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Ingredients · Florals · top note

Magnolia leaf oil

Fresh, green-floral linalool with tea-like, slightly citrus crispness.

What it is
Natural oil from steam-distilled leaves of white champaca.
Where it comes from
China
When you smell it
Top notes: the first minutes.
What perfumers do with it
Green 'aura' for transparent florals and freesia; the petitgrain to magnolia flower's neroli.
Also called
Michelia alba leaf oil

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