Sweet and gourmand notes

325 notes

Sweet and gourmand notes smell edible: vanilla, caramel, chocolate, coffee, almond and honey. They make a perfume feel warm, soft and comforting. This list is the notes that lean on sweet more than on any other scent family.

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Botanical

110 notes
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Plants, and what is pressed, distilled or extracted straight from them - peel, petal, resin, root, wood, leaf.

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Prepared

175 notes
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Materials that only exist because something was done to them: roasted, burnt, tanned, fermented, cured, cooked.

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Molecule

24 notes
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Single aroma chemicals, named as themselves. Some occur in nature and some do not; all of them behave predictably.

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Abstract

9 notes
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Notes that name a sensation rather than a substance. Nothing is distilled to make them - they are an effect the perfumer builds.

Animal

7 notes
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Materials of animal origin, and the modern reconstructions that stand in for them.