Purple flowers are not only beautiful to admire with your eyes, but many are also a wonder to enjoy with your nose, too! Here we’ll take you through 20 of the most fragrant purple flowers.
What Makes Flowers Fragrant?
Every type of flower – even different cultivars of the same species – has a completely unique fragrance. The scent of flowers comes from thousands of various chemical compounds contained in a flower’s essential oils.
Between 500 and 600 species of violets belong to the genus, Viola. Most violets have pretty heart-shaped leaves and flowers that resemble small faces with bilateral symmetry.
Hyacinths grow natively from Northern Bulgaria to Northern Israel, making them winter hardy in zones 4 through 8. Early spring bloomers, the first wafts of their sweet fragrance mark the beginning of spring for many.