Sea Daffodil

Note Profile

Botanical

About

Waxy narcotic white floral cut with warm sand and iodine. A reconstruction, because no natural extract is traded.

Scent Profile

White_floral leads and it is the heavy, waxy, narcotic kind: closer to tuberose than to narcissus, but drier and less buttery than tuberose. Mineral is the facet that makes this note itself and not another white flower. It reads as warm sand and a trace of iodine rather than wet stone. Floral gives the general blossom body under the white-floral spike. Aquatic_ozonic comes from the marine molecules the reconstruction is built on, and from the dune setting the sources keep returning to. Green is the thin vegetal note of dune grass, present but not leading. Clean_musk is the fixative base the accord sits on. Below, creamy_woody and lactonic carry the waxy petal body, honeyed and sweet_vanillic the dense night sweetness, animalic the indolic undertow, and powdery a faint dusting.

ScentWheel

Breadthbroad

EnvelopeHeart · ~6h lasting

Family Floral, Elemental

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

Origin

Sea daffodil is Pancratium maritimum, a bulb of Mediterranean sand dunes that flowers at dusk and releases its scent on still nights. It is not a true daffodil and not a Narcissus. No essential oil, absolute or CO2 extract of the species is sold: the plant is protected across much of its range, listed Endangered in Bulgaria and Crete and Vulnerable in Lebanon. Every perfumery use of the name is therefore a reconstruction, typically built from white-floral synthetics such as hedione and methyl benzoate, marine molecules such as calone and dihydromyrcenol, and fixative musks.

Usage in Perfumery

Works in the heart, bridging marine top notes to musky or woody bases. There is no standardised formula, so the name signals an intent more than a fixed accord. Two houses using it may not smell alike.