The plate: lily of the valley
Lily of the valley

Ingredients · Florals · Made in a lab

Lily of the valley (muguet)

The tiny bells yield no usable oil; every muguet in perfume is rebuilt from synthetics.

What it is
A flower that gives no oil worth extracting, so perfumers rebuild its smell from other materials.
How perfumers build it
Known in
Diorissimo (Christian Dior, 1956)
Worth knowing
Its old backbone, Lilial, was banned in the EU in 2022, forcing muguet accords to be rebuilt.

Named by the house in 47 of the 1080 perfumes read so far