Ingredients · Florals · heart note

Blue lotus absolute

Sheer, waxy, fruity-sweet water-lily floral.

What it is

Natural absolute from solvent-extracted flowers of the Egyptian blue water lily.

When you smell it

Heart: the first hours.

What perfumers do with it

Adds soft, fruity water-lily florality to niche and aquatic-floral compositions.

Worth knowing

Despite its name it is a water lily, not a lotus; it was the sacred flower of ancient Egypt.

Also called

Blue water lily, Nymphaea caerulea absolute