Ingredients · Florals · Made in a lab

Bluebell

Bluebells give perfumery no extract; the cool, green, hyacinth-like sweetness of a bluebell wood is rebuilt in the lab.

What it is

A flower that gives no oil worth extracting, so perfumers rebuild its smell from other materials.

How perfumers build it

Phenylacetaldehyde, not in Ingredients yetGalbanum oilcis-3-HexenolHedione (jasmine)

Known in

Light Blue (Dolce & Gabbana, 2001)

Worth knowing

In the United Kingdom the wild bluebell is protected by law: taking its bulbs from the wild is a criminal offence.

Named by the house in 2 of the 1181 perfumes read so far

Light BlueDolce & Gabbana · “bluebell”Citrus Green AppleDossier · “Bluebell”