Dandelion Butter

Ever since spraying my sample my nose has been practically glued to my wrist. Something I love about (my experience anyway) with all of Clue's scents is that they are straightforward in that every note listed is clearly articulated and present. Behind that, it feels like there is infinite depth to the story and memories they unlock. So it's hard to write about wearing a Clue scent without bringing very specific history into it, and that's beautiful! I was born in Ohio and my family on both sides are from the Midwest. I spent countless days, especially in the summer, sitting, lying, and rolling around on my grandparents' lawn. What summer is - what this season looks and feels and smells like in America - is permanently set to the Midwest in my mind. The creamy, rich grassiness of Dandelion Butter immediately brought those days back. There isn't the sense of the green notes happening separate from the butter, the pollen. Clue is always a strong sense memory happening all at once. I've never played the Dandelion Butter (or other names it goes by) game where you hold up a dandelion to someone's chin and rub it in if there's no yellow reflection, but when I told my mom the name of this scent she said, "Oh! Like the game!" So that's three generations of Midwestern memories already. I call my very blonde toddler a buzza bee, a silly pet name that evolved from who knows what - his honey colored hair at birth, the bee rattle he used to have, and so many other moments of nonsense baby talk. I've called him a dandelion as his hair lightened and grew into an impossibly soft mop. The pollen and skin notes of Dandelion Butter are, therefore, connected to him for me. Your experience and story will be different but I bet Dandelion Butter will still smell amazing on you.

One thing I forget and highly recommend is the first few sprays of a new bottle, do them outside. The reason being that whatever scent you are about to smell, that perfume thats kind of already been "pumped" into the sprayer will not bloom the way the rest of the scent will. So on the first sprays of this fragrance all I got was 100% stem. By the next day this had greatly improved. The best way to describe this is if your grocery store had the butter section right next to the floral department. In the best possible way. Initially you are hit with this sunny dandelion note. If you haven't smelled on in a while its like a gently sweet floral smell that leans more green than powdery like many other flowers. It's extremely light and fleeting just like Dandelions are. It then transitions into a milky sap scent. Lactonic green is the only way to describe it. And then it hits. Cold. Butter. Not room temperature, not melted, cold butter. Slightly salted. The way that it combines with the pollen and skin notes make it smell as though you were churning butter in your garden on a spring day and the oils captured all the scents onto your body. It's extremely intimate, not a beast mode fragrance. But it will keep you smelling yourself all day. It's a fantastic skin scent because it doens't smell like perfume, it smells like you living your best life outside in the sun.

I have been eagerly awaiting "Dandelion Butter | Clue Perfumery" out of curiosity to how it would smell. This is such a beautifully made, realistic, freshly picked Dandelion scent. The artistic skill that must have gone into creating this blows me away! "Dandelion Butter | Clue Perfumery" opens with a kind of fresh, sweet grassy/floral scent. It takes me back to being a young child. It’s an early spring morning, the sun is shining and I’m lying on the grass. I can smell the earth and that morning dew type of scent rising from the grass and flowers. This is definitely a fragrance that invokes happy memories and relaxing, meditative vibes. The scent progresses as it would as if you were there in the moment, picking dandelions, scoring the stems and making dandelion chains. I can smell the freshly snapped green stem, with a hint of earthiness and the smell of the pollen. There’s still a little sweetness in the background, but overall this is a very green, hyper realistic scent. The far dry down actually reminds me of Angelique Noir by Guerlain. I don’t get any milk or butter, which I’m not bothered about. I think they’ve done an incredible job to create something that smells so spot on. This is such a unique little creative masterpiece! This is something I will have to add to my collection because of the feelings and memories it brings with it. 10/10

This reminds me of impossible summers that only live in nostalgic blurs swept up by the first turnings of spring winds. It's bittersweet, intimate, and deeply personal. I'm trying to roll down hills the fastest, throwing my whole body into it, ending up with bruises and micro-cuts from the blades of grass I steamrolled. Cartwheels add to the growing dizzying spell and I look up at endless blue skies, dotted with rolling clouds. Grass-stained blue jeans and time spent collapsed in the shade of dancing trees. I find the dandelions dancing too. I blow and blow, making a wish I'd soon forget. It's quite sweaty at first if I'm being honest. Sappy and green, I can almost feel the hollow dandelion stem between my fingers and the sticky residue seeping out. This forms a beautiful personal scent bubble that lasts quite longer for such a delicate scent and lasts all day on clothes. I wouldn't say this is butter per se, but succinctly lactonic; it coats the whole fragrance and adds a silky body to it that makes this unlike anything else in this genre. I oftentimes find that most green-stemy perfume are too abrasive for my liking, so I'm happy to have finally found one that works. Not ecstatic about the price and size, but I'd rather have it than go without it.

