Natural Ingredients

Labdanum is an aromatic resin obtained from cistus growing around the Mediterranean. Explore its warm, sweet amber and leathery scent, and its role in perfume.

Juniper berry is a fragrance material distilled from common juniper berries. Explore its aromatic, coniferous and woody character, with a refreshing scent reminiscent of gin.

Honeysuckle is known in Japanese as suikazura, a name referring to its sweet floral nectar. Its fragrance intensifies toward dusk, with a hint of jasmine touched with vanilla.

Explore honey’s confectionery sweetness and sensual side as a fragrance note, and its varied uses in gourmand, floral, woody, and other perfumes.

Explore the origin of heliotrope’s name and its botanical background, and discover how its sweet, powdery floral scent is expressed in perfume through representative examples.

How is hazelnut expressed in perfume? Explore its roasted-nut character and its use in gourmand fragrances.

Geranium leaves are covered in oil-secreting hairs and release a rose-like scent when touched. Its flowers are small and pale pink. Steam-distilling the slightly wilted leaves and stems produces a rose-scented essential oil.

Gardenia, called kuchinashi in Japan, has an intoxicating white-floral scent with a pungent greenness and earthy nuances.