Note

Gardenia

Gardenia smells creamy and sweet, with green freshness and sometimes a mushroom-like earthy undertone. Usually recreated, it fills the floral heart and pairs with jasmine, tuberose, musk, and sandalwood.

In 109 perfumes. Usually found in the heart.

Opening
13%
Heart
86%
Drydown
2%
Found in Shinanay, Tuberóza and Zenne

Most popular with gardenia

The best-known perfumes carrying it anywhere in the pyramid.

Often paired with

Notes that show up next to gardenia more often than chance would predict.

How it reads

Sweet and white floral above all. Reaches for lactonic far more often than the catalogue as a whole.

  • sweet
  • white floral
  • woody
  • lactonic
  • citrus
  • floral
  • musky
  • vanilla