Galbanum

Prada

Infusion d'Iris is iris interpreted as a cold slab of polished stone.

Chanel

The opening lands crisp and herbal—petitgrain and lavender tempered by rosemary's bitter edge, with neroli lending a trace of citrus brightness.

Creed

Green Irish Tweed opens with a bright, almost electric freshness—lemon verbena sharpness tempered by the cool powderiness of iris.

Cacharel

Anaïs Anaïs opens with a rush of green galbanum and citrus that feels both bracing and soft, like stepping into a flower shop on a damp spring morning.

Diptyque

The fig tree in its entirety—leaves, bark, milky sap, and fruit—captured with almost documentary precision.

Cerruti

1881 opens with a rush of white flowers—jasmine and lily of the valley foremost—tempered by the green snap of violet leaf and a whisper of bergamot.

Creed

Silver Mountain Water opens with a rush of cool bergamot that feels almost metallic in its crispness, like air at high altitude.

Azzaro

Chrome opens with a bracing citrus clarity—lemon and bergamot sharpened by green rosemary and an unexpected brightness from pineapple that reads more aquatic than tropical.

Salvador Dalí

The opening bursts with ripe, almost candied fruit—pineapple and raspberry lead, backed by plum and peach, with grapefruit adding a bright citrus edge that keeps it from collapsing into pure sweetness.

Chanel

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Lancôme

The opening is a green ambush—galbanum and bergamot cut through rose and raspberry like light through stained glass, sharp and resinous rather than sweet.

Chanel

A sharp green blast announces N°19 before anything else—galbanum slicing through neroli and bergamot like a knife through silk.

Chanel

The opening is brisk and green—galbanum cuts through neroli and bergamot with a sharpness that feels almost austere.

Creed

Royal Oud opens with a sharp flick of pink pepper and citrus, brief and clarifying, before settling into its true character: a dry, almost austere composition centered on cedarwood that reads more like polished wood than classic oud.

Roja Dove

Elysium opens with a rush of brightness—lime and grapefruit meeting the green snap of galbanum and thyme.

Estée Lauder

Beautiful opens with a bright citrus flare softened by the green bite of galbanum, before lily and rose assert themselves in a distinctly eighties register—full-bodied, unapologetic, slightly metallic.

Guy Laroche

A green floral from an era when perfume didn't whisper.

The Body Shop

The Body Shop's white musk opens with a bright, green flutter—basil and galbanum lending an herbal clarity before ylang-ylang and lily soften the entrance.

Tom Ford

A sun-drenched sibling to the original Soleil Blanc, this eau version opens with a brisk citrus haze—neroli and bergamot sharpened by pink pepper—that quickly gives way to a creamy white floral core.

Amouage

Lyric Man opens with a fleeting brightness—lime and bergamot dissolve almost immediately into a radiant haze of saffron and rose.

Givenchy

Ysatis opens with a blast of galbanum so green it feels almost medicinal, tempered by plush coconut and a heady dose of ylang-ylang.

Dior

The original Miss Dior opens with a green sharpness—galbanum and sage cutting through gardenia's creamy heft—before cascading into a white floral avalanche.

Ralph Lauren

Safari opens with a sharp green thrust—galbanum and blackcurrant cutting through citrus brightness like sunlight through canvas.

Dior

Tendre Poison opens with a brief, bright bergamot before dissolving into a honeyed floral haze.

Etat Libre D'Orange

The opening is a stark collision: bright jasmine absolute meets the acrid, papery scent of tobacco ash.

Caron

Yatagan opens with a bracingly herbal collision—mint and galbanum strike first, followed by lavender and basil that feel more medicinal than soothing.

Frédéric Malle

French Lover opens with a sharp burst of galbanum that feels cold and green, almost aggressive in its brightness.

Prada

A glassy, translucent vetiver that smells more like filtered light than earth.

Amouage

Beach Hut Man opens with a jolt of green—galbanum sharp as snapped stems, mint cool but not sweet, orange blossom lending a faint bitter floral edge.

Robert Piguet

Bandit opens with a blast of bitter galbanum that cuts through the white flowers like a knife through silk.

Cartier

Must de Cartier opens with a sharp-sweet collision of tropical fruit and bitter galbanum, a pairing that feels distinctly eighties but never garish.

Gucci

Bloom Acqua di Fiori opens with a crisp citrus transparency that immediately softens into something dewy and green.

