California Fragrant Nursery
Petals & Perfume
Rare, fragrant jasmines and gardenias, grown under the California sun — a digital catalog built around the scent you can almost reach through the screen.
Explore the catalogThe Collection
Three to begin with
Gift Wrapping
A living gift, tied by hand
Any plant in the catalog can be gift-wrapped for Mother's Day, party favors, and girls' get-togethers — hand-tied in blush ribbon and cream tissue, with a scent card so the gift speaks before it is unwrapped.
Notes & Nuance
A vocabulary for what you cannot smell
Because a screen carries no scent, we write the fragrance instead — in the language of perfume, broken into top, heart, and base. Here are the families you will meet.
Jasmine
indolic, heady, true white-flower
Gardenia
creamy, buttery, tuberose-adjacent
Night-blooming
narcotic, spicy, after-dark
Orange Blossom
neroli, honeyed, sun-warmed
Winter
a whisper of honey on warm afternoons
Grown in California
Danville mornings, inland warmth
Our nursery sits in Danville, in the sheltered Tri-Valley of California's East Bay — where warm summer days and cool evenings coax out the richest fragrances. We gather the jasmines that fill the Far East's summer air, so you don't have to research where to find them or pay to ship them across the country. Just a short drive, and the nostalgia comes home.
Our story →9
fragrant varieties
3
scent families
By hand
propagated, pruned, perfumed