Muguet describes the fragrance impression of lily of the valley, a fresh floral effect that is often airy, green, and springlike. Because the living flower is difficult to extract conventionally, the perfumer’s muguet is frequently an imaginative reconstruction. In poetry, it can therefore signify both innocence and invention: a bell-shaped bloom, a remembered spring, or a sweetness assembled from absence rather than gathered directly from the field.

Muguet is not usually a single natural extract; it is a reconstructed lily-of-the-valley effect because the flower yields little usable oil. Muguet accords combine airy floral, green, watery, and subtly rosy materials. They are common in clean, springlike fragrances and can provide freshness without the citrus character of a cologne.