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Gardenia

Ingredients · Florals · Made in a lab

Gardenia

Gardenia is almost never extracted commercially; its creamy, mushroomy bloom is reconstructed.

What it is
A flower that gives no oil worth extracting, so perfumers rebuild its smell from other materials.
How perfumers build it
Styrallyl acetateBenzyl acetateAldehyde C-18Methyl anthranilateTuberose absoluteJasmine absolute, not in Ingredients yet
Known in
Gardénia (Chanel, 1925)
Worth knowing
Styrallyl acetate is nicknamed 'gardenol' because it anchors so many gardenia accords.

Named by the house in 13 of the 352 perfumes read so far

Honour WomanAmouage · “Gardenia”Honour 43 WomanAmouage · “Gardenia”Lilac LoveAmouage · “Gardenia”DaisyMarc Jacobs · “gardenia”Flora Gorgeous GardeniaGucci · “White Gardenia”Ylang 49Le Labo · “pua noa noa (gardenia from Tahiti)”