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Jade Flower

Q: Is Jade Flower natural or synthetic?

. Extraction: Not applicable — jade flower is a concept note. No botanical extraction exists. Entirely reconstructed from synthetic materials..

FLOWERS / floral · green · sweet

Jade Flower

Category	FLOWERS
Subcategory	floral · green · sweet
Origin
Volatility	Heart Note
Botanical	Chloranthus spicatus
Appearance	Pale yellow to colorless liquid (absolute)
Odor Strength	Medium
Producing Countries	Asia
Pyramid	Heart

Cool, green, translucent-floral. Jade flower is not a specific botanical — it is an olfactory concept: what a jade-colored petal would smell like if stone could bloom.

Scent
The Full Story
Fun Fact
Extraction & Chemistry
In Perfumery

Scent

Cool, green, mineral-translucent. Not warm, not sweet, not heavy. A cold floral — smooth, precise, with a stone-like quality. Like running your fingers over a piece of polished nephrite jade — the coolness and the green both register, but there is no organic warmth. A sculptural scent.

Evolution over time

Immediately

Cool green-mineral, translucent floral, precise

After a few hours

Softer, slightly warmer, more floral than mineral

After a few days

Faint cool green residue, clean, quiet

The Full Story

Jade flower (Chloranthus spicatus, Chloranthaceae) is the small evergreen shrub of southern China and Southeast Asia whose tiny clustered yellow-green flowers carry a faint, cool, green-translucent fragrance. The species is used culturally to scent tea (much like jasmine sambac), and the dried flowers feature in Chinese floral teas. The 'jade flower' name reflects the colour and shape of the bloom, not any literal jade aroma.

In perfumery

Chloranthus has no commercial fragrance extract. The 'jade flower' note in modern perfumery is a conceptual reconstruction — built around hydroxycitronellal, cis-3-hexenol, and a small fraction of methyl jasmonate to evoke the cool green-floral register without the literal material.

Did You Know?

Did you know?

Nephrite jade (the most common form of jade) gets its green color from iron and magnesium in its crystal structure — the same elements that give chlorophyll its green color in plants, creating an accidental visual parallel between stone and leaf.

Extraction & Chemistry

Extraction method: Not applicable — jade flower is a concept note. No botanical extraction exists. Entirely reconstructed from synthetic materials.

Molecular Formula	Complex mixture (contains linalool, methyl benzoate)
CAS Number	N/A — limited commercial extraction
Botanical Name	Chloranthus spicatus
IFRA Status	No known restrictions
Synonyms	JADE BLOSSOM · JADE ORCHID
Physical Properties
Odor Strength	Medium
Appearance	Pale yellow to colorless liquid (absolute)

In Perfumery

Jade flower is a fantasy concept note built from green-translucent florals (muguet molecules, peony-type accords), cool mineral modifiers, and watery-green materials. Functions as a cool, mineralic floral heart in Asian-inspired, gemstone-themed, and minimalist compositions. No natural material — entirely conceptual.