Gardenia: A captivating scent that awakens the romance of every woman

Gardenia’s full name is Gardenia Jasminoides or Gardenia Augusta. It has a white color and begins to turn to yellow and dark yellow when getting old. Gardenia gives off a sweet scent all day, which gives a feeling of romance, and seduction, or perhaps the scent is similar to jasmine or tuberose. It is a flower that is suitable as a component of perfume because the scent of Gardenia goes well with other flowers such as Jasmine, Neroli, Rose, Tuberose, and Ylang-Ylang or spice scents such as Cinnamon and Clove.

Gardenia flowers’ romantic scent comes from compounds such as Benzyl Acetate, a sweet scent found in jasmine, Linalool, a refreshing scent found in many flowers, and Methyl Anthranilate, a sensual scent found in tuberose flowers. In addition, there are compounds such as lactone, which is found in sweet-scented fruits such as peaches or apricots. These compounds bring balance, resulting in Gardenia flowers becoming a charming scent.

Gardenia is native to southern China and Japan where it is considered a symbol of elegance, tenderness, and femininity. It is a valuable flower because it not only fragrant ingredients in perfumes but also can be used for a variety of purposes, especially in traditional Chinese medicine. Chinese people like to use Gardenia as medicine to relieve swelling, stress, and insomnia because the Gardenia scent can help you feel warm and relaxed. Moreover, in some countries, it is popular to use Gardenia to decorate weddings.

The method for extracting the scent of Gardenia is not easy because their difficulty at extraction is well known in the perfume industry. The reason is Gardenia’s petals cannot withstand the heat of steam distillation or non-thermal methods such as soaking in alcohol. Even cold fat extraction is unable to bring out the fragrance of Gardenia fully. Perfume manufacturers often use synthetic substances mixed with various flower and herbal oils to imitate the scent of Gardenia, but the synthetic scent doesn’t match the real one. Synthetic scents have a pungent odor, unlike the natural Gardenia scent. For this reason, Gardenia is one of those unique flower scents that any synthetic aroma cannot replace. The actual way to extract Gardenia scent can be done by extracting it with palm oil until the scent is absorbed into the palm oil, then separating the palm oil and the scent by alcohol. This method takes a long time and requires a lot of effort, so this is another reason why most perfumers prefer to use synthetic scent instead of the real Gardenia scent.

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