Thyme Blossom
Note Profile
About
The flower of thyme, not the leaf. Soft and floral with a lemon edge and a honey sweetness, where the leaf is sharp and medicinal.
Scent Profile
Floral leads on the one source that describes the flower directly: where the leaf is the 'bass note', the flower is the 'high note', with a 'softer, more floral quality'. Honeyed is the oldest and most specific claim here. Grieve's herbal records that 'Bees are especially fond of the Thyme blossoms, from which they extract much honey', and the same food source finds 'a mild honey-like sweetness' in the flower itself. Aromatic_herbal stays high because this is still thyme. No source says the thymol character disappears, only that it softens, and zeroing it would assert an absence nobody claimed. Citrus is the 'distinct citrus undertones... hints of lemon' named in the same sentence. Green is the flowering top the bloom is picked from, carried down from the parent rather than claimed on its own. Fresh_spice is the 'touch of pepper' the same source offers as a varietal maybe.
ScentWheel
Read off the wheel, not a label applied to the note.
Origin
The bloom of Thymus, the same plant that gives the thyme note. No supplier was found selling a flower-only extract. ScenTree's white thyme oil is a whole-plant distillation timed to the bloom, and Premiere Peau's thyme absolute is made from 'flowering tops and leaves' together. So a perfume that prints this term is naming a part of the plant, not a material with its own trade sheet.
Usage in Perfumery
A softening qualifier on thyme. It is used where a perfumer wants the herb's identity without the phenolic bite, and it appears in modern aromatic and herbal-floral compositions. Attested twice on Parfumo across two brands.
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