Mulberry Blossom

Note Profile

Botanical

About

Mulberry blossom is the flower of the mulberry tree, Morus. The flowers are small greenish catkins that are wind-pollinated, not showy insect-pollinated blossoms. Every source that describes a mulberry tree in bloom calls the smell earthy and spicy rather than sweet or floral, and one says the blooms carry no scent at all.

Scent Profile

Earthy leads because it is the one word all three flowering-tree sources reach for, and none of them qualifies it. It is capped at 0.55 rather than higher because every source also calls the smell subtle, faint or not overpowering. Green is the catkin and the foliage, supported directly by Premiere Peau's "green-sappy" for the plant and by the crushed-leaf reading in Why Farm It. Fresh_spice and warm_spice are set equal on purpose. Two sources say "spicy" and neither says which kind, and at this concentration there is nothing in the prose to sort it. Splitting evenly with a 0.25 spread on each records that the question is open instead of guessing an answer. Floral is the contested facet. Two sources put the smell on the flowers, one states the blooms are non-fragrant and moves the smell to crushed foliage. The value is low enough to respect the disagreement and non-zero because two of three sources do attribute a scent to the flower. Its 0.28 spread is the widest in the vector. Sweet_vanillic is the "sometimes slightly sweet" of one source only. Dry_woody is Premiere Peau's "gentle woody sweetness", which describes the whole plant and not the flower, so it stays a trace.

ScentWheel

Breadthbroad

EnvelopeHeart · ~4h lasting

Family Woody & Earthy, Green & Aromatic

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

Origin

Morus, in flower. The flowers are small greenish-white catkins. Three horticultural publishers describe the smell around a flowering tree and they do not fully agree. TN Nursery says "the flowers and leaves have a subtle, spicy, earthy scent you will enjoy without ornamental flowers". Tree Care Service Omaha says "While not overpowering, the flowers can give off a subtle, earthy, and sometimes slightly sweet aroma" and "It's a sort of earthy, spicy smell that starts to drift from the tree, not overpowering, but definitely there if you get close enough on a calm day." Why Farm It disagrees on which tissue smells: "The blooms are non-fragrant, though the foliage has a spicy, earthy scent when crushed." Premiere Peau covers the whole plant rather than the flower and calls it "Green-sappy with a gentle woody sweetness", adding that "the olfactory contribution comes not from its sweet-tart berries but from its wood, bark, and leaves".

Usage in Perfumery

Parfumo attests the note in 2 perfumes from 2 brands. Fragrantica does not list it. There is no essential oil, absolute or supplier material for mulberry flower, so any use in perfumery is a reconstruction.