Fragrant Funnel - Clitocybe fragrans

A small slender funnel, with a smooth, pale cream or buff cap with a darker centre, whitish when dry, and pale cream decurrent gills.   It has a pleasant, sweet aniseed smell. 

Some other funnels also have an aniseed smell

smell

Photograph top-down, in side view and underneath to show gills, note habitat and substrate; note smell

grassland and woodland

Late summer to early winter.

Widespread and common (Kibby, Vol. 2, 2020)

Fairly frequent in Leicestershire and Rutland.

https://www.first-nature.com/fungi/clitocybe-fragrans.php

Kibby (Vol. 2, 2020) states that it may be a species complex, as yet unresolved.