Ingredients · Florals · Made in a lab

Dandelion

No dandelion extract is used in perfume; the house's notes are images of the plant: yellow flower, snapped stem, milky sap.

What it is

A flower that gives no oil worth extracting, so perfumers rebuild its smell from other materials.

What the real thing smells of

Carvone, not in Ingredients yetBenzaldehydeDill ether, not in Ingredients yetLimonene, not in Ingredients yet

Known in

Dandelion Butter (Clue, 2025)

Worth knowing

Researchers have made a CO2 extract of dandelion flowers for skin care; carvone was the main compound in its smell.

Named by the house in 1 of the 1080 perfumes read so far

Dandelion ButterClue · “Dandelion Greens”