Cestrum nocturnum (night-blooming jasmine) has a heady, narcotic white-floral character — intensely sweet and jasmine-like with green, slightly indolic and tropical facets. Over time a honeyed, almost fruity nuance emerges, with a soft creamy floral drydown.AI · claude-opus-4-7
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Perfume and Flavor Materials of Natural Origin, page 108.
Judging from the extremely heavy isoeugenol-like, faintly carnation-like, woody-warm, yet strongly floral odor, the essential oil of Cestrum Nocturnum could find use as a new note in many modern warm-spicy or aldehydic-floral perfume types.
The essential oil of Cestrum Nocturnum could find use as a new note in many modern warm-spicy or aldehydic-floral perfume types.
'Attars' of Cestrum nocturnum flowers are prepared in India by co-distillation with sandalwood oil or by distilling the essential oil of Cestrum nocturnum into a receiver with sandalwood oil or with a vegetable (fixed) oil.