Magnolia Brooklynensis
Note Profile
About
A creamy magnolia with weeds in it. Green and a little dank, not the clean transparent magnolia of mainstream perfumery. Named after a real garden hybrid and reconstructed from aroma chemicals, because no oil of it is sold.
Scent Profile
Magnolia brooklynensis smells like a creamy white flower with weeds growing through it, not the clean, transparent magnolia most perfumes use. The creaminess and the flower are one claim, milky rather than sharp. Green, slightly dank foliage runs through the petals rather than sitting apart from them. It carries a rot-and-earth undertone real magnolia blooms have, which most magnolia notes leave out.
ScentWheel
Read off the wheel, not a label applied to the note.
ScentArt
Origin
Magnolia x brooklynensis is a hybrid of Magnolia acuminata and Magnolia liliiflora, first raised at the Brooklyn Botanic Garden. It is not distilled commercially. The note exists because one perfume, D.S. & Durga's Magnolia City, names it and builds it as a reconstruction, using it in the heart alongside a separate saucer magnolia in the base. Fragrantica files it as a fantasy floral.
Usage in Perfumery
Rare. Attested on 2 Fragrantica entries and 0 Parfumo entries. It is used as the naturalistic half of a green floral, where the point is that the flower smells like a flower outdoors rather than like a perfume.
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