A hay meadow in a bottle? There are a few scents, yes, which capture the sweet, grassy, earthy warmth of hay, which also has almost animalic qualities. (Think: barns…) It’s not the actual essence-of-dried-pasture – used to feed cattle, horses, goats and sheep – that you’ll smell in a perfume bottle, however: hay notes are created synthetically – yet they’re no less glorious for that… (Do also read about coumarin, here: it’s another, quite similar synthetic, which gives us the scent of new-mown grass…)
Smell hay in:
Etat Libre d’Orange Jasmin et Cigarette
Frederic Malle Bigarade Concentrée
Frederic Malle Cologne Bigarade
Lush Smell of Weather Turning
Miller Harris Jasmin Vert
