Tuberose

What it is

Rarely the flower on its own. The absolute is too expensive and too narrow to carry a fragrance, so the accord is built up with jasmine, orange blossom, coconut lactones and a green rubbery note.

What it smells like

Large and creamy to the point of being impossible to ignore, with that rubbery streak doing most of the work of making it read as tuberose rather than as a white floral in general. It is the accord least likely to be worn by accident.

How strongly it is worn

The average strength this accord is listed at, where 100 means it dominates the fragrance.

65 / 100

What builds it

How much more often than the catalogue average. 1.0x would be chance, so these are the things that genuinely travel with it rather than the things that are simply common.

Accords it sits beside

Same measure, with its own family filtered out. Saying woody turns up with oud is a restatement, not a finding.

When it is worn

Against the average fragrance here. The line marks that average, so a bar past it means this is worn in that season or setting more than most.

Houses that use it most

Counted across the fragrances here, which reflects what we cover as much as what a house makes.

Gucci (10), Carolina Herrera (8), Giorgio Armani (6), Givenchy (6), Creed (5), Kilian (5).