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Muguet
Muguet: lily of the valley: a fresh, green, dewy floral that the flower itself does not yield as an oil.
On record here, the word is carried by Diorissimo. Each carrier says who uses the word and on what evidence: a source, the trade’s convention or the house’s own reading.
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The record
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- Term
- muguet
perfumery convention
the trade’s shared vocabulary; no single source
the trade’s shared vocabulary; the word as the records and sources use it
confidence B
- Family
- floral
perfumery convention
Classification of 1. top notes: a) citrus, b) aldehydic, c) fruity, d) green and e) herbaceous/herbal, 2. heart notes: a) floral light, b) floral green, c) floral fresh, d), floral fruity, e) floral heavy and f) floral woody and 3. bottom notes: a) aromatic, b) balsamic, c) moss/leather/animalic, d) musk, e) amber and f) wood.
ISO-2 · Stepanyuk A, Kirschning A · read 2026-09-30
the family name as the published classification the review gives (top, heart and bottom notes) spells it
confidence B
- Definition
- Lily of the valley: a fresh, green, dewy floral that the flower itself does not yield as an oil.
house interpretation
the house’s own reading, labelled as such
the house’s own definition, written for this vocabulary
confidence C
- Also written
- Solinote Muguet
as used
the house’s own reading, labelled as such
the words the carriers below use for this term; each carrier names its own source
confidence B
- Carried by
- Diorissimo (Dior, 1956) (as used: “Solinote Muguet”)
documented
Diorissimo DIOR 1956 EDT Floral Solinote Muguet Edmond Roudnitska
OSMO-1 · Osmothèque, Conservatoire international des parfums · read 2026-09-30
the Osmothèque’s family and sub-family for this fragrance: a classification (a perfumery convention), not a measurement of its smell
confidence A
- Diorissimo (Dior, 1956) (as used: “Solinote Muguet”)
Sources
- ISO-2 · Stepanyuk A, Kirschning A. Synthetic terpenoids in the world of fragrances: Iso E Super® is the showcase. Beilstein J Org Chem. 2019;15:2590–2602. doi.org/10.3762/bjoc.15.252 · read 2026-09-30 · CC BY 4.0
- OSMO-1 · Osmothèque, Conservatoire international des parfums. Collection Osmothèque, juin 2015 (PDF list: name, house, launch year, concentration, family, sub-family, perfumers). www.osmotheque.fr/wp-content/uploads/2016/04/Col… · read 2026-09-30 · no reuse licence stated; quoted row by row, not filed
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this record as data: /data/descriptor/muguet.json · version 1 · updated 2026-09-30 · confidence B
