The drawing: hawthornThe drawing: hawthorn
Hawthorn

Ingredients · Florals · Made in a lab

Hawthorn

Hawthorn blossom never yields an oil; its powdery, almond-sweet spring smell is rebuilt, chiefly from anisaldehyde.

What it is
A flower that gives no oil worth extracting, so perfumers rebuild its smell from other materials.
How perfumers build it
Known in
Après l'Ondée (Guerlain, 1906)
Worth knowing
Guerlain's Après l'Ondée of 1906 is said to be the first perfume to use anisaldehyde for a hawthorn note.

Named by the house in 2 of the 1080 perfumes read so far