Hothouse Flower
Hothouse Flower is a tribute to the lush, creamy scent of gardenia. A legendary hothouse flower that needs extra love and attention, gardenia is a flower that has always made a dramatic statement from Billie Holiday’s hair to French gentlemen’s boutonnières. Hothouse Flower is a gardenia “soliflore” (single flower) that is particularly green and aromatic with notes of galbanum, fig, cypress, absinthe and frankincense.
Perfumer
Ineke Rühland
Notes
Earl Grey tea, green foliage, cypress, gardenia, galbanum, fig, frankincense, guaiacwood, musk, Cashmeran
Fulfillment & Shipping
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| Order type | Shipping Method |
Cost |
| Sample-only Orders (including Sample Sets) | USPS Ground Advantage* | $5 |
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Standard Shipping (orders under $75) |
USPS Ground Advantage* or UPS Ground (depending on destination) | $10 |
| Free Shipping (orders $75 and over) |
USPS Ground Advantage* or UPS Ground (depending on destination) |
$0 |
| 3-Day Shipping | UPS 3-Day Service |
Variable |
*Ship times vary. All products ship from California, shipments can take up to 5 business days to the East Coast.
Returns
We do not accept returns of perfumes, simply because perfumes can't be resold once they've been opened and used. We encourage you to order samples before purchasing full bottles of perfume. And here's the good news — with every sample purchased, we'll send you a coupon code that allows you to redeem the cost of the sample and sample shipping if you buy a full bottle of the fragrance you tried (in other words, you get $10 off).
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Complimentary Samples
We provide complimentary samples with $75+ full bottle purchases. You may request up to 3 samples with any qualifying order. Please use the Order Note section on the Shopping Cart overlay to let us know which complimentary samples you would like. We'll try to provide the scents you've requested, but substitutions may occur if items are out of stock.
I love white florals, but it’s challenging to find one that doesn’t remind me of the neighbor mamma who, when it was her turn for carpool in 1979, doused herself in gardenia before pulling up to my house in her bathrobe and curlers, smoking a Virginia slim. That I still smelled of gardenia after school on her carpool days is the white floral mental yardstick I have in my head and I use it to judge all white florals mercilessly, if somewhat subconsciously! Hothouse Flower is NOT that gardenia scent! It has the beautiful white floral notes, but they are tempered with enough Other that the perfume is a very modern, not cloying, not clinging floral scent. With my chemistry, I find it just delightful and fresh. The sample came as part of the Ineke discovery set and I plan to purchase a whole bottle. It’s that good.