Dandelion

About Dandelion

Dandelion is a green floral note inspired by the yellow flower heads, toothed leaves, and grassy stems of common dandelions. The plant group itself is taxonomically complex; Kew treats it within Taraxacum sect. Taraxacum. A perfume note listing does not establish a natural dandelion extract, so the note is best understood as a reconstructed meadow and plant impression unless a manufacturer states otherwise.

Scent Profile

The profile can combine cut grass, young-leaf bitterness, faint yellow-flower sweetness, and the moist air of an open field. It is less conventionally floral than jasmine or rose and softer than a forceful galbanum green. Its value lies in making greenery feel spontaneous, low-growing, and sunlit rather than polished.

Use in Perfumery

Dandelion can give a top accord the atmosphere of spring or early summer grassland. It helps basil, blackcurrant bud, and galbanum read as one continuous green surface, then eases into jasmine, cyclamen, white musk, woods, and amber. The note adds naturalistic freshness without requiring the perfume to become sharply herbal or bitter. A note name records an intended olfactory effect; it does not necessarily declare that one raw material appears unchanged in the formula. The exact balance remains formula-specific, and perceived sweetness, greenness, diffusion, and persistence can change with dosage and surrounding materials. Unless the supplier or brand publishes the information, no botanical species, extraction route, chemical structure, or manufacturing process should be inferred from the name.