Ingredients · Florals · Made in a lab
Cherry blossom (sakura)
Cherry blossoms barely smell and yield no extract; 'sakura' is a soft almond-powder idea.
- What it is
- A flower that gives no oil worth extracting, so perfumers rebuild its smell from other materials.
- How perfumers build it
- Worth knowing
- The 'sakura' smell of Japanese cherry-leaf sweets comes from coumarin, the same hay-vanilla molecule in tonka beans.
Not named by the house of any of the 1080 perfumes read so far.