Trèfle Incarnat

A lovely little pastoral scene made out of amyl salicylate. That individual aromachemical, smelled close up, is bizarre and hard to describe in my opinion. It does have an herbal/green facet, but also a bitterness and a plasticky note to it. In isolation, I can't imagine centering a perfume on it, but I also recognize it as a ubiquitous ingredient that is a part of countless things I'd smelled before. Trefle Incarnat, like Fougere Royale, feels more like a chord or a "scene" than a scented journey with a strong top-base-mid structure. Amyl salicylate is paired with something more floral (maybe ylang ylang?) and what feels like coumarin because of its grassiness, but it isn't super sweet or overused. When smelled at a distance, the sillage of this definitely evokes what it is meant to evoke--a clover field in all its slightly sweet, green floralcy. I also wonder what it would smell like placed in the structure of a more complex perfume. This was definitely a genre of perfume populated by many members, as I've smelled a number of "pastorally themed" scents from the era that play with this exact accord. Richard Hudnut's Yanky Clover feels like the most direct descendant of this in style and, obviously, in name.