The first bulbs were planted in Grasse in the 17th century to exploit the perfume of its thick and waxy flowers. From now on, the tuberose is cultivated in the south of India, in Egypt, but also in Morocco and in Tunisia, as well as in China and in Comoros. Known to be very fragrant, white flowers are renowned for their olfactory power. Tuberose is said to be the most fragrant plant in the plant world. And for good reason because its opulent scent continues to exhale even 48 hours after picking.
This already powerful perfume has the particularity to become even more intense once the night falls. Moreover, in Italy during the Renaissance, young girls were forbidden to walk in the gardens at night, at the risk of succumbing to this narcotic fragrance which would have given them some ideas that would not have been very chaste!
This sensual smell perfumed the corridors of Versailles. In India, tuberose is used as a decoration in weddings and in the bridal room of the young couple.
Its erotic scent would thus promote the love connection! Picking the tuberose requires a lot of patience and know-how. The flowers are picked one by one by hand, every morning when the sun rises and the corollas open.
It is at this moment that the odorous compounds are the most concentrated. This flower is fragile and cannot be extracted in any way. In the past, the cold enfleurage process was used. The flowers were placed on large wooden frames which were covered with animal or vegetable fat. But this long and tedious technique was gradually abandoned. Today, we proceed to an extraction with volatile solvents of the flowers which delivers the so much sought-after absolute. This perfumed product is very expensive because it takes more than kilos of petals to obtain barely grams of absolute!
Just like other white flowers, tuberose has a very feminine scent. Its absolute releases a multitude of nuances. We find milky accents with very sunny and orange notes, and also a honeyed and almond side, like a fruity jasmine.
One whiff transports me to her living room on sultry summer nights…. I like descriptions that are vivid and specific—not typical or generic. I have liked tuberose accords a lot in the past too! Love the vivid description and interesting history lesson! Loved the reference to tuberose having a menthol facet — I get this too, especially in perfume!
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Laurie Perkins September 15, Anne Berbling September 15, Titillating article! In the past, it was processed by enfleurage. Tuberose, which comes from India, has a narcotic odour, it is a little medicinal in the top notes , like an ointment scent, but after a few seconds tuberose offers a sulphurous scent between honeyed and candied nectar, generous to the point of excess, exotic.
Tuberose is poisonous and extremely sensual. Some brands cannot afford the natural tuberose but can always use the reconstitution, which will always be different from the natural flower scent. To get the idea of a tuberose, the perfumer will have to orchestrate different notes: natural jasmine or a composition of jasmine, ylang-ylang, indole, coconut, Methyl Anthranytlate style orange note, heliotropin, mimosa , and other trace elements.
Botanical name of tuberose: Polyanthes tuberosa Botanical family of tuberose: Agavaceae. Tuberose flower has 5 petals. There are 20 flowers per tuberose spike. It takes 1, tuberose flowers to produce 1 kg of absolute.
Tuberose blooms from May to December, peaking in August. They are picked by hand each morning as the corollas open. A thousand plants yield an average of 30 to 40 kg of flowers. Tuberose plant measures between 1m and 1. It is a fragile flower that likes to be clean and requires daily maintenance with a lot of manual weeding. This flower used to be part of the Grasse landscape like jasmine, rose or mimosa, but its cultivation had become too expensive in France, the labour is expensive and the yields are too low.
But recently, thanks to some producers in Grasse, it can be found again in the shelter of the Tanneron massif. Some small producers have even re-launched, in an anecdotal way, the enfleurage thanks to the association of exceptional flowers of the Grasse region. Tuberose can only be extracted with volatile solvents to obtain tuberose absolute. Its absolute is one of the most expensive in the world. White flower scent like jasmine, orange blossom, neroli , frangipani , gardenia, magnolia, lily.
White flowers are feminine absolutes.
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