Natural Ingredients

Explore black pepper as a plant, the scent of its essential oil, and its use in perfume. Learn about the characteristics behind its spicy scent and examples of its use.

Known as the “flower of flowers,” ylang ylang is a rich floral fragrance material. Explore its origins, the grades separated during distillation, and its sweet, sensual scent.

Explore the names and stories associated with violets, the powdery sweetness of their flowers, the green scent of their leaves, and how materials such as ionone express these scents.

Tuberose is also known by names meaning “fragrance beneath the moon” and “evening-fragrant jade” because of its strong fragrance at night. Explore a scent that combines rich sweetness with green facets.

Native to southern Europe, thyme belongs to the mint family and produces white, pink, or pale purplish-pink flowers. The scent extracted from its dried flowering branches is spicy and aromatic, with a surprising leathery quality.

Saffron is a rare spice obtained by drying the pistils of the saffron crocus. Learn about its harvest and the dry, leathery scent expressed in perfume.

Pomegranate is the fruit known in Japan as zakuro. Learn how it is used to give perfume fruity juiciness and a wine-like character.

Despite its name, pink pepper is the fruit of a plant outside the pepper family. Explore its rosy fruitiness and bright, stimulating spicy scent.