Pikul Flower
Note Profile
About
Pikul is the Thai name for the flower of Mimusops elengi, a tree of South and Southeast Asia known in India as bakul or maulsari. The small cream star-shaped blossoms are strongly scented at night and are strung into garlands, dried for tea and used in natural perfume. The smell is heavy, honeyed and warm.
Scent Profile
Pikul Flower smells heavy, honeyed and warm, a night-blooming sweetness with a rich, honey-drenched quality. It reads like jasmine's quieter, more resinous cousin, denser and less sharp, with a soft floral sweetness underneath the honey. A faint ripe-fruit note runs through it, and a touch of warm spice shows on one side. A faintly wintergreen, cooling edge sits under the sweetness, the most unusual thing about the flower.
ScentWheel
Read off the wheel, not a label applied to the note.
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Origin
Natural, from the flowers of Mimusops elengi (Sapotaceae), a tree native to South Asia, Southeast Asia and northern Australia. The flowers are sun-dried for floral infusions and green tea in Thailand. Wikipedia records that they 'may also be used in natural perfume', but no commercial absolute or oil trade was found.
Usage in Perfumery
Rare. One Fragrantica placement and none in the second vocabulary. Used where a heavy indolic-adjacent temple floral is wanted without jasmine's green sharpness, typically in South and Southeast Asian themed compositions alongside champaca, ylang and sandalwood.
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