Perfumes with Gardenia

Gardenia smells creamy, rich, sweet and slightly green, a velvety white floral with coconut, mushroom and soft fruity facets that feel lush on skin. Natural extracts of Gardenia jasminoides are almost unavailable commercially, so the note is usually reconstructed by perfumers.

The accord typically combines jasmine, tuberose, orange blossom and synthetic molecules, giving a lush effect that is a little greener and cooler than tuberose. Gardenia sits mainly in the heart of a fragrance. It pairs well with jasmine, tuberose, coconut, peach, musk, vanilla and sandalwood, and it is a staple of creamy white floral compositions.

Gardenia appears in 3,723 perfumes in the Fisfis catalogue and is used mostly as a heart note.