Sweet and gourmand scent family

What holds it together

The youngest family in perfumery, since gourmand as a category barely predates 1992. Six facets run from the soft centre of vanilla out to the bitterness of cocoa, the kernel-dryness of almond, the ferment of rum, the waxy animal edge of honey, and the milky, creamy weight of dairy.

Notes strongest in Sweet & Gourmand

Strongest first. A note's family value is the highest of its member facets, not their average - averaging would let a note that is emphatically one thing and nothing else read as weak, which is the opposite of what the family is for.

• Vanillin Powdery Base · ~36h Molecule 30
• Ethylvanillin Powdery Base · ~30h Molecule
• Sugar Heart · ~4h Prepared 358
• Ultravanil™ Phenolic Smoky Base · ~48h Molecule 3
• Peach Fruity Heart · ~8h Botanical 3,227
• Whisky Dry Wood Base · ~20h Prepared 178
• Liquor Heart · ~5h Prepared 115
• Syrup Base · ~24h Prepared 18
• Condensed Milk Base · ~24h Prepared 8
• Decalepis Hamiltonii Base · ~18h Botanical 8
• Peanut Sulphurous Heart · ~5h Botanical 5
• Icing Pink Heart · ~5h Prepared 4
• Gummy Candies Fruity Heart · ~4h Prepared 1
• Peach Aldehyde Fruity Base · ~12h Molecule
• Vanilla Base · ~48h Botanical 17,077
• Frosting [Glacé] Powdery Heart · ~8h Prepared 9
• Moonshine Heart · ~4h Molecule
• Sugar Cookie Base · ~12h Prepared
• Caramel Base · ~48h Prepared 1,964
• Sesame Waxy-Fatty Base · ~48h Botanical 100

The facets in it

The facets are the coordinate system; the family is how it is read. Every one of these is measured separately, and a note carries a value on all of them at once.

The other families

Every other family gathers the same 34 facets a different way.

Keep going

• The 34 facets What each one covers, where it stops, and the substances that carry it
• The 10 families How the 34 are gathered, and why a family value is a max and not a mean
• How it is built The five layers, from CAS numbers up to the families a shopper browses