Delonix

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Delonix is a fantasy accord, not an extract. The flame tree Delonix regia puts on one of the loudest flower displays in the tropics and has almost no smell. What perfumery sells under the name is a composed impression of that display: a bright warm floral, green leaf under it, and a thin thread of honey.

Scent Profile

Delonix is a composed accord standing in for the flame tree's loud but nearly scentless flower display. It reads as a bright, warm floral, rosy rather than heady, with green leaf underneath the way the flowers are always shown against their own foliage. A thin, faint thread of honey runs behind it. It stays light and airy rather than narcotic or rich.

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Breadthmedium

EnvelopeHeart · ~4h lasting

Family Floral, Green & Aromatic

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Origin

Delonix regia, the royal poinciana or flame tree, native to Madagascar and planted across the tropics for its mass of scarlet flowers. Premiere Peau states plainly that no commercial essential oil or absolute exists for the flower and calls the tree a scentless spectacle. Perfumers build the note from rosy-fresh floral materials, geraniol and linalool being the ones named, plus green-leaf notes and a honey sweetener. MetaScent's fragrance of the same name places Delonix in the heart and describes it as narcotic.

Usage in Perfumery

Used to signal a place and a picture rather than a smell: tropical flowering landscapes, heat, red against green. It sits in the heart of a composition and needs surrounding work to read at all. MetaScent's own use puts it beside ylang ylang and hyacinth over tolu balsam, oakmoss and cedarwood. Because the accord is not standardised, two houses using the name may not be selling the same thing.