amyl
6 carbons = hexa-
7 carbons = hepta-
8 carbons = octa-
9 carbons = nona-
10 carbons = deca-
11carbons = undeca-
12 carbons = dodeca-
13 carbons = trideca-and so forth.

If the "number" has "iso-" in front of it, it means the chain isn't straight, but has branches but still the same number of carbons.Di does mean 2, tri means three. But they aren't used to describe carbon chain lengths but rather, for example, how many hydroxyl groups. -ol, the alcohol group.Test questions: How many carbon atoms does Ethanol have? Methanol? Propanol? Isopropanol? Butanol? Amyl alcohol? (from Mike Storer)