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Q: Is Wildflowers natural or synthetic?

. Extraction: No single extraction. Wildflower accords are constructed by blending multiple floral isolates and synthetics..

FLOWERS / floral · green · sweet

Wildflowers

Category	FLOWERS
Subcategory	floral · green · sweet
Origin
Volatility	Heart Note
Botanical	N/A — olfactory accord (mixed wildflower bouquet)
Odor Strength	Medium
Producing Countries	Asia, Europe, North America
Pyramid	Heart

A diffuse, polyphonic floral that smells like crossing an unmowed meadow in June: clover, buttercup, vetch, and grass pollen in warm air, never one flower alone.

Scent
The Full Story
Fun Fact
Extraction & Chemistry
In Perfumery

Scent

Diffuse, warm, polyphonic. No single flower identifiable. Honey-sweet pollen, green grass, and faint floral qualities. Smells like distance: the kind of floral you notice walking through a field.

Evolution over time

Immediately

Warm pollen-sweet florals with green grass lift

After a few hours

Honeyed floral softness, less green, more ambient

After a few days

Faint sweet warmth, like dried flowers in a closed room

The Full Story

Wildflower is not a single ingredient but an accord concept: the blurred, composite floral scent of a meadow where dozens of species bloom simultaneously. No single flower dominates. The effect is panoramic rather than focused.

Perfumers reconstruct this by layering multiple simple florals at low concentrations: traces of linalool, phenylethyl alcohol, hydroxycitronellal, and Hedione, with green support from cis-3-hexenol.

In compositions, a wildflower accord functions as a heart element that adds naturalistic, outdoor floral character without the formality of a soliflore.

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Did You Know?

Did you know?

Bees perceive wildflower scent differently from humans. Many meadow flowers emit UV-fluorescent volatile guides that bees follow like runway lights, invisible and odorless to the human nose.

Extraction & Chemistry

Extraction method: No single extraction. Wildflower accords are constructed by blending multiple floral isolates and synthetics.

Molecular Formula	N/A — olfactory accord blending multiple floral notes
CAS Number	N/A — olfactory accord, not a single molecule
Botanical Name	N/A — olfactory accord (mixed wildflower bouquet)
IFRA Status	No known restrictions
Synonyms	FIELD FLOWERS · MEADOW FLOWERS
Physical Properties
Odor Strength	Medium

In Perfumery

Heart modifier that adds naturalistic outdoor florality. Built by layering multiple floral molecules below individual recognition thresholds, supported by green notes and honey-sweet phenylacetic acid.