Sweet Leaf is Room 1015's cannabis fragrance, a green aromatic built around 1960s counterculture, and it is far drier and more herbal than the name implies — the leaf is the plant, not sugar.
What it smells like
A note on sourcing first: Fragrantica publishes a flat note list for this fragrance rather than a top-heart-base pyramid, and credits no perfumer at all. Rather than invent a structure, here is simply what is in it — cannabis, eucalyptus, grapefruit, angelica and jasmine.
On skin the grapefruit and eucalyptus arrive first, bright and camphorous, and the cannabis accord joins almost immediately: green, resinous and dry, much closer to crushed leaf than to smoke. Anyone expecting a sweet, gourmand cannabis will find this considerably more austere.
Angelica adds an earthy, slightly bitter root quality underneath, and jasmine is used sparingly — just enough to round the green edges without turning the fragrance floral. It stays broadly linear: what you smell at twenty minutes is what you will smell at four hours, slightly quieter. Community accords rank aromatic at the top, then cannabis, woody, citrus and a camphorous facet.
Who it's for
For people who want a green fragrance with some grit to it. Most green scents are either sharp galbanum or clean tea, and this is neither; the eucalyptus gives it a medicinal edge that makes it memorable.
If you enjoy herbal, camphorous or vetiver-adjacent fragrances this will make sense immediately. It is also a sensible choice for anyone drawn to the cannabis-accord genre who has found the gourmand versions too sweet.
Performance: moderate projection, moderate longevity, and a largely linear wear. This is a comfortable fragrance rather than a dramatic one.
Spring and summer, daytime and everyday. It is inoffensive enough for most offices, though the cannabis accord is recognisable to anyone who knows it — worth a thought depending on where you work.
How it sits in the line
Room 1015 was founded in Paris in 2015 by Michael Partouche, a trained pharmacist and touring musician, and named after room 1015 of the Continental Hyatt House on Sunset Strip. Sweet Leaf's brief is 1960s cannabis counterculture, which the house sums up as the scent of a colourful trip with no destination.
It is worth repeating that neither the brand nor Fragrantica publishes a perfumer credit for this one, and Fragrantica gives a flat note list rather than a pyramid. We would rather say so than guess — the other fragrances in the line are by Jérôme di Marino, Jérôme Epinette and Serge de Oliveira, but there is no source attributing this one to any of them.
Within the range it is the most laid-back thing on offer. Where Cherry Punk and Hollyrose are built to be noticed, Sweet Leaf is built to be lived in, and it is one of the few in the line that works equally well on a weekday morning and a summer evening.
The full note breakdown is on the Room 1015 Sweet Leaf Eau de Parfum product page, the rest of the house is in the Room 1015 collection, and you can find comparable scents under Aromatic Woody. It is also on the scent bar at our Somerville boutique — worth trying on skin before you commit, because this is a house whose fragrances change a good deal between the first spray and the drydown.