Flowers for perfume and scent
Grown for their oil: rose, jasmine, tuberose, ylang-ylang.
Camellia
Evergreen shrubs and trees with showy blooms, best known for tea and garden flowers
🇨🇳 China and 6 more · Garden flower
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
Sasanqua camelliaCamellia sasanqua
An evergreen shrub with winter flowers and fragrant petals, native to southern Japan
🇯🇵 Japan and 1 more · Flowering shrub
Golden wattleAcacia pycnantha
Australia's national flower, with fluffy golden blooms and sickle-shaped phyllodes
🇦🇺 Australia 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.
- Camellia: junichiro aoyama, CC BY 2.0, source
- Arabian jasmine: Taken by Fanghong, CC BY-SA 3.0, source
- Monoï oil: Verodemortillet, CC BY-SA 4.0, source
- Sasanqua camellia: KENPEI, CC BY-SA 3.0, source
- Golden wattle: Melburnian, CC BY-SA 3.0, source