Dianthus

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Dianthus, the carnation/pinks note, smells sweetly floral yet distinctly clove‑spicy, with peppery, rosy and faintly green nuances that can feel powdery, honeyed and a touch soapy, evoking vintage elegance and warm, ruffled petals. A traditional heart note, it is often recreated with eugenol‑rich accords and used to bridge rose and other florals, adding a gently piquant warmth and powdery body to chypres, orientals and barbershop fougères, and pairing well with aldehydes, heliotrope, musks and woods.

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