Portlandia
Note Profile
About
Portlandia is the flower of Portlandia grandiflora, a Caribbean shrub in the coffee family. It is grown as an ornamental for its large white trumpet blooms, which smell of chocolate and vanilla and give off most of their scent at night. No perfumery extract of it was found. The smell is described from the living plant.
Scent Profile
Portlandia smells of rich hot chocolate with vanilla, a scent between the two rather than one leading the other. The flowers themselves are compared to gardenia, giving a white floral note alongside the general floral character. A creamy, lactonic texture runs through the chocolate impression, like a drink rather than a milk note on its own.
ScentWheel
Read off the wheel, not a label applied to the note.
ScentArt
Origin
Portlandia grandiflora (Rubiaceae), native to Jamaica and Cuba and grown as an ornamental across the tropics. The scent comes off the open flower. There is no attested absolute, concrete or CO2 extract, so any use in perfumery is a reconstruction.
Usage in Perfumery
Rare. One perfume on Fragrantica names it. Where it appears it is a cocoa-vanilla floral rather than a white-floral heart, and it does the work of a gourmand accord that happens to smell like a flower.
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Perfumes featuring Portlandia
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