INGREDIENT GLOSSARY
Freesia
Freesia × hybrida · Iris family (Iridaceae)
Bright, fresh and softly peppery-floral, with a green stem note and a light, powdery violet shimmer.
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INGREDIENT GLOSSARY
Fragrances with Freesia
Damarose, Xerjoff 17/17 Stone Label
Sale price€400,00
(€8.000,00/L)
Ybry Rubis, Ybry Parfums Paris
Sale price€245,00
(€3.266,67/L)
Breath of the Infinite, THoO Desert Day Collection
Sale price€220,00
(€2.933,33/L)
Questions and answers
Bright, fresh and softly peppery-floral, with a green stem note and a light, powdery violet shimmer.
- The genus Freesia is named after the German F. H. T. Freese.
Several analyses identify linalool (C₁₀H₁₈O) as the most abundant scent compound in freesia flowers – roughly 39 to over 90 percent of volatiles depending on cultivar; in perfumery, freesia is recreated as an accord.
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