Ok I've got the bottle now (couldn't get it before because it was in the nursery ensuite and didn't want to risk waking baby). *having a good sniff* It's not a fragrance of something edible it smells like a shampoo... but it does have a vanilla undercurrent... on the ingredients list it says: tea tree, lavendar, rosemary which are there for tonic properties but would make it smell the way it does too... it's a complex smell but lovely when you smell it in hair