Jarana Flower

Note Profile

Botanical

About

Jarana flower is the bloom of Lecythis lurida, an Amazonian tree in the Brazil-nut family. In perfumery it is a fantasy accord, not an extract. It reads as a light tropical white floral: jasmine-adjacent and honeyed, but thinner and greener than jasmine, with a watery freshness.

Scent Profile

White_floral leads because the one trade source that describes the smell calls it jasmine-adjacent twice, and Fragrantica independently calls it an intense floral touch. It is held rather than jasmine's own level because the same source says the reconstruction uses indole at low doses and describes the result as lighter and more transparent. Tropical is the source's own framing: an equatorial bloom, not a temperate garden flower. Floral is the general floral body both sources agree on. Honeyed is named directly, twice, as honeyed sweetness. Green is the green, vegetal undertone, again named directly. Aquatic_ozonic rests on Fragrantica alone, which calls it vibrant and watery and names river water. That is one sentence of marketing prose, so it carries the widest spread in the vector. Below sit sweet_vanillic, fruity, and animalic and clean_musk each for the low-dose indole. Every spread here is 0.16 or wider and the confidence is 0.28, because the whole vector rests on one trade glossary and a one-line group description that do not fully agree with each other.

ScentWheel

Breadthbroad

EnvelopeHeart · ~5h lasting

Family Floral, Fruity

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

Origin

Lecythis lurida (Lecythidaceae), also carried under the synonyms Lecythis jarana, Holopyxidium jarana and Eschweilera serrulata. The species grows in terra firme rain forest in the lower Amazon and in the Atlantic forests of northern South America, and it is known commercially as a timber, which is how ITTO's database records it. Premiere Peau states plainly that the flower is not widely extracted or traded, and that the accord is reconstructed from jasmine-type molecules such as benzyl acetate with indole at low doses, plus green-tropical elements and honeyed sweetness. So this note describes a formulator's approximation, not a measured smell of the botanical.

Usage in Perfumery

One Fragrantica attestation and no Parfumo placements. It is used as a heart note where a composition wants tropical atmosphere without the narcotic density of jasmine or tuberose. Fragrantica's own gloss calls it watery and places it by a Brazilian river, which is an atmosphere as much as a smell.