First, it smells ALIVE. Not floral in the decorative sense, but vegetal, green, and faintly feral. The snapped stem and milky sap give you that bitter-white latex note like the smell you get when you break a weed in half and your fingers stick together. It conjures grass on bare knees for me, the faint metallic sweetness of skin, sun-warmed dirt, and the careless intimacy of being outside too long. The pollen note adds a dry, dusty warmth that bridges the green bitterness of the leaves with the yellow brightness of the flower, giving the perfume a quiet hum rather than a bloom. Then there’s the salted butter, which is where the perfume becomes quietly subversive. Butter doesn’t sweeten as much as it softens for me. Salt pulls the green notes closer to skin, turning something weedy and photorealistic into something intimate and human. It introduces a lactonic comfort without thankfully turning gourmand. For me, it’s an exceptionally safe blind buy and I genuinely struggle to see how anyone could find this scent profile objectionable. It's right up there with Carnal Flower and Fathom V in terms of photorealism. My only complaint is the 30 ml bottle and retail cost of $140 USD. I wish it was available in a 100 ml bottle <$200.

Clue is a brand that I've been desperate to get my hands on and I was finally able to get their discovery set. starting with Dandelion Butter I didn't have a very high expectations considering my previous experiences with perfumes that have butter notes, but this was a surprising and welcoming experience into buttery territory within fragrance. the opening smells how unsalted butter tastes to me, it's lactonic, creamy and only just slightly sweet, but at this stage the most prominent part is the realistic green, stemmy and grassy dandelion elements in here. they complement each other in such a delicious and playful way it's somehow flirty as well. during the dry down the greenery dials down a lot developing into a warm and slightly powdery feel which would usually be a turn off, but in here it's done in such an irresistible way that I just kept smelling my wrist during the day. while I don't think this is going into my collection it's still an impressive and interesting perfume, it feels like they somehow captured sunlight in a bottle. it lasted around 6 hours on me before turning into a skin scent and while it might be more feminine leaning this could go well on anyone. 8/10 🌼

A really pleasant green "narrative" scent from Clue. I agree with other comments about the notes being relatively simple, but I think the distinctiveness of its smell makes it appealing. I imagine tromping through a field rife with dandelions, snapping stems as I gather flowers for my floral jelly. It is a beautiful spring day with nary a cloud in the sky. The slightest bit of salty butter from my lunch is still on my hands, and it mingles with the pollen and sap of the picked flowers as i lift a bloom to my nose, and perhaps it leaves a smudge of yellow on my face. Like a perfect April day, this scent is gone too fast, and I am left missing it within maybe 2 hours. Yes, that butter note is barely there, but it is there, it's the supposed skin note I don't get. I love the bright yellow and green-ness of this scent, but it becomes maddeningly faint maddeningly quickly. Nevertheless, its dainty beauty made a quick favorite of mine.

Dandelion Butter holds a straightforward profile and delicious scent: Initial spritz is green, green, green. Fresh, watery, and vegetal - in the sense of rind and peel. Or in this case, stem and leaf. Solar notes bask throughout the opening. You're rubbing the flower between your fingers, staining them yellow and permeating your hands with a distinctive bitterness. Breaking apart the stems to make a daisy chain, it's milky and slightly sticky. All of these sensations follow you indoors after playing outside. As the fragrance melts into your skin the richness of the butter shines through. The butter at play is not salty and greasy, rather sweet and freshly churned, maybe best described as more cream-like. A beautiful concoction, brilliantly composed, and perfect sibling to Morel Map. This is for children with holistic grandmothers who questionably made them eat dandelions right out of the ground (me).

This scent reminds me of childhood, real childhood. Forget the French bebe in the white cotton dress toddling through a field of lavender. Instead, think of a grubby American kid rolling down a grass hill just to see if they can stain their pants green. Think of the kid who can’t stop exploring a loose tooth with their tongue, and who takes pleasure in the secret cloud of heat they make when they piss in the pool. This is a kid whose experience of the physical world is so direct, it’s bawdy. That’s the kind of pleasure I feel when I smell Dandelion Butter. The notes are straightforward. Fresh dandelions, crushed stems, fatty butter, and the tang of your own sweat. It’s not complicated or mysterious. But it’s addictive. It’s an invitation to go back to enjoying pleasure for pleasure’s sake. If it feels good, it IS good. Welcome to your inner child’s hedonist.

If you claim not to be getting longevity on this, I’m skeptical. I get consistent comments throughout my day and whiffs of myself just moving around. It definitely burns off its green aspects quickly, but the honeyed, buttery, and floral ones stick around. When I say “honeyed,” I don’t mean to say it smells like honey; I mean that it has a faint natural sweetness like a treat that has been honeyed! This is what gives it a pseudo-gourmand quality — the combination of fattiness and fragrant sweetness. If you’re thinking “cake,” you’re not even remotely in the ballpark. If you’re thinking “hot tea,” you’re a bit closer, but not quite. Have you ever had a boba tea with cheese foam though? That’s exactly the tone of this. Cooling, milky, smooth, fatty, floral, and fresh. A must-have for summer.

