Archive Gardenia
Heart note · Floral
Gardenia.
Creamy white petals with a green, mushroomy underside.
Our read on the material, not a measurement.
What it smells like.
Gardenia is creamy and heady like tuberose but with a curious green, faintly mushroomy quality underneath that makes it smell convincingly like a real flower rather than a perfume note.
It gives a floral heart body and realism. It is rich and quite dominant, and that green underside means it does not always read as conventionally pretty, which is usually its appeal.
Gardenia extraction has never been commercially practical, so the great gardenia perfumes have always been recreations, built from creamy lactones, jasmine and green notes. The flower itself is famously worn rather than bottled: pinned to lapels and hair long before it was recreated in a lab.
In a blend.
A rich white floral with a strange, natural edge.
Floral. Soft to expressive florals with elegance at their core. Shop the floral scents.
Pairs beautifully with.
The 4 scents built with it.
Questions about gardenia.
What does gardenia smell like?
Creamy white petals with a green, mushroomy underside. Gardenia is creamy and heady like tuberose but with a curious green, faintly mushroomy quality underneath that makes it smell convincingly like a real flower rather than a perfume note.
Is gardenia a top, heart or base note?
It sits in the heart, which is the part of a fragrance you notice once the opening has settled. A rich white floral with a strange, natural edge.
What does gardenia pair well with?
The studio would start with tuberose, sandlewood, jasmine and white amber. It gives a floral heart body and realism. It is rich and quite dominant, and that green underside means it does not always read as conventionally pretty, which is usually its appeal.
What fragrance family is gardenia in?
Floral. Soft to expressive florals with elegance at their core.
Which Next Fragrance scents contain gardenia?
4, including Next Ruby - Eau De Parfum, Next Ruby - Perfume Oil and Next Bloom - Essential Oil. Every note listed on a product page is the real pyramid for that fragrance.
Build your own.
We do not offer gardenia at the bench, but there are notes close to it that we do.
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