As appealing to the eyes as they may be, flowers also offer us a wide variety of scents and fragrances. Imagine the decorated fragrance of the wind as it passes through fields of thick floral growth. The scent – carried by the breeze, passes through your cheek, tickles your nose, and whispers secrets of delight as it combs through your hair. That sensation, delight, and simple blithe is what is extracted from flowers. The bottling process that follows the extraction immortalizes the fragrance in the form of perfumes and other scented products.

It’s a wonderful thing – how every kind of flower has its own distinct color, shape and size. That’s why it’s not very surprising to know that every flower has its own scent. And just as beauty is relative to the eyes of the beholder, so is scent. In this article, you’ll be reading about my Top 10 Flower Scents. This list that I made is comprised of flowers whose scents are commonly used because of their popularity and overall quality. Let’s begin.

Lilies – Toothpaste, vanilla spice, and cloves blended together with a little citrus-y scent have been sometimes used to describe the scent of lilies (pictured above). It can be described as minty or cool menthol-y.

Gardenias – Gardenias have this scent that can be described as… “sweet”. Like the other flowers in this list, gardenias blend very well with other fragrances.

Daisies – Although it can be generally described as “scentless”, it really isn’t scentless at all, of course. I can say that it’s just really mild – like fresh linen.

Lavender – Some people would describe it as even “smoky” – but of course they’re not implying that it smells like smoke. Lavender has this thick, mysterious and heavy

Orange Blossoms –Would you be surprised if I told you that it smells a bit like oranges? Well it’s very citrus-y and the combination of cheer and romance somewhere between the lines of scent makes it a favorite ingredient.

Bergamots – It may be close to oranges in resemblance, but believe it or not, pure bergamot fragrance is close to lemons. Again, it has that cheerful and fresh citrus-y essence.

Violets – Though violet flowers have hardly any scent when sniffed, the essence of the very fragrance of it makes up excellent perfumes. It’s hard to describe since it’s very mysterious – more mysterious than lavenders.

Carnation – Carnations are “spicy.” It’s quite different from the “minty-ness” of lilies, although carnations can sometimes be depicted as “candy” in the sense that they mint a sweet-spicy aroma.

Jasmine – Along with roses, jasmines are the most used floral fragrances in the industry of perfume-making. Perhaps the scent is the sweetness of a fruit that is yet to be discovered. That’s the closest I can describe it.

Roses – One of the most popular of them all, and in the same level of greatness as jasmines, roses have the description that I figure out most good floral scents have – sweet. It’s unfathomable how exactly a scent can be “sweet,” but it’s not harmless to use your imagination.

Like the peculiarity of every shade of color, the pitch of every sound, the temperature of every wind, and the taste of every food, flowers have scents that are peculiar to themselves. The 10 I gave you is according to the likings of this perceiver, but remember that there are thousands of flowers out there. All of them have a scent that is uniquely peculiar. All of them are good scents in their own way.