The label describes an impression
A perfume can evoke leather without containing leather, or a sea breeze without containing seawater. Notes are part of the descriptive language of fragrance. They help you imagine a smell, but they do not tell you every material used to create it. Confusion begins when a vivid description is treated as a laboratory report.
An accord is a constructed relationship
An accord brings materials together into a coherent effect. The result may suggest an identifiable object, a flower or a more abstract atmosphere. It can also be used as a structural part of a larger composition. Knowing the intended effect does not tell you how the perfumer achieved it. Several different combinations can point toward a similar olfactory idea.
Natural materials do not remove the complexity
A botanical extract is itself a complex material, and extracts from the same named plant can differ. A rose oil is not a rose absolute. A refined fraction is not the same thing as its starting oil. Even when a brand identifies a natural material, that fact reveals only one part of a finished composition. It does not disclose the proportions or the interactions around it.
Read three kinds of information separately
A note description explains the intended scent experience. A product ingredient label serves a different purpose. Material-origin or sourcing statements provide another kind of information again. Each can be useful, but none should silently stand in for the others. Look for the specific evidence behind a specific claim rather than assuming that a poetic description establishes provenance.
A better way to use a note list
Use the notes as a starting hypothesis. Smell the fragrance, allow it to change, and ask which parts of the description help you understand what you perceive. If your experience differs, you do not have to force it into the advertised language. The most valuable description is one that improves observation rather than replacing it.