Sweet & Gourmand

Nutty

Almond, hazelnut, praline and marzipan

nutty 136 notes 273 materials 6 anchors

What it smells like

Benzaldehyde and its relatives: almond essence, amaretto, cherry stone. These sit between the sweet and the faintly medicinal. In small amounts the facet reads as marzipan. In large amounts it reads as cough syrup.

Where it stops

Nutty overlaps Coffee where both turn roasted, and Vanilla where both turn dessert. It keeps a dry, kernel-like bitterness of its own.

Smells most like

toasted almond - and in the same register, peanut, marzipan.

Notes that load on it

Notes from our catalogue whose position on this facet is 0.40 or higher, strongest first. A note is not filed under one facet: it carries a value on all 34 at once, and these are the ones where this axis is doing real work.

Materials that carry it

Real substances, each keyed by its CAS registry number, that an external perfumery vocabulary publishes with a term meaning this facet outright. This is the layer that makes a facet checkable against something outside our own database.

Materials carrying this facet, with registry number, source terms and regulatory status
Material CAS Terms Status
pyrazine, 2-ethoxymethyl- CAS 65504-94-1 almond, hazelnut, nut skin, nutty
pyrazine, methoxymethyl- CAS 63450-30-6 hazelnut, nut skin, nutty
2-acetylpyrrole CAS 1072-83-9 nut skin, nutty, walnut
2-acetylthiophene CAS 88-15-3 hazelnut, nutty, walnut
2,3-dimethylpyrazine CAS 5910-89-4 nut skin, nutty, walnut
2,3,5-trimethylpyrazine CAS 14667-55-1 hazelnut, nut skin, nutty
2-hepten-4-one, 5-methyl- CAS 81925-81-7 hazelnut, nut skin, nutty
4,4,6-trimethyloxan-2-one CAS 71566-51-3 nut skin, nutty, walnut
3-methyl-2-cyclohexen-1-one CAS 1193-18-6 almond, nutty, walnut
2-(methylsulfanylmethyl)pyrazine CAS 67952-65-2 almond, hazelnut, nutty
2-ethyl-3,5-dimethylpyrazine;3-ethyl-2,5-dimethylpyrazine CAS 55031-15-7 hazelnut, nut skin, nutty
pyrazine CAS 290-37-9 hazelnut, nutty
thialdine CAS 638-17-5 hazelnut, nutty
acetophenone CAS 98-86-2 almond, nutty
benzaldehyde CAS 100-52-7 almond, nutty Declarable IFRA
butyrophenone CAS 495-40-9 hazelnut, walnut
acetylpyrazine CAS 22047-25-2 hazelnut, nutty
benzyl tiglate CAS 37526-88-8 almond, nutty
geranyl crotonate CAS 56172-46-4 almond, nutty
benzaldehyde dimethyl acetal CAS 1125-88-8 almond, nutty
fema 4394 CAS 20662-84-4 nut skin, nutty
zinc4802621 CAS 67633-97-0 hazelnut, nutty
2-acetylfuran CAS 1192-62-7 almond, nutty
akos015897950 CAS 342405-34-9 almond, nutty
2,4-heptadienol CAS 62488-55-5 almond, nutty
2-methylanisole CAS 578-58-5 nutty, walnut
2-acetylthiazole CAS 24295-03-2 hazelnut, nutty
2-methylpyrazine CAS 109-08-0 nut skin, nutty
2-propylpyrazine CAS 18138-03-9 hazelnut, nutty
3-methyl-2-butenal CAS 107-86-8 almond, nutty

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Reading the two flags

Declarable means the substance appears in Annex III of the EU Cosmetics Regulation, so it has to be named on the ingredient list once it passes a concentration threshold. IFRA means an IFRA Standard restricts or prohibits its use. Both are facts about the substance, not about any fragrance: a perfume can contain a declarable material below the threshold and never print it, and a restricted material used within its limit is used correctly.

The source also supplies no common name for a large share of materials, so those display as a bare registry number and are ranked last. They are kept because they are real evidence: dropping them would make the vocabulary look better described than it is.

Anchor terms

A facet on its own is just a word we chose. An anchor is what makes it checkable: a term in an external, independently maintained vocabulary of odour descriptions, built for perfumery materials rather than for us. The material list above is drawn from the direct terms only, because a partial term corroborates too weakly to stand as evidence on its own.

Direct Terms that mean this facet outright
  • almond
  • hazelnut
  • nut skin
  • nutty
  • nutty, walnut etc.
  • walnut
Partial Terms that lean this way but also load elsewhere
  • praline

The rest of Sweet & Gourmand

The other facets in this family. A note can load on any of them at the same time as this one, so they are neighbours rather than alternatives.

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