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Quick answers
What is Floral?
A mixed-flower family: bouquet or soliflore, from garden rose to a whole florist stall.
EDP vs EDT — what changes?
Concentration is oil in alcohol, not a quality score. EDT (about 5–15%) shows more top; EDP (about 15–20%) shows more heart and base. Houses vary; this is not a lab assay.
How should I wear Floral?
One or two sprays on skin or cloth — sternum or hair, not a cloud in a lift. Let it turn an hour before you add more.
Which season fits?
Spring to autumn, daylight. Extraits can smother in midsummer heat.
Does skin chemistry change it?
Yes. Warm, moist skin amplifies sweet and spice; dry or cool skin can turn the same juice woody, soapy or short. Test on your skin, not only a blotter.
What about IFRA and oakmoss?
IFRA sets industry limits on some naturals and synthetics. A reformulation is usually a legal edit, not a betrayal. This atlas is not a safety sheet.
An accord is a geometry. Floral is rose, jasmine, sandalwood, oud, vetiver, musk or amber stacked on purpose.
Naturals and molecules share the same pyramid; IFRA draws some of the lines.
Accords
- Classic bouquet — Rose + jasmine + ylang over woods — Joy’s geometry.
- Muguet spring — Lily-of-the-valley with green stems, after Diorissimo.
- Carnation spice — Clove-tinged carnation as in L’Air du Temps.
- Peony musk — Wet peony and clean musk, 1990s–2010s default.
- Aldehydic floral — Soap-sparkle over petals, borrowed from No. 5.
Materials
- Rose de Mai — Rosa × centifolia absolute from Grasse May harvest.
- Jasmine grandiflorum — Night-picked flowers, hexane or enfleurage historically.
- Ylang-ylang — Cananga odorata extra from the Comoros and Madagascar.
- Hedione — Firmenich’s methyl dihydrojasmonate, the airy jasmine molecule (1962).
- Hydroxycitronellal — Classic muguet building block, now IFRA-limited.
- Peony accord — A reconstructed note; peony yields little usable oil.
Smell the materials before you trust a note list on a box of Floral.
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