The Character Archive
Palmarosa
The Rose Grass
A green stem that opens, against all reason, into rose.
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Palmarosa is a wild Indian grass that, when distilled, produces an oil so rich in geraniol it smells uncannily of rose — green, lemony, soft-skinned, and a touch wild. She is rose without the velvet, rose loosened back into a field.
She works the heart, lending a clean floral sweetness that makes fuller roses feel airier and lighter.
- Role
- Floral heart note
- Smells like
- Green rose, lemon stem, soft geranium, warm grass
- Used in
- Pairs well with
- Rose, sandalwood, vetiver, ho wood, tonka
