Ingredients · Florals · Made in a lab
Magnolia
Garden magnolia gives no commercial extract; perfumers use lemony-floral synthetics plus related champaca oils.
- What it is
- A flower that gives no oil worth extracting, so perfumers rebuild its smell from other materials.
- How perfumers build it
- Worth knowing
- Many 'magnolia' notes lean on Michelia alba, a magnolia relative whose leaves and flowers are distilled.
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