Flowers for perfume and scent
Grown for their oil: rose, jasmine, tuberose, ylang-ylang.
Plumeria
Fragrant tropical tree with waxy, five-petaled flowers in many colours
🇲🇽 Mexico and 6 more · Flowering tree
Wild PansyViola tricolor
A small wildflower with purple, yellow, and white blooms found across Eurasia
🇨🇳 China and 3 more · Wildflower
Aztec marigoldTagetes erecta
The golden-yellow flower of Mexican altars and Day of the Dead offerings
🇲🇽 Mexico and 6 more · Wildflower
Guettarda speciosa
A coastal shrub with fragrant white flowers found on tropical beaches
🇦🇺 Australia and 5 more · Wildflower
White garland-lilyHedychium coronarium
Tall, fragrant white flowers from the ginger family, grown and loved across continents
🇮🇳 India and 7 more · Wildflower
Spanish cherryMimusops elengi
A fragrant evergreen tree with cream flowers and edible fruit
🇮🇳 India and 7 more · Flowering tree
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
Sasanqua camelliaCamellia sasanqua
An evergreen shrub with winter flowers and fragrant petals, native to southern Japan
🇯🇵 Japan and 1 more · Flowering shrub
Garden rose
The classic ornamental flowering shrub of gardens worldwide
🇨🇳 China and 7 more · Garden flower
SaffronCrocus sativus
The crimson threads of an autumn crocus, dried for colour, flavour and scent
🇮🇷 Iran and 6 more · Bulb flower
FrangipaniPlumeria rubra
A fragrant tropical tree with pink, white and yellow flowers
🇲🇽 Mexico and 7 more · Flowering tree
French marigoldTagetes patula
A small marigold with yellow to orange blooms, valued in gardens and Georgian cooking
🇲🇽 Mexico and 3 more · Wildflower
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
- Plumeria: Renesis, CC BY-SA 3.0, source
- French marigold: Muhammad Mahdi Karim, GFDL 1.2, source
- Aztec marigold: HitroMilanese, CC BY-SA 3.0, source
- Wild Pansy: Kim Hansen, CC BY-SA 3.0, source
- Guettarda speciosa: MargaretRDonald, CC BY-SA 4.0, source
- White garland-lily: Forest & Kim Starr, CC BY 3.0, source
- Spanish cherry: Wibowo Djatmiko ( Wie146 ), CC BY-SA 3.0, source
- Arabian jasmine: Taken by Fanghong, CC BY-SA 3.0, source
- Sasanqua camellia: KENPEI, CC BY-SA 3.0, source
- Garden rose: Laitche, Public domain, source
- Frangipani: Zachi Evenor and MathKnight, CC BY 2.0, source