Flowers for perfume and scent
Grown for their oil: rose, jasmine, tuberose, ylang-ylang.
JasmineJasminum
A group of fragrant shrubs and vines with white or yellow star-shaped flowers
🇵🇰 Pakistan and 7 more · Wildflower
HoneysuckleLonicera
Twining vines and shrubs with sweet-scented tubular flowers and edible nectar
Lonicera · Wildflower
Vanilla
Climbing orchids with pods used for the world’s most popular flavor
🇲🇽 Mexico and 7 more · Wildflower
Common jasmineJasminum officinale
A climbing plant with white, fragrant flowers grown in gardens and for perfume
🇵🇰 Pakistan and 7 more · Garden flower
Himalayan musk roseRosa brunonii
A white wild rose climbing the Himalayan hillsides
🇨🇳 China · Wildflower
VanillaVanilla planifolia
The climbing orchid behind most of the world’s vanilla flavour
🇲🇽 Mexico and 8 more · Wildflower
Confederate jasmineTrachelospermum jasminoides
A fragrant climbing vine with star-shaped white flowers from East and Southeast Asia
🇨🇳 China and 3 more · Garden flower
Photo credits on this page
The small pictures above come from Wikimedia Commons under free licences. Some are cropped to fit.
- Vanilla: Everglades National Park, Public domain, source
- Jasmine: HelenOnline, CC BY-SA 3.0, source
- Honeysuckle: Walter Siegmund, CC BY 2.5, source
- Himalayan musk rose: A. J. T. Johnsingh, WWF-India and NCF, CC BY-SA 3.0, source
- Vanilla: Vanillinmacher at German Wikipedia, Attribution, source
- Confederate jasmine: Scott Zona, CC BY 2.0, source
- Common jasmine: Dinesh Valke, CC BY-SA 2.0, source