Flowers for perfume and scent
Grown for their oil: rose, jasmine, tuberose, ylang-ylang.
RosemarySalvia rosmarinus
A fragrant evergreen shrub with needle-like leaves and purple, blue, or white flowers
🇪🇸 Spain and 5 more · Flowering shrub
Lily-of-the-valleyConvallaria majalis
A woodland plant with sweet-scented white bell flowers in late spring
🇫🇮 Finland and 4 more · Wildflower
HoneysuckleLonicera
Twining vines and shrubs with sweet-scented tubular flowers and edible nectar
Lonicera · Wildflower
Common sageSalvia officinalis
A Mediterranean herb with grey-green leaves and blue to purple flowers
🇨🇳 China and 1 more · Herb or useful flower
Camellia
Evergreen shrubs and trees with showy blooms, best known for tea and garden flowers
🇨🇳 China and 6 more · Garden flower
Wild PansyViola tricolor
A small wildflower with purple, yellow, and white blooms found across Eurasia
🇨🇳 China and 3 more · Wildflower
ColumbineAquilegia
A perennial wildflower with spurred, often blue or multicoloured blooms
Aquilegia · Wildflower
Nazareth IrisIris bismarckiana
A rare mountain iris with veined pale flowers from Israel and Lebanon
🇮🇱 Israel and 3 more · Wildflower
Sweet irisIris pallida
A Mediterranean iris grown for its scented roots and pale purple flowers
🇭🇷 Croatia and 4 more · Garden flower
Guettarda speciosa
A coastal shrub with fragrant white flowers found on tropical beaches
🇦🇺 Australia and 5 more · Wildflower
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
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
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
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
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
Cabbage roseRosa × centifolia
A highly scented old rose grown for perfume and gardens
🇨🇳 China · Garden flower
Decoration
Rose waterگلاب
Flavoured water made by steeping or distilling rose petals
🇮🇷 Iran and 2 more · 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
VanillaVanilla planifolia
The climbing orchid behind most of the world’s vanilla flavour
🇲🇽 Mexico and 8 more · Wildflower
Spanish broomSpartium junceum
A tall shrub with rush-like stems and fragrant yellow flowers
🇵🇪 Peru and 6 more · Flowering shrub
French lavenderLavandula stoechas
A Mediterranean lavender with purple bracts atop its flower spikes
🇪🇸 Spain and 2 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 water: E4024, CC BY-SA 4.0, source
- Vanilla: Everglades National Park, Public domain, source
- Spanish broom: Hans Hillewaert, CC BY-SA 3.0, source
- Common sage: Kurt Stüber [1], CC BY-SA 3.0, source
- Camellia: junichiro aoyama, CC BY 2.0, source
- French lavender: Sten Porse, CC BY-SA 3.0, 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
- Lily-of-the-valley: Salicyna, CC BY-SA 4.0, source
- Rosemary: Miguel Angel Masegosa Martínez, CC BY 2.0, source
- Honeysuckle: Walter Siegmund, CC BY 2.5, source
- Wild Pansy: Kim Hansen, CC BY-SA 3.0, source
- Columbine: Python (Peter Rühr), CC BY 3.0, source
- Nazareth Iris: Zachi Evenor, CC BY 2.0, source
- Sweet iris: Pamwik, CC BY-SA 4.0, 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
- Arabian jasmine: Taken by Fanghong, CC BY-SA 3.0, source
- Confederate jasmine: Scott Zona, CC BY 2.0, source
- Jonquil: Cillas, CC BY-SA 4.0, source
- Monoï oil: Verodemortillet, CC BY-SA 4.0, source
- Sasanqua camellia: KENPEI, CC BY-SA 3.0, source
- Illyrian iris: Motohiro Sunouchi, CC BY 4.0, source
- Garden hyacinth: Rasbak, CC BY-SA 3.0, source
- Cabbage rose: Nadiatalent, CC BY-SA 3.0, source
- Sweet mock orange: No machine-readable author provided. Rainer Bielefeld assumed (based o, Public domain, source