Dyer's Greenweed

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Dyer’s Greenweed (Genista tinctoria), also called woodwaxen, has a broom-like yellow-floral scent that is honeyed and pollen-rich, with hay/tonka and soft tobacco facets, a waxy-green bitterness, and faint almondy warmth evoking sunlit meadows and beeswaxed wood. In perfumery it is used sparingly (often via broom/genêt absolute) to deepen mimosa–narcissus accords, add rustic hay-honey glow to chypres, fougères, leathers, and tobacco themes, and to bridge sharp green top notes with floral hearts and woody bases.

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