Carambola Blossom

Note Profile

Botanical

About

Carambola blossom is the small pink flower of the star fruit tree. One botanical garden records that it is fragrant. No source records what it smells of, so this vector is a soft floral held loose on purpose.

Scent Profile

Floral leads because the single reachable source says only that the flowers are fragrant, and a flower described as fragrant and nothing else is a floral note. It is not pushed higher: 'fragrant' on a quarter-inch axillary flower is a weak claim, not a heady one. Green is the only other facet at scoring weight, and it is the flower's own stem and calyx rather than anything a source names. Everything below that is prior, not evidence: a modest fruity, honeyed and sweet_vanillic shading that most small tropical tree blossoms carry, each held at or under 0.24 with a 0.22 to 0.25 spread so the vector reads as an interval and not a claim. Nothing here says tropical fruit. The star fruit reading belongs to the published Starfruit note and is not imported.

ScentWheel

Breadthbroad

EnvelopeHeart · ~3h lasting

Family Floral

Read off the wheel, not a label applied to the note.

Origin

Averrhoa carambola, the star fruit tree of tropical Asia, in the family Oxalidaceae. Missouri Botanical Garden describes the flowers as 'fragrant rose flowers (1/4 inch across) bloom in the leaf axils throughout the year, typically in up to four separate flushes'. The blossom is a different organ from the fruit, which is the published Starfruit note. No supplier sells a carambola blossom absolute and no trade source treats it as a material, so this is a flower reference, not an extract.

Usage in Perfumery

Measured 2026-08-30: 4 Fragrantica placements, filed under Flowers, and none on Parfumo. Use it as a light tropical flower where star fruit is wanted as a blossom rather than as juice.