Is sage a top, heart or base note?

It sits in the heart, which is the part of a fragrance you notice once the opening has settled. Makes a blend read as grown-up. Sage cuts sweetness hard, which is useful over gourmand bases and ruinous if you wanted them sweet.

Which Next Fragrance scents contain sage?

2, including Next Emerald - Eau De Parfum and Next Emerald - Perfume Oil. Every note listed on a product page is the real pyramid for that fragrance.

Can I use sage in a custom blend?

Yes. It is one of the 42 notes you can choose at the Bench, where you build across the three tiers and we blend it by hand in Adelaide.

Archive Sage

Heart note · Aromatic

Sage.

Q: What does sage smell like?

Dry grey-green herb, slightly bitter and mineral. Sage is herbal, dry and a little bitter, with a mineral coolness and a faint dustiness. It is a garden smell rather than a bouquet, and it has almost no sweetness in it at all, which makes it one of the most useful correcting notes on the bench.

Q: What does sage pair well with?

The studio would start with lavender, vetiver, grapefruit and cedarwood. Put it in when a blend is heading too sweet or too pretty. It sharpens citrus, it grounds lavender, and over woods it makes something dry and confident. The flip side is that it will flatten a soft floral heart: sage and peony together is sage with a suggestion of flowers.

Q: What fragrance family is sage in?

Aromatic. Herbal and green, closer to a garden than a bouquet.

Dry grey-green herb, slightly bitter and mineral.

How loudly it speaksBalanced

Our read on the material, not a measurement.

Build with sage at the bench

What it smells like.

Sage is herbal, dry and a little bitter, with a mineral coolness and a faint dustiness. It is a garden smell rather than a bouquet, and it has almost no sweetness in it at all, which makes it one of the most useful correcting notes on the bench.

Put it in when a blend is heading too sweet or too pretty. It sharpens citrus, it grounds lavender, and over woods it makes something dry and confident. The flip side is that it will flatten a soft floral heart: sage and peony together is sage with a suggestion of flowers.