Jacques Bogart

One Man Show opens with a bracing slap of galbanum and basil over citrus, green and almost medicinal before the real architecture emerges.

Dior

The opening is a brisk citrus wave—petitgrain's green bitterness tempered by lemon and bergamot—that conjures Mediterranean mornings without the usual sunscreen sweetness.

Etat Libre D'Orange

The opening reads like a riddle—tart black currant pressed against vegetal galbanum, a contrast that feels both lush and austere.

Guerlain

Vol de Nuit opens with a tense brightness—citrus and galbanum cut through the darkness like runway lights, while narcissus adds a green, almost medicinal edge.

Estée Lauder

The opening announces itself with bright citrus and orange blossom, but there's a green, almost resinous edge underneath—galbanum lending a sharp, old-fashioned formality.

Memo Paris

The opening strikes with an unexpected sharpness—green tomato leaf cutting through supple leather like sunlight on a stone wall.

Bvlgari

Bvlgari Extreme opens with a citrus accord that feels almost architectural—petitgrain and neroli layered over grapefruit and bergamot, sharp enough to cut through but never shrill.

Oscar De La Renta

The opening arrives as a bright clash of herbal basil and soft peach against a haze of orange blossom, establishing Oscar's signature contradiction: it reads as both fresh and baroque.

Lancôme

Bergamot arrives bright and oddly mineral, like sun on limestone rather than citrus grove.

Guerlain

Chamade opens with a brightness that feels almost translucent—bergamot lifting pale roses and jasmine into something radiant rather than opulent.

L'Artisan Parfumeur

Premier Figuier established fig as a serious perfumery accord before it became a genre.

Yves Saint Laurent

Saharienne is a lean, sun-washed citrus-aromatic that resists the usual French-house inclination toward richness.

Cerruti

Cerruti 1881 for men opens with a bracing lavender-bergamot chord sharpened by galbanum's green snap—a classic masculine salvo that feels tailored and composed, like a pressed linen shirt.

Houbigant

Quelques Fleurs arrived in 1912, before Chanel N°5, and introduced the idea that a perfume could be a fantasy floral rather than a single ingredient.

Sisley

Galbanum — the bitter, almost medicinal green resin that defined 1970s perfumery — opens Eau de Campagne with a sharpness that feels simultaneously archaic and bracing.

Amouage

Myths Woman opens in a register that feels deliberately anticlimactic — violet leaf and galbanum give a cold, bitter-green impression rather than anything welcoming.

Halston

Z-14 opens with an unusual bright-green thrust: basil and citrus cutting through a creamy gardenia haze.

Etat Libre D'Orange

Tom of Finland opens in birch and galbanum — a raw, slightly medicinal-green combination that reads immediately as northern: cold air, forest, birch tar.

Goutal

Ninfeo Mio opens with petitgrain and galbanum — a combination so green and slightly bitter that it smells like a place rather than a product.

Animale

Animale Animale for Men arrived in 1994 with a combination — pineapple, cocoa, vanilla, lavender — that reads like it arrived a decade early.

Maison Martin Margiela

Lipstick On is a precise exercise in olfactory memory: the smell of classic lipstick, specifically the powdery-waxy-floral quality of mid-century cosmetics.

Jacomo

Galbanum opens it with that sharp, almost aggressive vegetable-green bite, softened by orange blossom and the citrus freshness of lemon and bergamot.

Chanel

No.19 opens with galbanum — that sharp, intensely green, almost metallic vegetable-leaf note — alongside neroli's delicate bitter-orange blossom.

Coty

Aspen for Men arrives crisp and green — bergamot and lemon sharpened by galbanum in an opening that smells like cold mountain air translated into cologne.

Pierre Balmain

Ivoire arrives with the green precision of the classic chypre school — violet leaf and galbanum opening into a cool, slightly vegetal freshness that belongs to an earlier decade of femininity.

MDCI Parfums

Chypre Palatin is a declaration of intent — a traditional chypre that doesn't apologize for its architecture.

Oscar De La Renta

Pour Lui opens with the assertive green-herbal swagger of 1980 masculinity — sage, basil, galbanum, and lavender in a cool aromatic rush cut by anise and bergamot.

Vilhelm Parfumerie

Bergamot opens with a clean, slightly bitter citrus snap, but the sharpness is brief.

Cacharel

Premier Délice reframes Anaïs Anaïs for a contemporary sensibility — the galbanum green note from the original appears here in the top alongside pear and bergamot, anchoring the fragrance in the house's heritage while moving toward lighter, airier territory.

