Flowers for perfume and scent
Grown for their oil: rose, jasmine, tuberose, ylang-ylang.
Eucalyptus
The tall, aromatic trees and shrubs known as gum trees or eucalypts
🇦🇺 Australia and 7 more · Flowering tree
Bitter orangeCitrus × aurantium
The citrus tree behind Seville orange marmalade and Neroli oil
🇨🇳 China and 6 more · Flowering tree
Camellia
Evergreen shrubs and trees with showy blooms, best known for tea and garden flowers
🇨🇳 China and 6 more · Garden flower
Plumeria
Fragrant tropical tree with waxy, five-petaled flowers in many colours
🇲🇽 Mexico and 6 more · Flowering tree
Ylang-ylangCananga odorata
A tropical tree with highly fragrant yellow flowers used for perfume and decoration
🇻🇳 Vietnam and 8 more · Flowering tree
Bayur treePterospermum acerifolium
A tall Southeast Asian tree with large fragrant white flowers and dinner-plate leaves
🇲🇲 Myanmar and 2 more · Flowering tree
Spanish cherryMimusops elengi
A fragrant evergreen tree with cream flowers and edible fruit
🇮🇳 India and 7 more · Flowering tree
KadambaNeolamarckia cadamba
A tropical tree with fragrant orange globe-shaped flowers from South and Southeast Asia
🇮🇳 India and 7 more · Flowering tree
Fragrant screw-pinePandanus odorifer
A small tropical tree with sweet-scented flowers used for perfume and rituals
🇮🇳 India and 4 more · Flowering tree
Melaleuca
A large Australian genus of shrubs and trees with brush-like flowers
🇦🇺 Australia and 4 more · Flowering tree
Golden wattleAcacia pycnantha
Australia's national flower, with fluffy golden blooms and sickle-shaped phyllodes
🇦🇺 Australia and 7 more · Flowering tree
Sweet acaciaVachellia farnesiana
A thorny shrub or small tree with fragrant yellow flowers used in perfumery
🇲🇽 Mexico and 7 more · Flowering shrub
SnowbellStyrax
A genus of shrubs and small trees with drooping white flowers
🇪🇬 Egypt and 3 more · Flowering shrub
FrangipaniPlumeria rubra
A fragrant tropical tree with pink, white and yellow flowers
🇲🇽 Mexico and 7 more · Flowering tree
ChampakMagnolia champaca
A tall tree with fragrant yellow to orange flowers, prized in South and Southeast Asia
🇲🇲 Myanmar and 7 more · Flowering tree
YellowhornXanthoceras sorbifolium
A hardy flowering tree from northern China with edible seeds and fragrant white blooms
🇨🇳 China and 2 more · Flowering tree
Sphaerocoryne lefevreiរំដួល
A fragrant Southeast Asian tree with cream to yellow blossoms
🇰🇭 Cambodia and 3 more · Wildflower
Guettarda speciosa
A coastal shrub with fragrant white flowers found on tropical beaches
🇦🇺 Australia and 5 more · Wildflower
Photo credits on this page
The small pictures above come from Wikimedia Commons under free licences. Some are cropped to fit.
- Champak: Francisco Manuel Blanco (O.S.A.), Public domain, source
- Eucalyptus: Ethel Aardvark, CC BY 3.0, source
- Plumeria: Renesis, CC BY-SA 3.0, source
- Camellia: junichiro aoyama, CC BY 2.0, source
- Yellowhorn: Joseph Dalton Hooker (1817-1911), Public domain, source
- Bitter orange: A. Barra, CC BY-SA 4.0, source
- Sphaerocoryne lefevrei: ទេព សុវិចិត្រ at Khmer Wikipedia, Public domain, source
- Guettarda speciosa: MargaretRDonald, CC BY-SA 4.0, source
- Bayur tree: J.M.Garg, CC BY 3.0, source
- Spanish cherry: Wibowo Djatmiko ( Wie146 ), CC BY-SA 3.0, source
- Ylang-ylang: User:B.navez, CC BY-SA 3.0, source
- Kadamba: This work was made by Tushar Hossain and released under the license(s), CC BY-SA 4.0, source
- Fragrant screw-pine: Wibowo Djatmiko ( Wie146 ), CC BY-SA 3.0, source
- Melaleuca: Forest & Kim Starr, CC BY 3.0, source
- Golden wattle: Melburnian, CC BY-SA 3.0, source
- Sweet acacia: Judgefloro, Public domain, source
- Snowbell: Unknown author, Public domain, source
- Frangipani: Zachi Evenor and MathKnight, CC BY 2.0, source