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
