Tart and sweet. Delicious mixed with lots of sugar and baked into pies and tarts; delicious when used to add a fresh, sharp edge to fruity florals and sheer aquatics, in perfumery. It pairs beautifully with rich flowery notes like jasmine, tuberose and rose. This long-stalked plant has been used for centuries for medicinal purposes, as well as in cooking – but with a little caution: the stalks may be edible, but the leaves are poisonous. Not the best-known fruity note – but rhubarb’s popularity is on the up, from all we’ve seen lately.
According to predictions, rhubarb is set to become even more of a key ingredient in future fragrance trends…
Smell rhubarb in:
Aedes de Venustus Eau de Parfum
Byredo La Tulipe
DSquared Potion for Women
Jo Malone London English Pear & Freesia
Jo Malone London Pomegranate Noir
Miller Harris Le Pamplemousse
Miss Sixty Miss Sixty
Nina Ricci Ricci Ricci
Ulrich Lang Anvers 2
