Essential oils · Floral family
Tuberose essential oil
Polianthes tuberosa
Hoa huệ · Asparagaceae
White flowers, dense, sweet and creamy, with a green, slightly rubbery opening that few other flowers have. It is one of the heaviest floral smells there is, and close up it is almost overwhelming.
Tuberose keeps releasing its scent after it has been picked, and most strongly at night. That is why, in the past, it was laid on cold fat for days to capture all of that scent rather than distilled. Today the product is an absolute extracted with solvent, and it remains among the most expensive raw materials.
Vietnamese people know this smell well, even if few call it tuberose: it is the bunch of white hoa huệ on the family altar on the full moon and the first day of the lunar month. Hoa huệ is not the same as hoa huệ tây — that is the Vietnamese name for the Easter lily, a completely different plant, and the two names are often mixed up.
- Plant part
- Flowers
- Method
- Enfleurage
- Vietnamese name
- Hoa huệ
- Scent family
- Floral
- Plant family
- Asparagaceae
- 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 Tuberose
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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.
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