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Gardenia

Gardenia grandiflora
Absolute Floral Green / Leafy Sweet Historical / Obsolete

Fatty-floral, somewhat fresh-green odor with a tuberose-like, sweet undertone, faintly reminiscent of the fragrance of the gardenia flower, but with heavy emphasis on the leafy-gre…

Geranium Oil

Pelargonium graveolens
Essential Oil Floral Sweet Readily Available

Vanilla

Vanilla planifolia
Other Animalic Balsamic Sweet Readily Available

Extremely rich, sweet, somewhat woody and animal (castoreum-like), tobacco-like and very deep in its balsamic, sweet-spicy body-note. Actually, the odor of vanillin is not one of t…

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