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Heliotrope
Heliotrope flowers yield no usable extract; one molecule, heliotropin, carries their almond-vanilla smell.
- What it is
- A flower that gives no oil worth extracting, so perfumers rebuild its smell from other materials.
- How perfumers build it
- Known in
- L'Heure Bleue (Guerlain, 1912)
Named by the house in 8 of the 352 perfumes read so far