Ingredients · Florals · Made in a lab
Mahonia
No mahonia extract is made; the note copies the sweet winter scent of the shrub's yellow flower sprays.
- What it is
- A flower that gives no oil worth extracting, so perfumers rebuild its smell from other materials.
- What the real thing smells of
- Known in
- Mystique Bouquet (Afnan)
- Worth knowing
- Mahonia japonica gives off about twice as much scent by day as by night.
Named by the house in 1 of the 1080 perfumes read so far
