The drawing: rangoon creeperThe drawing: rangoon creeper
Rangoon creeper

Ingredients · Florals · Made in a lab

Rangoon creeper

No Rangoon creeper extract is sold; Gucci Bloom's note is the living flower's scent, caught by headspace and rebuilt.

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
Linalool oxide, not in Ingredients yetLinaloolcis-3-Hexenyl acetatealpha-Farnesene, not in Ingredients yetcis-3-Hexenyl tiglate, not in Ingredients yet
Known in
Bloom (Gucci, 2017)
Worth knowing
The flowers open white, turn pink, then red, and their scent weakens as they redden.

Named by the house in 1 of the 1080 perfumes read so far