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Flowers for perfume and scent

Grown for their oil: rose, jasmine, tuberose, ylang-ylang.

SaffronCrocus sativus The crimson threads of an autumn crocus, dried for colour, flavour and scent 🇮🇷 Iran and 6 more · Bulb flower

PaperwhiteNarcissus tazetta A tall, white-and-yellow narcissus grown for scent and indoor blooms 🇫🇷 France and 7 more · Bulb flower

JonquilNarcissus jonquilla A spring-flowering daffodil with narrow leaves and sweet-scented blooms 🇪🇸 Spain and 6 more · Wildflower

Garden hyacinthHyacinthus orientalis A spring bulb with dense, fragrant flower clusters in many colours 🇹🇷 Turkey and 6 more · Garden flower

Freesia A fragrant corm-grown flower with funnel-shaped blooms in many colours 🇿🇦 South Africa and 7 more · Bulb flower

Photo credits on this page

The small pictures above come from Wikimedia Commons under free licences. Some are cropped to fit.

Saffron: Hubertl, CC BY-SA 4.0, source
Paperwhite: Zachi Evenor, CC BY 2.0, source
Jonquil: Cillas, CC BY-SA 4.0, source
Garden hyacinth: Rasbak, CC BY-SA 3.0, source
Freesia: Alvesgaspar, CC BY-SA 3.0, source

The weekly bunch

Every Monday: what is in bloom, the flower festivals of the week, seven flowers you may not know and one tradition explained.