Dandelion Butter is a floral fragrance that launched in 2025 and was created by Laura Oberwetter. It was inspired by every nostalgic and evocative aspect of the American midwest. It takes its name from a classic schoolchildren's game that goes back centuries. A plucked dandelion is held under someone's chin as they're asked, "Do you like butter?", as they turn their face to the sky to see if the flower casts a yellow glow on their chin. In some versions, the head of the flower is rubbed into the chin ("Chin Up, Buttercup!"), leaving a bright yellow streak that indicates, however silly the idea, that the bearer of the mark has an obvious love of butter. It's the kind of whimsically illogical tradition that survives countless generations because it doesn't quite make sense- except, perhaps, in the wonderfully playful and boundlessly curious world of childhood. Drawing from this amusement, Dandelion Butter is itself playful- bright, fresh, and imbued with naïveté. Bright, green dandelion stalks and warm yellow florals give off a vibrant pop, evoking an a realistic portrait of summertime, with a sprinkling of dusty pollen to complete the portrait. Meanwhile, a creamy, salty butter note adds a delectable warmth that feels like sunlight itself, calling to your younger self to come outside and enjoy a perfect day. Dandelion Butter features notes of pollen, dandelion greens, yellow dandelion, snapped stem, milky sap, salted butter and dandelion-stained chin. It is an eau de parfum, edp.
Fragrantica: "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"
Fragrantica: "Years of a strained relationship have admittedly soured my perception of my grandmother, but sometimes I am forced to remember that, while she may have given my inheritance to someone on the internet claiming to be Bret Michaels, she was also once in her twenties with a baby on each hip, once a teenager in her wedding dress, once a little girl without a mother who still wanted to be pretty. I expected Clue’s Dandelion Butter to vaguely, playfully suggest my own childhood, the memories I have of neighborhood girls in their bike helmets pulling dandelions out of the sidewalk and showing me the way to eat them. There *is* a powdery tone to it like crisp little petals drying the inside of your mouth, but it’s one that conjures the scented baby powder that Grammy was still using liberally in 2008 out of a bottle a decade older than me. That isn’t a bad thing. After all, you can’t exactly use baby powder anymore, can you? In the wood paneling and slick linoleum of her bathroom, I would paw through cabinets and drawers to try on beauty products that had been hoarded away since the 1960s. My fascination with fragrance was born in those 10 tiny glass bottles of “poppy”, “violet”, “rose” - each a variation on the musky floral punchiness so popular in previous generations. I’m not trying to imply that Dandelion Butter smells outdated or actually like a grandma perfume, far from it. This fragrance is young and fresh and green and intimate and full of hope, creamed butter, and sugar. Grammy never actually wore perfume, never noticed the lowering levels of Guerlain in the cabinets or the fact that I must have smelled like I had just finished a shift at the cosmetic counter at seven years old. So maybe she had just forgotten about the bottles, but at times I think that maybe she had been saving them for the life she thought she deserved. A dandelion, too, grows through concrete and grows through the bleach-hot summer only to dissolve into wishes."
