What it smells like
Jasmine, tuberose, gardenia, orange blossom, ylang ylang. These carry indole, which is faecal at strength and floral in trace. That is why they smell alive and slightly narcotic where other flowers smell pretty.
Where it stops
Indolic weight separates White Floral from Floral. A flower underneath it, rather than a body, separates it from Animalic.
Smells most like
jasmine - and in the same register, white flowers, jasmine petals.
Notes that load on it
Notes from our catalogue whose position on this facet is 0.40 or higher, strongest first. A note is not filed under one facet: it carries a value on all 34 at once, and these are the ones where this axis is doing real work.
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Egyptian Jasmine Absolute
Heart · ~8h
Botanical
105
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Jasmine
Animalic
Heart · ~8h
Botanical
14,766
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Lily of the Valley
Green
Waxy-Fatty
Floral
Heart · ~6h
Botanical
3,765
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Ylang-Ylang
Fruity
Phenolic
Heart · ~8h
Botanical
3,372
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Datura
Honey
Heart · ~5h
Botanical
83
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White Ginger Lily
Floral
Vanilla
Green
Heart · ~8h
Botanical
14
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Karo-Karounde
Heart · ~8h
Botanical
12
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Jasmine Petals
Heart · ~8h
Prepared
6
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Mugane
Floral
Green
Heart · ~6h
Molecule
4
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Creamy Flowers
Lactonic
Heart · ~8h
Abstract
2
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Lysylang
Tropical
Lactonic
Heart · ~7h
Prepared
2
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Lilybelle®
Green
Floral
Heart · ~5h
Molecule
1
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Jasmine Lactone
Lactonic
Waxy-Fatty
Base · ~30h
Molecule
-
White Flowers
Heart · ~7h
Botanical
253
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Neroli
Citrus
Green
Mineral
Heart · ~6h
Botanical
2,771
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Tuberose
Lactonic
Heart · ~8h
Botanical
2,507
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Night-Blooming Jasmine
Heart · ~8h
Botanical
84
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Jasmine Tea
Green
Floral
Heart · ~6h
Prepared
59
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Privet
Honey
Green
Animalic
Heart · ~8h
Botanical
4
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Carissa
Floral
Heart · ~6h
Botanical
Materials that carry it
Real substances, each keyed by its CAS registry number, that an external perfumery vocabulary publishes with a term meaning this facet outright. This is the layer that makes a facet checkable against something outside our own database.
| Material | CAS | Terms | Status |
|---|---|---|---|
| 3-acetyl-5-butyloxolan-2-one | CAS 40010-99-9 | gardenia, jasmin, tuberose | |
| 8-tricyclo[5.2.1.02,6]dec-3-enyl 2-methylpropanoate | CAS 68039-39-4 | gardenia, jasmin, tuberose | |
| verdantiol | CAS 91-51-0 | muguet, orangeflower | |
| hexyl angelate | CAS 65652-33-7 | gardenia, jasmin | |
| benzyl hexanoate | CAS 6938-45-0 | gardenia, jasmin | |
| linalyl benzoate | CAS 126-64-7 | tuberose, ylang | |
| methyl o-toluate | CAS 89-71-4 | orangeflower, ylang | |
| p-tolyl octanoate | CAS 59558-23-5 | jasmin, ylang | |
| methyl anthranilate | CAS 134-20-3 | neroli, orangeflower | |
| benzyl isoamyl ether | CAS 122-73-6 | gardenia, jasmin | |
| linalyl anthranilate | CAS 7149-26-0 | gardenia, orangeflower | |
| phenylglycol diacetate | CAS 6270-03-7 | gardenia, muguet | |
| cyclohexyl anthranilate | CAS 7779-16-0 | neroli, orangeflower | |
| alpha-terpinyl anthranilate | CAS 14481-52-8 | neroli, orangeflower | |
| 1'-acetonaphthone | CAS 941-98-0 | neroli, orangeflower | |
| 2-acetylbenzofuran | CAS 1646-26-0 | neroli, orangeflower | |
| 2-acetylnaphthalene | CAS 93-08-3 | neroli, orangeflower | IFRA |
| 6-pent-3-enyloxan-2-one | CAS 32764-98-0 | jasmin, tuberose | |
| ethyl 2-methoxybenzoate | CAS 7335-26-4 | tuberose, ylang | |
| 2-(3-methylphenyl)ethanol | CAS 1875-89-4 | jasmin, muguet | |
| (r)-1-phenylethyl acetate | CAS 16197-92-5 | gardenia, jasmin | |
| 4-(2-acetoxyethoxy)toluene | CAS 6807-11-0 | gardenia, jasmin | |
| cis-3-hexenyl anthranilate | CAS 65405-76-7 | jasmin, orangeflower | |
| 3-pentyl-2-cyclohexen-1-one | CAS 25435-63-6 | jasmin, muguet | |
| 2-pentyl-2-cyclopenten-1-one | CAS 25564-22-1 | jasmin, tuberose | IFRA |
| 6-[(e)-pent-2-enyl]oxan-2-one | CAS 25524-95-2 | jasmin, tuberose | |
| methyl 2-cyclopentylideneacetate | CAS 40203-73-4 | tuberose, ylang | |
| 6-[(E)-dec-6-enoyl]oxydecanoic acid | CAS 85392-06-9 | gardenia, jasmin | |
| 3-methylbut-2-enyl (E)-2-methylbut-2-enoate | CAS 83783-86-2 | jasmin, ylang | |
| methyl (1r,2s)-3-oxo-2-pentylcyclopentanecarboxylate | CAS 1271488-66-4 | jasmin, muguet |
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Reading the two flags
Declarable means the substance appears in Annex III of the EU Cosmetics Regulation, so it has to be named on the ingredient list once it passes a concentration threshold. IFRA means an IFRA Standard restricts or prohibits its use. Both are facts about the substance, not about any fragrance: a perfume can contain a declarable material below the threshold and never print it, and a restricted material used within its limit is used correctly.
The source also supplies no common name for a large share of materials, so those display as a bare registry number and are ranked last. They are kept because they are real evidence: dropping them would make the vocabulary look better described than it is.
Anchor terms
A facet on its own is just a word we chose. An anchor is what makes it checkable: a term in an external, independently maintained vocabulary of odour descriptions, built for perfumery materials rather than for us. The material list above is drawn from the direct terms only, because a partial term corroborates too weakly to stand as evidence on its own.
Direct
Terms that mean this facet outright
- gardenia
- jasmin
- jasmine
- muguet
- neroli
- orange blossom
- orange-blossom
- orangeflower
- tuberose
- ylang
Partial
Terms that lean this way but also load elsewhere
- narcissus
The rest of Floral
The other facets in this family. A note can load on any of them at the same time as this one, so they are neighbours rather than alternatives.