Note · Flowers
Lilac
Syringa vulgaris
Lilac blooms in spring in highly fragrant mauve or white clusters. Its flower yields no usable oil: perfumers recreate its scent, at once floral, green and slightly powdery.
What it brings
A springlike floral note, fresh and powdery.
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Material profile
- Family
- Flowers
- Nature
- Perfumer’s accord
- Botanical name
- Syringa vulgaris
- Origin
- A shrub native to the Balkans, grown in gardens across temperate regions; a recreated note in perfumery.
- How it is obtained
- Recomposed by the perfumer
- On Volute
- 1 fragrance
The fragrances that reveal it
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