Flowers for perfume and scent
Grown for their oil: rose, jasmine, tuberose, ylang-ylang.
ChampakMagnolia champaca
A tall tree with fragrant yellow to orange flowers, prized in South and Southeast Asia
🇲🇲 Myanmar 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
Decoration
Monoï oil
Traditional Tahitian scented oil made from tiaré flowers and coconut oil
Flower craft
KadambaNeolamarckia cadamba
A tropical tree with fragrant orange globe-shaped flowers from South and Southeast Asia
🇮🇳 India and 7 more · Flowering tree
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
- Arabian jasmine: Taken by Fanghong, CC BY-SA 3.0, source
- Monoï oil: Verodemortillet, CC BY-SA 4.0, source
- Kadamba: This work was made by Tushar Hossain and released under the license(s), CC BY-SA 4.0, source