Note Profile
Jonquil is a spring floral note derived from the jonquil narcissus family. In perfumery it is used for its sweet, green, and slightly honeyed floral character.
Jonquil smells like a fresh narcissus-type floral with green stems, soft sweetness, and a heavy honeyed, creamy body, with a sticky medicinal hue in the top. Depending on the material, it can lean more luminous and airy or more narcotic and indolic-animalic, with a floral core that often suggests orange blossom and narcissus accords. The drydown turns drier and hay-like, with beeswax and tobacco facets.
Read off the wheel, not a label applied to the note.
Narcissus jonquilla absolute exists but is vanishingly rare; we hold none. The material that would realise this note is Jonquil absolute; we do not hold it, so this edge names the gap rather than asserting a reconstruction.
Jonquil is sourced from the flowers of Narcissus jonquilla and related jonquil cultivars, which are part of the narcissus family. In perfumery it may appear as a natural absolute or as an accord built to reproduce the flower's characteristic floral-green profile.
Perfumers use jonquil in the heart of floral compositions, where it can bridge green top notes into richer white florals and musky bases. It blends well with narcissus, mimosa, orange blossom, iris, vetiver, tonka, and soft musks, and it can add spring lift to chypre and floral compositions.
A selection of reviewed perfumes where Jonquil appears prominently.
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