Tuberose Absolute

What Tuberose Absolute smells like

Tuberose absolute is heady, creamy and narcotic: a white floral with sunny, coconut-like creaminess, green, spicy and animalic facets, and a cool, medicinal-green edge. A perfumer quoted in a raw-materials book links that medicinal edge to methyl salicylate and methyl benzoate; lactones such as jasmine lactone give its creamy, tropical side and indole its warm, animalic one. A trade supplier lists creamy floral, green, medicinal, with a coconut and solar facet and sweet balsamic undertones; one producer describes a waxy, slightly rubbery drydown.

Leading note

Creamy, narcotic white floral

Clear facets

Coconut, lactonic

Supporting facets

Medicinal-green, indolic

Faint facets

Rubbery

Character

Heady, creamy, narcotic, rich

• white floral
• creamy
• narcotic
• buttery
• green

What makes Tuberose Absolute distinctive

Cream and cool medicine together: coconut-like lactones with a wintergreen-green sharpness — the most voluptuous and the strangest of the white flowers.

How Tuberose Absolute is used

Used in rich white-floral fine fragrance; it is among the most expensive natural absolutes.

Typical role: backbone (used in large proportions as a structural material of an accord).

How Tuberose Absolute differs from similar materials

Methyl Benzoate*

A perfumer links tuberose's medicinal edge to methyl benzoate and methyl salicylate; the absolute adds cream, coconut and indole. (compared directly by a cited source)

Jasmine Absolute (Grandiflorum)

Jasmine is fruitier and more indolic; tuberose is creamier and more narcotic, with coconut and a medicinal-green edge.

Jasmine Lactone

Jasmine lactone, reported in tuberose, is the creamy peach-apricot petal weight alone; the absolute adds methyl salicylate, methyl benzoate, indole and a heady sweetness.

Tuberolide

Tuberolide is the lactone of tuberose on its own, coconut and waxy; the absolute adds the cool, green-medicinal side.

An asterisk marks a difference that a cited source states directly. The others compare the published descriptions of each material. Smell varies with grade, supplier and dilution; compare them side by side on blotters before substituting one for another.

Formulation considerations

Very costly and powerful; colour and composition vary, so obtain the supplier's documentation.

Identity and classification

Type

Absolute

Origin

Natural

Odour family

Floral / Gourmand

Note position

Heart note

Physical form at room temperature

Liquid

Botanical source

Agave amica (Medik.) Thiede & Govaerts

CAS number

8024-05-3

The CAS number was checked on 19 October 2026 against a PubChem substance record that gives it for this material. A natural material is a mixture, so it has no single formula; its composition varies with origin and processing.

Safety and compliance

This page is general information, not a safety assessment or a specification. Confirm identity, composition, IFRA status and allergen content from your supplier's documents for the lot you hold.

Materials it works with

• Jasmine Absolute (Grandiflorum)

  Absolute · Floral / Animalic — jasmine, floral, indolic, fruity

• gamma-Nonalactone (Aldehyde C-18)

  Aroma chemical · Gourmand / Fruity — coconut, creamy, sweet, fatty

• Benzyl Salicylate

  Aroma chemical · Floral / Powdery — balsamic, floral, faint, sweet

• Orange Flower Absolute

  Absolute · Floral / Animalic — orange blossom, honeyed, indolic, floral

• Ylang Ylang Oil

  Essential oil · Floral / Spicy — floral, creamy, sweet, banana

• Methyl Benzoate

  Aroma chemical · Floral / Fruity — sweet, floral, fruity, medicinal

Tuberose Absolute is also suggested as a partner on the pages for cis-3-Hexenyl Tiglate, delta-Dodecalactone, Frangipani Absolute, Jasmine Lactone, Tuberolide and Wintergreen Oil.

Used in formulas and accords

Used in 3 published formulas

Tuberose Absolute is an ingredient in 3 perfume formulas in the Formula & Accord Library.

RUŌOD House Originals

Original compositions by RUŌOD House.

• Gardenia Milk

  RUŌOD House Original

• Night Jasmine Foundry

  RUŌOD House Creation

• Tuberose Under Neon

  RUŌOD House Original

Further reading

• White Floral Accords: Jasmine, Tuberose and Orange Blossom

  How jasmine, tuberose, orange blossom, gardenia and ylang-ylang accords are built — benzyl acetate, Hedione, indole, methyl anthranilate — and their pitfalls.

• Perfume Materials by Odor Family: A Formulator's Palette Map

  Which materials build each odor family — citrus, floral, woody, amber, musk and more — their usual roles, what to watch for, and links to each in depth.

Questions about Tuberose Absolute

Sources

• PubChem — substance 135274545, checked 19 October 2026.
• The Good Scents Company — tuberose absolute — odour database.
• Premiere Peau — Tuberose absolute — published perfumery reference.
• Nez magazine — tuberose (raw-materials series) — published perfumery reference.
• Olfactory profile: the RUŌOD Lab team's synthesis of the published descriptions above, reviewed 26 October 2026. Evidence: more than one published description. Classification and the short description: revision 1. Descriptions of odour are judgement, not measurement.