I actually totally wrote this off at first because I just sprayed it on a card as i was feeling a little overwhelmed with other scents on my skin On paper it came off very green, nice, crispy obvious dandelion with its sweet flowers and grassy stem. no salted butter though and i felt pretty confused as to how that could even work into this concoction. then I sprayed it on my skin and went about my business and noticed once it warmed up that i immediately smelled like salted butter. to the point that it made me hungry haha. i love rich salty butter so much, i bake a lot, and i could suddenly smell it clearly and it made me so happy :,) the forward greenness keeps it from being a weird thing to smell like, people just say I smell divine. went from a maybe to a full bottle real quick

Wow, this is so good. It's a very realistic green, stem/flower note, freshly picked! What I enjoy about the Clue fragrances is that they take an unusual note and mix it with something very warm and pleasant to make it wearable (for example: Warm Bulb has the dust note but mixed with warm vanilla, The Point smells ocean briney but with a sweet jasmine note). Makes them unique yet good smelling! This has that spicy green note but is blended well with the butter to make an addictive creamy note that's very comforting. Radiates off my skin a moderate amount. To the point that I can smell it around without sticking my nose into my arm. So I'd say at least arm's length. Lasts a while but not all day. But the scent is worth it! Very calming and pleasant for Spring and Summer.

the first few minutes of this is quite possibly the most special opening to a fragrance i have ever experienced. i have no idea how they bottled the smell of lying in the grass with pollen on your chin and dandelion sap on your fingers, but they did. the dry down loses a lot of that bright sappy greenness which breaks my heart just a little, but it hangs onto the milky green scent just enough for it to mesh beautifully with the creaminess that comes through, and it does balance it perfectly. on my skin it ends up sitting as a fresh, delicately creamy, and impossibly nostalgic and heart touching creation. the idealized image of childhood innocence and springtime warmth in the backyard. so so so very special

If you’ve across this fragrance searching to reconnect with childlike wonder, sun-dappled grass that has no care when you clock in or out, baking with loved ones and getting some salted butter on your freshly washed little hands...this is for you. Somehow nostalgic and modern at the same time, thanks to a laser-focused, super green opening that mellows into some creamy, hazy floral mids before a hint of salted popcorn jellybeans come in toward the end. Delicate but not weak, extremely wearable (more than I thought before buying), unique, and whimsical! What fun! My first blind buy, and what a winner—Clue is clearly one to watch (late to the party but happy to be here).

Dandelion Butter was truly a love at first sniff! I remember first smelling this at Merz Apothecary in Chicago, it was mid-fall and I made a pact to myself that I would purchase a bottle when spring was coming around the corner. And here I am now, several months later happier than ever with my Dandelion Butter. It's a stemmy, creamy, soft yellow floral concoction that dries down to the most luminous salty musk. There's something so comforting and familiar about this scent- like playing in a field of dandelions and clovers and then sitting on a picnic bench eating buttery popcorn. Very warm-weather friendly, unique but nonoffensive.

cutesy, creamy, and stemmy. i've never had a fragrance that simultaneously has a buttery element while also having very photorealistic green notes, but this one does both well. well balanced imo and very soft which i love as the months start getting warmer. it accomplishes 2 things i look for in a spring fragrance which are freshness and subtle sweetness. i think i want the full bottle. side note: my boyfriend told me this reminded him of pho and then 30 minutes later another good friend of mine hugged me and said i smelled so good. was it because i smelled like pho? i don't know, but i'll take it.

i consider this a inner child daytime scent. i describe it as a dandelion and cold butter smell. makes me feel both clean and scratch’s my love for lactonics. what every milky fig fragrance wished they had. as fun and whimsical i find this scent some of my friends have smelled it on me and have described it as a “rich person smell”. which doesn’t bother me lol. good longevity, but my pockets will cry if they never come out with any sizes bigger than 30 mls:(((. want to buy a full bottle for myself as a “once in awhile wear” but i know ill love it too much and run through it.

This is a foggy childhood summer memory in a bottle, and I'm kicking myself for not just getting a full bottle off the bat! It absolutely smells like a crushed dandelion (stem and all) and the butter element is dancing in the background but never moves into a sour or even truly lactonic territory. Something that seems to carry or conjoin the notes in the background reminds me of a lotion my mom would've worn in the late 90s. This is my first impression with Clue and I'm really impressed. Wish I could speak to longevity but I have a dabber and we know how those are, lol.

This scent is so freaking cute. Cute like when you're out on a summer day in a park and they've just cut the grass and you're eating a nice croissant and twirling a dandelion between your fingers, and there are a bunch of kids running around getting grass stains on their outfits and you're like "Oh my gosh, those kids are so cute. Was I that cute when I was a kid?" Very realistic dandelion green smell, mellowing into something more sweet and creamy with wear, but every so often, you do just get a puff of dandelion smell. Adore. Very hard to get a hold of!!!

Clean smooth green goodness that gets a dollop of sweetness from honey without any pissy notes. Its like your skin but better scent. Its light and airy. Doesn't really project but does have amazing longevity. I can still smell it 12 hours later. I put it on for work this am at 0700 and at 10pm can still gets wiffs of it especially on my clothes. Absolutely gorgeous full bottle worthy scent. Debaser is close in the opening but Debaser takes a hard left in the drydown and never really is comparable again. DB is much more decadent, airy and buttery.