Ingredients · Florals · Made in a lab
Lilac
Lilac blossoms give no commercial extract, so perfumers recreate the spring-bush smell from scratch.
- What it is
- A flower that gives no oil worth extracting, so perfumers rebuild its smell from other materials.
- How perfumers build it
- Terpineol
Heliotropin (heliotrope)HydroxycitronellalPhenylacetaldehyde, not in Ingredients yetAnisaldehydeIndole - Known in
- En Passant (Frédéric Malle, 2000)
- Worth knowing
- Terpineol, the same molecule behind pine-oil cleaners, is the usual backbone of a lilac accord.
Named by the house in 3 of the 352 perfumes read so far