Heliotrope

With its fragrant clusters of small, white or reddish-purple flowers, the flowering plant “Heliotrope Peruvianum” is known as the “plant that turns its flowers and leaves to the sun.” Originating in Peru and first introduced in Europe only 200 years ago, the odor profile is a warm delicate powdery floral with vanilla and marzipan notes and a trace of spicy licorice. Famously, butterflies cannot resist its smell! Real Heliotrope absolute, obtained by extraction or enfleurage, is often replicated by Heliotropin, an aroma chemical used as early as 1906 in Jacques Guerlain’s Apres L’Ondee.