Diptyque

Fig dominates from the first second — green, milky, and slightly sappy, with the fruit's coconutty-lactonic character pushing forward immediately.

Paloma Picasso

Minotaure opens with an assertive aromatic bite — tarragon's anise-green sharpness set against the cold, sappy quality of galbanum and a slice of bergamot.

Etat Libre D'Orange

Rien Intense Incense opens with a burst of aldehydes that feels almost surgical—bright, metallic, cutting through the air before the incense arrives.

Frédéric Malle

Synthetic Jungle opens with a sharp green provocation — galbanum's cold, sappy bitterness alongside basil's aromatic herb, with black currant adding a dark, jammy contrasting note.

Tom Ford

The opening shivers with ginger's bright sting softened by bergamot, but this brightness doesn't linger.

S.T. Dupont

The melon and blackcurrant arrive cold and dewy, brushed with galbanum's green bitterness—a fruit-forward opening that nods to the late nineties without tipping into pure nostalgia.

Moschino

The opening jolts with tart plum and bitter galbanum, a green-fruited collision that feels deliberately contrary to eighties excess.

Yohji Yamamoto

A sharp green opening announces itself with unmistakable galbanum—bitter, leafy, almost metallic—softened just slightly by bergamot's citrus brightness.

Dior

The original Miss Dior Eau de Toilette opens with a sharp snap of green galbanum that feels almost medicinal in its clarity—a blast of leafy bitterness that announces itself without apology.

Acqua Di Parma

Colonia Club opens with a bright citrus rush—neroli and bergamot lifted by a flash of mint that reads more aromatic than sweet.

Sisley

Soir d'Orient is a warm, resinous eastern composition that skips the usual oud-heavy formula for something softer and more diffuse.

Dior

The opening is bright and green, with galbanum lending a crisp, almost bitter freshness to the bergamot's citrus spark.

Givenchy

The opening is bracingly green—galbanum sharpened by cassis and a menthol-cool blast of mint that announces itself without hesitation.

Mugler

The original Alien's otherworldly jasmine gets a citrus-vetiver makeover here, opening with a pulse of bitter galbanum and candied orange that feels more grounded than its predecessor.

Van Cleef & Arpels

A powdery floral from an era when perfumes still knew how to whisper.

Tom Ford

Italian Cypress opens with a sharp green jolt—galbanum and mint collide in a way that feels more medicinal than refreshing, as if stepping into a cool stone chapel.

Yves Saint Laurent

Y opens with a sharp, resinous galbanum that slices through gardenia's white petals and a hint of overripe peach.

Rochas

Rochas Mystère opens with a sharp galbanum-and-bergamot strike that feels almost metallic in its brightness, a green jolt that clears the air before the florals arrive.

Goutal

Grand Amour opens with the cool, watery green of lily—pale petals suspended in morning light.

Ted Lapidus

The opening arrives as a bright citrus-green salvo—bergamot and galbanum cut through fuzzy peach and sharp cassis, the neroli lending a slightly bitter, petalled edge.

Revlon

A sharp gardenia-galbanum flourish announces itself immediately, cutting through the air with a green brightness that feels distinctly of its era.

Loewe

Esencia Pour Homme opens with a rush of citrus and green herbs—lavender and tarragon cutting through bergamot and petitgrain with almost medicinal sharpness.

Donna Karan

DKNY My NY opens with a tart raspberry fizz tempered by the green bite of galbanum and a prickle of pink pepper.

Maison Crivelli

The opening strikes with sharp pink pepper and green galbanum, a brief flare of brightness that quickly gives way to something darker.

Pierre Balmain

A brilliant crack of galbanum and citrus announces Ivoire de Balmain with typical late-seventies bravado, all bitter greenness and bergamot brightness.

Hugo Boss

Hugo Red opens with a sharp, citric bite—grapefruit cutting through pink pepper and green galbanum—that feels more astringent than sweet.

Bill Blass

Bill Blass nude opens with the taut green snap of galbanum and rosemary, a crisp vegetal brightness that feels more architectural than pastoral.

Cartier

Santos de Cartier opens with a bracing clash of medicinal lavender and sharp galbanum, tempered by neroli's bitter-green citrus.

Dsquared2

She Wood Velvet Forest Wood opens with a sharp green bite—crisp violet leaves and mandarin that feel almost sap-like against bare skin.

