The subsection contains relatively small fragile species with a distinct and pleasant odor. They usually smell more or less of grated geranium leaves ( pelagonia ) or similar to the gall blotch , the alternating colored spit blotch or the ocher leaf blotch . The taste is more or less mild. The spore powder is variable in color between cream, ocher or yellow ( II - IV according to Romagnesi ). The deafblings are more or less yellow, but not gray.
Bon is the only systematic who defines the sub-section Odoratinae . For all others, the types of subsection are part of the taxon Puellarine , which at Romagnesi has the rank of a section, otherwise the rank of a subsection. Neither molecular DNA data nor the mycorrhizal anatomy support this delimitation, so that the definition of the taxon does not make much sense.
