Essential oils · Floral family
Lotus essential oil
Nelumbo nucifera
Hoa sen · Nelumbonaceae
Sweet, cool, slightly powdery, with a watery layer and a little green bitterness underneath. It is far more reserved than jasmine or champaca.
The product is an absolute, and it is rare. Lotus gives very little aromatic material, so real absolute is always expensive and often replaced by ready-made blends sold under the lotus name. Pink and white lotus do not smell the same either.
Vietnam has a reference point few places share: lotus tea. What scents the tea is not the petals but the lotus “rice” — the white anthers on the stamens. The smell of lotus tea is therefore the smell of a very small part of the flower, and an absolute made from the whole flower will not be quite like that cup.
- Plant part
- Flowers
- Method
- Solvent extraction
- Vietnamese name
- Hoa sen
- Scent family
- Floral
- Plant family
- Nelumbonaceae
- Lots published
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Published lots
No lots yet. When the first lot arrives, its GC/MS analysis will be published here — unedited, with the lot number printed on the bottle label.
Buy Lotus
This oil is in the catalogue but no lot has been brought in, so it is not on sale yet. Message us if you need it — what we stock next depends on what buyers ask for.
In the scent dictionary: Hoa sen — a description of the smell, the compounds behind it, and how to smell it for yourself.
Elsewhere in the catalogue
No lot of this oil yet. The oils below are close to it botanically or in how they are extracted — some of them already have lots.
Also from the flowers Clove bud · Immortelle Madagascar · Lavender · Linden blossom · Roman chamomile · Saffron · Tuberose · Ylang ylang
Same method: solvent extraction Benzoin · Champaca · Labdanum · Night jasmine · Pomelo blossom · Vanilla