Ingredients · Florals · dry-down
Frangipani absolute
Say itfran-jih-PAH-nee absolute
Creamy, peachy tropical white flower with almond and vanilla-balsamic warmth.
- What it is
- Natural absolute from solvent-extracted plumeria flowers.
- Where it comes from
- India
- When you smell it
- Dry-down: hours later.
- What perfumers do with it
- Adds creamy, sunny, exotic white-floral richness to tropical, tiaré and gardenia-style accords.
- Worth knowing
- Named after the Frangipani family's Renaissance glove perfume, which the flower's scent reminded colonists of.
- Also called
- Plumeria absolute (Plumeria alba / rubra)
Named by the house, not on the label, in 2
