Floral Notes

Floral notes are among the most used and appreciated in perfumery, offering a variety of aromas from a vast range of flowers. They are often classified into different categories to better represent their distinct olfactory characteristics:

1. **White florals:** These notes come from white flowers such as jasmine, lily of the valley, gardenia, tuberose, and neroli. They evoke soft, sweet, sometimes powdery and sensual aromas.

2. **Light florals:** These include flowers like orange blossom, freesia, cherry blossom, and apple blossom, offering delicate, fresh, and often airy scents.

3. **Floral florals:** These notes come from flowers like rose, lily, and violet, and offer rich, sophisticated, and sometimes intense scents.

4. **Green florals:** Associated with fresher plants, such as violet leaf, lily of the valley, and galbanum, these perfumes are bright, fresh, and often herbaceous.

5. **Fruity florals:** They combine floral notes with fruity nuances, using flowers such as magnolia, sambac jasmine, and create joyful and invigorating scents.

These different floral notes are often combined in perfumes to create complex and balanced compositions. They can be associated with woody, spicy, fruity, or gourmand notes to create a wide variety of unique perfumes. Perfumers can also play with the proportions of these notes to achieve different effects and emotions in a fragrant composition.