Ingredients · Florals · Made in a lab
Wisteria
Wisteria is a 'silent flower': no essence or absolute can be got from it, so its sweet, powdery scent is rebuilt.
- 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
- Olène (Diptyque, 1988)
- Worth knowing
- The flowers of Chinese wisteria smell of grapes.
Named by the house in 2 of the 1080 perfumes read so far
