SMELLBOOK REFERENCE · SB-0065
Gardenia
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Character EDITORIAL
Gardenia is creamy, lush and sweet, a rich white-floral smell with a soft green undertone.
Words: floral, creamy, lush, sweet. Families: Temperature and texture, Sweet, fruity and floral.
States: cut (EDITORIAL). A state says how an entry is met, such as wet, aged or roasted. It does not create a new smell, and it adds no scientific fact by itself: states marked EDITORIAL come from the entry's own records, and only those marked VERIFIED are reported by a VERIFIED claim.
Met in: Garden.
Evidence
Scientific evidence
- Major floral volatiles of gardenia (CLM-GARDENIA-001). Vasiliki Anastasiadi, Stefanos Hatzilazarou, Emmanouil-Nikolaos Papadakis, Aikaterini-Angeliki Kotoula, Nikolaos Tsalouchos, Taxiarchis Labis, Athanasios Economou & Stefanos Kostas, Genetic Characterization of Gardenia jasminoides Ellis Genotypes Derived from Seeds and Selection Based on Their Morphological Traits and Flower Aromatic Substances, Agriculture, 2024.
Molecules named in these claims: benzyl tiglate, cis-3-hexenyl tiglate, jasmine lactone, linalool, α-farnesene. A molecule listed here is named in a VERIFIED claim about this smell. It is not presented as the cause of the smell; each claim says what its source supports.
Cite
SmellBook. (2026). Gardenia (revision 3, 2026-10-06). SmellBook Public Atlas. smellbook:smell:gardenia. https://smellbook.com/smells/gardenia
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