Ingredients · Florals · Made in a lab

Bleeding heart

No bleeding-heart material is distilled or extracted for perfume; the note is a perfumer's picture of the pink, heart-shaped garden flower.

What it is

A flower that gives no oil worth extracting, so perfumers rebuild its smell from other materials.

Known in

Little Flower (Régime des Fleurs, 2019)

Worth knowing

The plant is still widely sold under its old name, Dicentra spectabilis.