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Q: Is Daisy natural or synthetic?

. Extraction: Not extracted. Common daisies produce no viable aromatic material. Fantasy accord..

FLOWERS / floral · fresh · green

Daisy

Category	FLOWERS
Subcategory	floral · fresh · green
Origin
Volatility	Heart Note
Botanical	Bellis perennis
Appearance	Pale yellow to amber liquid
Odor Strength	Medium
Producing Countries	Not commercially produced for perfumery. Bellis perennis grows wild across Europe, temperate Asia, and North America.
Pyramid	Heart

Green, fresh, and barely scented. Common daisies (Bellis perennis) have a faint, dewy, grass-green smell -- more meadow than flower.

Scent
The Full Story
Fun Fact
Extraction & Chemistry
In Perfumery

Scent

Green, dewy, and almost imperceptibly floral. Like lying face-down in a meadow of daisies -- the smell is not the flowers but the grass, the dew, the clean morning air, and a barely perceptible white-floral sweetness that you have to concentrate to catch. Innocent and effortless.

Evolution over time

Immediately

Green, dewy, faintly floral. Morning meadow freshness.

After a few hours

The dew fades. Soft, clean, green warmth.

After a few days

A faint, clean, green trace.

The Full Story

The common daisy (Bellis perennis) is a familiar wildflowers in the Northern Hemisphere, yet it has almost no detectable fragrance. The scent is extremely subtle: a green, dewy, grass-adjacent freshness that is more about the meadow environment than the flower itself.

In perfumery, daisy is a fantasy accord capturing this specific quality of innocent, understated, meadow freshness. It is not a bold floral -- it is the opposite: a whisper of green and white that suggests open fields, morning dew, and the simplest possible expression of spring.

Perfumers build the daisy accord using green-leaf materials (cis-3-hexenol), transparent white-floral elements at very low concentrations, dewy-fresh ozonic notes, and clean musks for the innocent, airy quality.

The note sits in the top-to-heart range, providing an effortless, natural freshness.

This note in Première Peau. Nuit Elastique · Rose Monotone. Sample all seven extraits in the Discovery Set.

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Did You Know?

Did you know?

The name daisy derives from the Old English daeges eage (day's eye), because the flower opens its petals at dawn and closes them at dusk. Bellis perennis is edible and was used medicinally in Europe for centuries -- its Latin name means "everlasting beauty."

Extraction & Chemistry

Extraction method: Not extracted. Common daisies produce no viable aromatic material. Fantasy accord.

Molecular Formula	Complex mixture (essential oil/extract)
CAS Number	84776-11-4
Botanical Name	Bellis perennis
IFRA Status	No known restrictions
Synonyms	common daisy, lawn daisy, English daisy
Physical Properties
Odor Strength	Medium
Appearance	Pale yellow to amber liquid

In Perfumery

Top-to-heart note in meadow, innocent-floral, and green-fresh compositions. Functions as a dewy, natural freshness element. Built from green-leaf alcohols, transparent white florals, ozonic materials, and clean musks.