This species has a warm yellow colour on the cap, which becomes golden brown with age. It often has dark brown appressed scales of universal veil on the cap.

C. olearioides is very similar, but differs by warm orange tinges with age, and no appressed scales. Furthermore the latter has more distinctly citriform and more ornamented spores.

This is the most frequent species of section Fulvi in Denmark.

This photo shows fairly robust specimens, and due to moist weather, scales on the cap are absent.