The Character Archive
Rosemary
The Cold Altar
An herb of remembrance, sharp with stone and smoke.
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Rosemary is the herb of memory — pungent, camphorous, almost mineral, with a green smokiness that rises like incense from a sunlit hillside. She is funeral and feast at once.
A bracing top-to-heart aromatic, she gives fougères their spine and any composition a clean, ritual edge.
- Role
- Aromatic top note
- Smells like
- Green camphor, dry pine, warm stone, herbal smoke
- Used in
- Hidden, The Still
- Pairs well with
- Lavender, juniper, mastic, oakmoss, frankincense
