An accord is a geometry. White 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
- Fracas tuberose — Tuberose + orange blossom + sandal, high indole.
- Gardenia garden — Headspace gardenia, mushroom and cream.
- Neroli white — Orange blossom / neroli, cleaner than tuberose.
- Camphor tuberose — Lutens’s gasoline-menthol opening.
- Suntan white — Coconut lactone + tuberose + solar salicylate.
Materials
- Tuberose absolute — Polianthes tuberosa; enfleurage historically, solvent now.
- Gardenia — Almost no commercial oil; accords do the work.
- Neroli / orange blossom — Citrus aurantium flowers, distilled or absolute.
- Jasmine sambac — Arabian jasmine; night-bloom, less “French” than J. grandiflorum.
- Indole — The mothball-animal molecule in whites and jasmine.
- Methyl anthranilate — Orange-blossom grape note; easy to overdose.
Smell the materials before you trust a note list on a box of White floral.
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