Ingredients · Florals · Made in a lab

Sweet pea

Sweet pea blossoms can't be extracted commercially; the soft, powdery-fruity note is invented.

What it is

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

How perfumers build it

HydroxycitronellalPhenylacetaldehyde, not in Ingredients yetBenzyl acetateBeta-ionone (powder puff)Linalool

Named by the house in 3 of the 452 perfumes read so far

Miss Dior Blooming BouquetDior · “sweet pea”724Maison Francis Kurkdjian · “sweet pea”English Pear & Sweet Pea CologneJo Malone London · “Sweet Pea”