Hyacinth

What it brings

A green, springlike floral freshness.

Origins and uses

The common hyacinth, Hyacinthus orientalis, is a bulbous plant of the asparagus family, native to western Asia, from Turkey to the regions of Aleppo and Baghdad. In the wild, it bears a few pale blue flowers, sometimes pink, violet or white. More than four centuries of selection have produced plants with dense spikes of up to a hundred flowers, and thousands of varieties, from blue to white, yellow and red. It is grown for the beauty and fragrance of its flowers, in the garden or forced in a glass, where it blooms in winter.

In perfumery, hyacinth absolute is very rare, and the note is most often recreated. It brings a green, fresh, slightly peppery floral quality, with a facet of damp earth, that evokes the first days of spring.

In our catalogue, hyacinth opens Accento Viola by Sospiro, with pineapple, before a heart of jasmine, orris and pink pepper.