Hollywood screen legend Natalie Wood may have long been dead, but to her daughter, Natasha Gregson Wagner, her gardenia scent still lingers on with memories of her mother.

"My mother always wore Jungle Gardenia," Natasha Gregson Wagner said in an interview with People magazine.

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Wagner has created a new fragrance dedicated to her late mother.

She revealed that Barbara Stanwyck gave her mom a bottle of Jungle Gardenia on the set of The Wide Wore Boots. Since then, Wood always used the fragrance, even gifting her friends with bottles of those until she died.

"My sister [Courtney Wagner] and I always knew when our mom was home because we could smell her," she said.

Natasha, 45, is Wood's daughter with her second husband, Richard Gregson.

"I want not just for my daughter but also for generations to come, to know my mom's legacy and her work and her beauty, and what she was like as a mom," the mom of three said.

Born Natalia Zakharenko in 1938, Wood was already a performer as early as four and broke into Hollywood at the age of eight with her starring role in the perennial Christmas favorite 'Miracle on 34th Street' (1947). Before she turned 25, she already snagged three Oscar nominations for her performances in 'Rebel Without a Cause' (1955), 'Splendor in the Grass' (1961) and 'Love with the Proper Stranger' (1963). Her other significant films include 'The Searchers' (1956), 'West Side Story' (1961), 'Gypsy' (1962) and  'Bob & Carol & Ted & Alice' (1969).

Wood took a hiatus in the 1970s to focus on raising her children. She married Robert Wagner from 1969 to 1972, before tying the knot with Richard Gregson.  

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