Kadam

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Kadam is the flower of Neolamarckia cadamba, the Indian burflower tree, worked almost entirely as an attar rather than as an isolated oil. It smells sweet, honeyed and powdery over a white floral body, with a green edge and a woody dry-down. One description records a short-lived minty-borneolic top that no other description reports.

Scent Profile

Kadam smells sweet and honeyed, a powdery white floral with a pollen-dusted softness. A rounded, sugary sweetness sits under the flower, close to champaca and frangipani in its tropical warmth. A green edge cuts through the sweetness, and a faint, soft wood shows in the drydown.

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Breadthbroad

EnvelopeBase · ~12h lasting

Family Floral, Sweet & Gourmand

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Origin

Neolamarckia cadamba (formerly Anthocephalus cadamba), the kadam or burflower tree of India and South-East Asia. The scent comes from the orange-yellow spherical flower heads. Kadam absolute is not a standard commercial product, so the material reaching perfumery is almost always a Kannauj attar, co-distilled from the flowers into sandalwood, or a reconstructed accord.

Usage in Perfumery

Used as a heart-to-base floral in Indian attar work and in compositions reaching for a monsoon or temple-garland image. It sits close to champaca and frangipani and is chosen when a sweeter, more powdery tropical floral is wanted.