Pink Lily

NaturalFLOWERSfloral · sweet · powdery

HeartPyramid

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Specimen

Lilium

Definition

Lily flowers are large, often fragrant, and come in a wide range of colors including whites, yellows, oranges, pinks, reds and purples.

FLORAL GREEN SWEET POWDERY WARM FRESH CREAMY HONEYED

Type: Ingredient
Olfactive family: Florals
Subfamily: Fruity florals
Cluster: Lily-like fresh florals

Instruments

Pyramid

TTop

HHeart

BBase

Scent

The cultivars 'Pink Brilliant', 'Pink Heaven' and 'Bell Song' smell fruity and sweet with a floral note. 'Pink Mist', 'Garden Affair' and 'Palazzo' give a fruity odor with a sweet resinous nuance. The Trumpet hybrid 'Pink Perfection' has a musky odor. A few subjects could detect a faint fragrance from the flowers of 'Pink Flavour'.

In PREMIEREPEAU

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The Full Story

Lilies are a group of flowering plants of the genus Lilium. Most species are native to the Northern Hemisphere, in temperate climates and into the subtropics. They are tall perennials, 30 to 180 cm high, that grow from scaly underground bulbs. Lily flowers are large, often fragrant, and come in a wide range of colors including whites, yellows, oranges, pinks, reds and purples.

Garden groups

Asiatic hybrids have the widest color range of the lilies, and their flowers include pink. Oriental hybrids are fragrant, and their flowers tend to be outward facing.

Scent compounds

A study of 41 lily cultivars identified 46 individual volatile compounds. Methyl benzoate was the only component detected in every accession.

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Related: Arum Lily · Biomuguet · Calla Lily · Crinum Lily · Daylily · Fire Lily · Florhydral · Hydroxycitronellal

Did You Know?

Lilium 'Stargazer' got its name because, unlike other Oriental lilies, its blooms faced towards the sky. Most Asiatic hybrid lilies have no scent. Lilium longiflorum is known as the Easter lily because in Christianity it is a symbol of the resurrection of Christ.

Extraction & Chemistry

Extraction method

Lilium longiflorum is raised as a cut flower crop and forced to flower outside its normal season for particular markets, such as the Easter trade. Terpene synthase genes encode the enzymes that carry out the last steps of monoterpene synthesis, and enzymes cloned from lilies converted GPP into (E)-β-ocimene, α-pinene and limonene.

Botanical: Lilium

IFRA status

See note

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

In Perfumery

Lily cultivars have been classified by scent quality into six groups: faint-scented, cool, fruity, musky, fruity-honey and lily.

Role in the formula

01diffusion enhancer

02signature note

03lifting agent

04blender

05volume builder

06freshness

Available as

flower bulb