Dior

Eau Sauvage Cologne opens with the bright snap of grapefruit, cutting through with a citrus clarity that feels both bracing and clean.

Yohji Yamamoto

A pale, skeletal composition that feels deliberately underfed.

Penhaligon'S

Bluebell opens with a spark of green spice—galbanum and clove meeting at the stem, almost peppery, before the white florals rush in.

Animale

Animale opens with a bright citrus flash—neroli and bergamot—that quickly gives way to a lush, unapologetic floral heart.

Ellen Tracy

This 1990s white floral opens with a candied fruit salad—plum and peach syrup spiked with cinnamon—before the galbanum cuts through with a green snap.

Nishane

Ambra Calabria opens with a blast of green galbanum tempered by bright bergamot, a bracing introduction that quickly gives way to something warmer.

Clive Christian

The opening salvo of 1872 for Men arrives bright and almost baroque—a profusion of citrus and fruit crowned with aromatic herbs, where lavender and rosemary anchor the brightness of lime and grapefruit, while pineapple and peach add an unexpected sweetness.

Penhaligon'S

Quercus opens with a tart brightness—citrus oils slicing through the air, bergamot and lemon sharpened by galbanum's green bitterness.

Mercedes-Benz

Mercedes-Benz Intense opens with a sharp, green collision of violet leaf and lemon—less citrus brightness than lemony bitterness, almost medicinal.

Hermès

The narcissus here appears cool and mineral rather than heady or white-floral sweet.

Oriflame

The opening is a generous orchard-and-florals blend — pear and apricot providing fruity sweetness, violet and iris introducing powder and floralcy, galbanum adding a sharp green note that prevents the fruit from dominating.

Davidoff

The opening bursts with sharp citrus—lemon and bergamot cutting through cleanly, almost athletic in their brightness.

Natura

Essencial Masculino opens with a brisk, herbal clarity—lavender and basil collide with citrus sharpness, the galbanum adding a green, almost medicinal edge.

Lancôme

Magie Noire opens with a sharp, green collision—galbanum cuts through the sweetness of raspberry and rose like a blade through velvet.

Alfred Sung

**Sung** opens with a bracing citrus-green salvo—galbanum and bergamot cutting through the sweetness of ylang-ylang—that immediately signals its 1980s lineage.

Trussardi

The opening arrives sharp and green—galbanum cuts through the air like fresh-split stems, softened just enough by bergamot's citrus and a whisper of nutmeg warmth.

Aramis

Devin opens with a sharp green burst—galbanum and citrus cutting through air like a blade through wet grass.

Zoologist Perfumes

The first breath is ice-sharp and unexpectedly tropical—spearmint frost over pale coconut, with lily of the valley lending a clean, nearly translucent brightness.

Emilio Pucci

Vivara opens with a bright, almost bracingly green shot of galbanum tempered by bergamot's citrus clarity.

Olfactive Studio

A sharp crack of pepper and galbanum announces itself immediately—green-bitter, almost medicinal.

Natura

A bright, fruit-forward opening of plum and black currant gives Kaiak an immediate sweetness tempered by bergamot's citrus lift.

Givenchy

Givenchy III is a 1970 green floral chypre — a genre at the height of Parisian sophistication then and a genuine rarity now.

Loewe

Paula's Ibiza opens with a collision of creamy coconut and sharp green galbanum—an immediate contrast that feels both sun-drenched and oddly bracing.

Roja Dove

Oceania opens with a bright, herbal salinity—lavender and rosemary mingling with citrus that feels scrubbed clean by sea air rather than sunny.

Pierre Balmain

The 1991 reformulation of Vent Vert arrives with a softer profile than Germaine Cellier's 1947 radical, though the galbanum still cuts through, sharp and almost metallic beneath a cushion of white florals.

Oscar De La Renta

Live-in-Love opens with a green flash—galbanum and lily of the valley cut through with bergamot's citrus brightness.

Alfred Sung

Sung Homme opens with a bracing herbal blast—petitgrain and sage tempered by a thread of citrus and galbanum's green bite.

Guerlain

Jasminora opens with a taut green snap—galbanum and bergamot slice through the air before the white florals arrive.

Roja Dove

The opening erupts with a sharp, verdant brightness—lime and galbanum cut through the citrus in a way that feels more green than sunny, almost grassy.

Comme Des Garçons

The opening shimmer here comes from pink pepper sparking against green galbanum—metallic in the way certain leaves smell when crushed between fingers, briefly sharp before softening.