Scent Word of the Week: Agrestic
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Agrestic: What Does it Mean?
Agrestic is an adjective which you might be more familiar with than you first think. It describes that country, rustic, “home-y” smell of rural landscapes. Think hay bales, a bit of dirt, and grandfather’s tobacco pipe. On its own, it might not be a fragrance that you instinctively want to recreate but combined with complimentary herbaceous notes such as lavender (Lavandula angustifolia) and clary sage (Salvia sclarea), or grounding earthy notes such as mitti attar or patchouli (Pogestemon cablin), and you might think again.
Above is an example of how to use the adjective agrestic in a sentence. Now that you know what it means you can add this scent word of the week to your fragrance vocabulary!
Use this word as a scent prompt and see what other examples you can come up with. Or use the following quote and incorporate the word agrestic into a possible sentence which might follow this quotation. I’ve highlighted the key words which directly relate to agrestic to give you a start.
“I like to hear and smell the countryside, the land that my characters inhabit. I don’t want these characters to step off the page, I want them to step out of the landscape.”
Peter, Mathiessen, American novelist and naturalist