Lydia Broom

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Lydia Broom is a dry, bracken-like note with a honeyed nuance under it. It is a perfumer's accord, not an extract. Fragrantica files it with the flowers. It sits close to broom, but leads with dry hay and fern where broom leads with honey.

Scent Profile

Lydia Broom smells dry and bracken-like first, closer to hay than to fresh growth. A honeyed sweetness sits under it and can come forward in a floral blend. The yellow flowers give a soft floral tone, and a green, herbal thread runs through the hay. A dry, woody edge stays underneath.

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EnvelopeHeart · ~5h lasting

Family Amber · Musk · Leather, Sweet & Gourmand, Floral

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Origin

Named for Genista lydia, the Lydian broom. It is a low shrub of the pea family from south-east Europe to Syria, with masses of small, bright yellow flowers in early summer. It is not the plant behind the broom already published here, which is Spartium junceum and Cytisus scoparius. No absolute or other commercial extract of Genista lydia exists, so the note is built as an accord.

Usage in Perfumery

A heart note in floral and green-floral perfumes. Goutal Grand Amour (1996) lists it as a middle note with mimosa, leather and jasmine. Premiere Peau places it in sunny, Mediterranean, green-floral compositions as a warm hay modifier.