Lydia Broom

Note Profile

Botanical

About

Lydia Broom is a dry, bracken-like note with a honeyed nuance under it. It is the drier and duller relative of broom. Where broom leads with honey, this leads with dry vegetation and keeps the honey as a secondary tone.

Scent Profile

Tobacco_hay leads because the fragrance description of the note puts 'dry, bracken-like' first, and dried fern reads as hay in this vocabulary. Honeyed is the 'honey nuanced' part of the same description. It is a nuance in the source's own word, so it sits below the lead, and that is the single largest difference from published broom, where honeyed and leads everything. Floral covers the flowers themselves, supported by the note being filed under Flowers and by LoveToKnow's description of the genus as sweetly scented and reminiscent of sweet peas. Green is the living part of the bracken reading, the fern rather than the hay. Dry_woody is the woody-stemmed shrub character that the word 'dry' carries alongside the bracken. Nothing else is scored, because nothing else was described.

ScentWheel

Breadthbroad

EnvelopeHeart · ~5h lasting

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

Read off the wheel, not a label applied to the note.

Origin

Named for Genista lydia, a low rockery shrub of the pea family that carries masses of small yellow flowers. It is not the same plant as the broom already published here, which is Spartium junceum and Cytisus scoparius. No absolute or supplier material exists for Genista lydia, unlike Spartium junceum broom absolute, so the perfumery note is an impression rather than an extract.

Usage in Perfumery

Used as a heart note where broom would be too sweet. It gives a dry hay-and-fern backdrop with a honey edge, and it suits fougere and green-floral structures rather than the honeyed-solar ones broom absolute is used for.