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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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