Floral

White Floral

The heavy, indolic, almost animal flowers

white_floral 113 notes 211 materials 8 anchors

What it smells like

Jasmine, tuberose, gardenia, orange blossom, ylang ylang. These carry indole, which is faecal at strength and floral in trace. That is why they smell alive and slightly narcotic where other flowers smell pretty.

Where it stops

Indolic weight separates White Floral from Floral. A flower underneath it, rather than a body, separates it from Animalic.

Smells most like

jasmine - and in the same register, white flowers, jasmine petals.

Notes that load on it

Notes from our catalogue whose position on this facet is 0.40 or higher, strongest first. A note is not filed under one facet: it carries a value on all 34 at once, and these are the ones where this axis is doing real work.

Materials that carry it

Real substances, each keyed by its CAS registry number, that an external perfumery vocabulary publishes with a term meaning this facet outright. This is the layer that makes a facet checkable against something outside our own database.

Materials carrying this facet, with registry number, source terms and regulatory status
Material CAS Terms Status
3-acetyl-5-butyloxolan-2-one CAS 40010-99-9 gardenia, jasmin, tuberose
8-tricyclo[5.2.1.02,6]dec-3-enyl 2-methylpropanoate CAS 68039-39-4 gardenia, jasmin, tuberose
hexyl angelate CAS 65652-33-7 gardenia, jasmin
benzyl hexanoate CAS 6938-45-0 gardenia, jasmin
linalyl benzoate CAS 126-64-7 tuberose, ylang
p-tolyl octanoate CAS 59558-23-5 jasmin, ylang
benzyl isoamyl ether CAS 122-73-6 gardenia, jasmin
phenylglycol diacetate CAS 6270-03-7 gardenia, muguet
6-pent-3-enyloxan-2-one CAS 32764-98-0 jasmin, tuberose
ethyl 2-methoxybenzoate CAS 7335-26-4 tuberose, ylang
2-(3-methylphenyl)ethanol CAS 1875-89-4 jasmin, muguet
(r)-1-phenylethyl acetate CAS 16197-92-5 gardenia, jasmin
4-(2-acetoxyethoxy)toluene CAS 6807-11-0 gardenia, jasmin
3-pentyl-2-cyclohexen-1-one CAS 25435-63-6 jasmin, muguet
2-pentyl-2-cyclopenten-1-one CAS 25564-22-1 jasmin, tuberose IFRA
6-[(e)-pent-2-enyl]oxan-2-one CAS 25524-95-2 jasmin, tuberose
methyl 2-cyclopentylideneacetate CAS 40203-73-4 tuberose, ylang
6-[(E)-dec-6-enoyl]oxydecanoic acid CAS 85392-06-9 gardenia, jasmin
3-methylbut-2-enyl (E)-2-methylbut-2-enoate CAS 83783-86-2 jasmin, ylang
methyl (1r,2s)-3-oxo-2-pentylcyclopentanecarboxylate CAS 1271488-66-4 jasmin, muguet
lyral CAS 31906-04-4 muguet IFRA
nerol CAS 106-25-2 neroli
phytol CAS 7541-49-3 jasmin
decatone CAS 34131-98-1 gardenia
farnesol CAS 106-28-5 muguet
nootkatone CAS 4674-50-4 gardenia IFRA
verdantiol CAS 91-51-0 muguet
cis-jasmone CAS 488-10-8 jasmin
dmbc formate CAS 10058-43-2 jasmin
benzyl acetate CAS 140-11-4 jasmin

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Reading the two flags

Declarable means the substance appears in Annex III of the EU Cosmetics Regulation, so it has to be named on the ingredient list once it passes a concentration threshold. IFRA means an IFRA Standard restricts or prohibits its use. Both are facts about the substance, not about any fragrance: a perfume can contain a declarable material below the threshold and never print it, and a restricted material used within its limit is used correctly.

The source also supplies no common name for a large share of materials, so those display as a bare registry number and are ranked last. They are kept because they are real evidence: dropping them would make the vocabulary look better described than it is.

Anchor terms

A facet on its own is just a word we chose. An anchor is what makes it checkable: a term in an external, independently maintained vocabulary of odour descriptions, built for perfumery materials rather than for us. The material list above is drawn from the direct terms only, because a partial term corroborates too weakly to stand as evidence on its own.

Direct Terms that mean this facet outright
  • gardenia
  • jasmin
  • jasmine
  • muguet
  • neroli
  • orange blossom
  • tuberose
  • ylang
Partial Terms that lean this way but also load elsewhere
  • narcissus

The rest of Floral

The other facets in this family. A note can load on any of them at the same time as this one, so they are neighbours rather than alternatives.

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