Ingredients · Florals · Made in a lab

Reseda

Mignonette was once made into an absolute for perfume; today its green, violet-tinged, fruity flower scent is rebuilt as a base.

What it is

A flower that gives no oil worth extracting, so perfumers rebuild its smell from other materials.

How perfumers build it

Tuberose absoluteViolet leaf absoluteOrange blossom absoluteGalbanum oil

Known in

Weekend (Burberry, 1997)

Worth knowing

Mignonette was first grown in England in the mid-18th century and soon became a fashionable scent.

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

WeekendBurberry · “Reseda plant”