The Character Archive
Hay
The Summer Keeping
Cut grass dried in a loft, sweetened by time and dust.
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Hay is the smell of stored summer — coumarin-warm, faintly tobacco-ish, with the dry hush of stalks that have spent a season in the dark. She is nostalgia in note form: barn rafters, sun on cloth, the powder of long afternoons.
She drifts through the base of a fragrance as a soft, almond-tinged warmth that smudges every harder edge into something pastoral.
- Role
- Sweet base note
- Smells like
- Dried grass, coumarin, tobacco, warm dust
- Used in
- Hidden
- Pairs well with
- Tonka, vanilla, lavender, oakmoss, vetiver
