Field notes / 01
What does datura flower smell like?
A datura perfume accord can suggest the rich sweetness of night-scented white flowers, with creamy petals and a softer green edge. It is an interpretation rather than a universal formula: the exact balance varies with the surrounding flowers, fruit and musks.
Field notes / 02
The material behind the impression
Datura is a flowering plant with trumpet-shaped blooms. In perfume its scent is generally reconstructed as an accord rather than supplied as a conventional flower extract. The plant is toxic: this educational portrait is not advice to harvest, handle or make perfume from it.
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Its place in the composition
In Parisian Desire, datura forms part of the heart alongside white peony, jasmine sambac, Chinese jasmine and orange blossom. It gives the berry-and-citrus opening a fuller floral centre before the woody, musky base emerges.





