Daphne odora Thunb. - Thymelaeaceae - winter daphne, Duftender Seidelbast, Duft-Seidelbast

Evergreen shrub, up to 1.50m high, native range not exactly known (China or Japan), widely cultivated; branches purplish red to purplish brown; leaves alternate, obovate or obovate-elliptic; inflorescences terminal, up to 12(-20)-flowered; flowers fragrant, calyx purplish red abaxially with pinkish red to white lobes, tube 6-10 mm; rarely fruiting, drupe scarlet-red, globose, ca. 8mm.
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https://npgsweb.ars-grin.gov/gringlobal/taxonomydetail.aspx?13276
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Daphne_odora

The major components of the pentane extract from Daphne odora flowers were alcohols like linalool (15.5%), citronellol (10.6%), nerol (1.8%), geraniol (3.0%) and farnesol (9.3%). Other major components were heptacosane (7.6%), nonacosane (1.1%), farnesyl acetate (2.1%), methyl linoleate (5.7%), nonanal (1.8%), farnesal (4%), nonanoic acid (1.2%) , and geranic acid (1.9%). Trace compounds were eg. β-ionone, rose oxide, and indole.
[Volatile components of Zinchoge flower (Daphne odora Thunb.)., Watanabe, I., Yanai, T., Awano, K.I., Kogami, K., Hayashi, K., Agricultural and Biological Chemistry, 47(3), 483-490, 1983]

„…especially rich and strong is the orange fragrance exhaled by the [white and] reddish purple stars of Daphne odora.“
[Lacey, Stephen. Scent in your garden. Frances Lincoln Limited, 1991, 168]

The headspace of Daphne odora flowers contained (R)-(-)-linalool (51.1%; 97.9%ee) with its strong floral note also known from tea and lavender.
[Analysis of enantiomeric ratios of aroma components in several flowers using a Chiramix column., Tamogami, S., Awano, K.I., Amaike, M., Takagi, Y., Kitahara, T., Flavour and fragrance journal, 19(1), 1-5, 2004]

3-Isobutyl-2-methoxypyrazine also occurs as an olfactorly relevant trace constituent in, for example, the scent of seed pots of Papaver somniferum, the leaf scents of ocimum basilicum, Ocimum sanctum, Ravenala madagascariensis, Piper novo-guinensis, and the flower scents of Daphne odorata, Cattley labiata, and Hyacinthus orientalis.
[Meaningful Scents around the World, R.Kaiser, 2006, 58; R.Kaiser internal Givaudan files]

Daphne odora, Hyogo, Japan CC BY 3.0, Author: Miya Wikimedia Commons