Flowers for perfume and scent
Grown for their oil: rose, jasmine, tuberose, ylang-ylang.
Arabian jasmineJasminum sambac
A small white jasmine with a strong, sweet scent, treasured in Asia for garlands and ceremonies
🇨🇳 China and 7 more · Flowering shrub
Decoration
rose oil
Essential oil distilled from rose petals, prized in perfume and tradition
🇧🇬 Bulgaria and 4 more · Flower craft
HeliotropeHeliotropium
A genus of fragrant, sun-tracking garden flowers that are highly toxic
🇨🇱 Chile and 2 more · Herb or useful flower
StockMatthiola
A group of scented flowering plants grown for their colourful blooms
Matthiola · Garden flower
Confederate jasmineTrachelospermum jasminoides
A fragrant climbing vine with star-shaped white flowers from East and Southeast Asia
🇨🇳 China and 3 more · Garden flower
JonquilNarcissus jonquilla
A spring-flowering daffodil with narrow leaves and sweet-scented blooms
🇪🇸 Spain and 6 more · Wildflower
Lavandula pedunculata
A wild lavender with purple bracts, native to Iberia, Morocco and western Turkey
🇲🇦 Morocco and 1 more · Wildflower
Verbena
A genus of small, spiked flowers grown in gardens and linked to ancient rituals
Verbena · Wildflower
Tahitian gardeniaGardenia taitensis
A fragrant white flower woven into Pacific island garlands and oils
🇹🇴 Tonga and 1 more · Garden flower
Decoration
Monoï oil
Traditional Tahitian scented oil made from tiaré flowers and coconut oil
Flower craft
Sasanqua camelliaCamellia sasanqua
An evergreen shrub with winter flowers and fragrant petals, native to southern Japan
🇯🇵 Japan and 1 more · Flowering shrub
KadambaNeolamarckia cadamba
A tropical tree with fragrant orange globe-shaped flowers from South and Southeast Asia
🇮🇳 India and 7 more · Flowering tree
Illyrian irisIris pallida subsp. illyrica
A Balkan iris once valued for perfume and folk remedies
🇸🇮 Slovenia and 7 more · Wildflower
Garden hyacinthHyacinthus orientalis
A spring bulb with dense, fragrant flower clusters in many colours
🇹🇷 Turkey and 6 more · Garden flower
Boronia
A genus of fragrant shrubs mostly found in Australia’s open forests
🇦🇺 Australia · Wildflower
Cabbage roseRosa × centifolia
A highly scented old rose grown for perfume and gardens
🇨🇳 China · Garden flower
Damask roseRosa × damascena
A fragrant pink rose grown for oil, water, and sweets in West and South Asia
🇮🇷 Iran and 6 more · Garden flower
Fragrant screw-pinePandanus odorifer
A small tropical tree with sweet-scented flowers used for perfume and rituals
🇮🇳 India and 4 more · Flowering tree
Common jasmineJasminum officinale
A climbing plant with white, fragrant flowers grown in gardens and for perfume
🇵🇰 Pakistan and 7 more · Garden flower
Tulip orchidsAnguloa
Large, cinnamon-scented orchids from the Andes with tulip-shaped blooms
🇻🇪 Venezuela and 4 more · Wildflower
Decoration
Orange flower water
A fragrant distillate from bitter-orange blossoms used in food, drink, and tradition
🇩🇿 Algeria and 7 more · Flower craft
Decoration
Kewraकेवड़ा
A fragrant extract from screwpine flowers used in food, worship, and perfume
🇮🇳 India · Offering or rite
Sweet mock orangePhiladelphus coronarius
A fragrant white-flowered shrub from the Caucasus and Turkey, grown in gardens
🇹🇷 Turkey and 7 more · Flowering shrub
Orange blossomCitrus sinensis
The fragrant white flower of the sweet orange tree, used in perfume and food
🇪🇸 Spain and 1 more · Garden flower
TuberosePolianthes tuberosa
A highly fragrant white flower grown from tuberous roots, prized for perfume and decoration
🇲🇽 Mexico and 2 more · Garden flower
Mexican bush sageSalvia leucantha
A velvety purple-flowered sage from Mexico, grown for its showy garden blooms
🇲🇽 Mexico · Garden flower
Helichrysum
A large group of daisy-like flowers known for their lasting dried blooms
🇿🇦 South Africa and 2 more · Wildflower
Wild bergamotMonarda fistulosa
A fragrant North American wildflower with pink to lavender blooms
🇺🇸 United States and 1 more · Wildflower
YellowhornXanthoceras sorbifolium
A hardy flowering tree from northern China with edible seeds and fragrant white blooms
🇨🇳 China and 2 more · Flowering tree
Poet's daffodilNarcissus poeticus
A fragrant white daffodil linked to ancient Greek myth and poetry
🇪🇸 Spain and 6 more · Wildflower
Iris florentina
A white, violet-scented iris grown for orris root and as a grave flower
🇮🇹 Italy and 7 more · Wildflower
Photo credits on this page
The small pictures above come from Wikimedia Commons under free licences. Some are cropped to fit.
- rose oil: Itineranttrader, Public domain, source
- Concrete (perfumery): Kurt Stüber [1], CC BY-SA 3.0, source
- Helichrysum: Iorsh at English Wikipedia, Public domain, source
- Yellowhorn: Joseph Dalton Hooker (1817-1911), Public domain, source
- Poet's daffodil: Arnaucc, CC BY-SA 3.0, source
- Iris florentina: Abrahami, CC BY-SA 4.0, source
- Arabian jasmine: Taken by Fanghong, CC BY-SA 3.0, source
- Heliotrope: Kurt Stüber [1], CC BY-SA 3.0, source
- Stock: Mharfouche, Public domain, source
- Confederate jasmine: Scott Zona, CC BY 2.0, source
- Jonquil: Cillas, CC BY-SA 4.0, source
- Lavandula pedunculata: Xemenendura, CC BY-SA 4.0, source
- Verbena: Unknown author, CC BY-SA 3.0, source
- Tahitian gardenia: Unknown author, CC BY-SA 3.0, source
- Monoï oil: Verodemortillet, CC BY-SA 4.0, source
- Sasanqua camellia: KENPEI, 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
- Illyrian iris: Motohiro Sunouchi, CC BY 4.0, source
- Garden hyacinth: Rasbak, CC BY-SA 3.0, source
- Boronia: Melburnian, CC BY 3.0, source
- Cabbage rose: Nadiatalent, CC BY-SA 3.0, source
- Fragrant screw-pine: Wibowo Djatmiko ( Wie146 ), CC BY-SA 3.0, source
- Common jasmine: Dinesh Valke, CC BY-SA 2.0, source
- Tulip orchids: Zanerappa, CC BY-SA 4.0, source
- Orange flower water: Amadalvarez, CC BY-SA 4.0, source
- Kewra: Miansari66, Public domain, source
- Sweet mock orange: No machine-readable author provided. Rainer Bielefeld assumed (based o, Public domain, source
- Orange blossom: Alexander Hardin, CC BY 3.0, source
- Tuberose: Forest & Kim Starr, CC BY 3.0, source
- Mexican bush sage: Netherzone, CC BY-SA 4.0, source
- Wild bergamot: Hardyplants at English Wikipedia, Public domain, source