Is Creamy Flowers natural or synthetic?

A fantasy or concept note, not a single material.

Creamy Flowers

AccordFLOWERScreamy · floral · rich

HeartPyramid

—Strength

—Tenacity

—Origins

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Specimen

Creamy Flowers perfume ingredient — Heart

Fantasy/Concept

Definition

Tuberose, gardenia and frangipani all have strongly fragrant flowers. The scent of frangipani is perceived to include lactonic accords.

FLORAL SWEET WARM CREAMY

Type: Accord
Olfactive family: Florals
Subfamily: Classic florals
Cluster: Classic florals

Instruments

Pyramid

TTop

HHeart

BBase

Scent

The scent of frangipani is perceived to have floral elements of jasmine, citrus and gardenia, and fruity aromatic notes of coconut, peach and vanilla. The scent of tuberose is very sweet.

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The Full Story

The flowers

Tuberose is native to Mexico. Its flowers are pure white and waxy, and they are strongly fragrant. Gardenia jasminoides is native to the subtropical and northern tropical parts of the Far East. Its flowers are white with a matte texture and gradually take on a creamy yellow color.

Plumeria, the frangipani, is native to the Neotropical realm in Mexico, Central America, the Caribbean and northwestern South America. Its flowers come in many colours, including pink, red, white, yellow, orange or pastel. The champaca tree is native to the Indomalayan realm, consisting of South Asia, Southeast Asia-Indochina and southern China. It has strongly fragrant flowers in varying shades of cream to yellow-orange.

Chemistry

Lactones contribute significantly to the flavor of fruit and of unfermented and fermented dairy products. δ-Decalactone has a creamy coconut/peach flavour, and γ-decalactone has a characteristic peach flavor.

At very low concentrations indole has a flowery smell, and it is a constituent of many perfumes. In low concentrations skatole also has a flowery smell and is found in several flowers and essential oils, including those of orange blossoms and jasmine.

Methyl benzoate has a fruity aroma and occurs in ylang-ylang, tuberose and Michelia. The main chemical components detected in fresh tuberose flowers were methyl benzoate, eucalyptol, methyl salicylate and methyl anthranilate, in all stages of the flowers.

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Did You Know?

Tuberose flowers release more volatile compounds at 9 pm and 3 am than at 3 pm, and ester compounds are produced highly in full bloom flowers and during night time. Frangipani yields no nectar, yet its scent tricks sphinx moths into pollinating it.

Extraction & Chemistry

Extraction method

Enfleurage was the sole method of extracting the fragrant compounds of delicate flowers such as jasmine and tuberose, which would be destroyed or denatured by the high temperatures of steam distillation. In cold enfleurage, petals are placed on a layer of animal fat and their scent diffuses into the fat over 1-3 days. The method is now superseded by solvent extraction or supercritical fluid extraction using carbon dioxide.

IFRA status

See note

No IFRA Standard for the material itself (51st Amendment)

In Perfumery

Extracts of tuberose are used as a note in perfumery. Tuberose generally must be used in moderation, because the essence is overpowering and can become sickly to the wearer. Lactones are used as flavors and fragrances, and indole is a constituent of many perfumes. A well-known perfume is derived in part from the essential oils of champaca flowers.

Role in the formula

01diffusion enhancer

02modifier

03lifting agent

04volume builder

Available as

synthetic accord fantasy note