Baklava

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Baklava is a gourmand accord built on three things: honey syrup, roasted pistachio, and buttery baked phyllo. Orange blossom water threads through it and warm spice sits underneath. It is a composed accord, and no material is extracted from the pastry.

Scent Profile

Baklava smells of warm honey syrup poured over roasted pistachio and buttery, flaky pastry. It reads as an extremely sweet, syrupy dessert, with a nutty, praline-like centre. Warm spice gives it an edge, and orange blossom threads a white floral note through the sweetness. Butter shows both as a milky dairy softness and a creamy, woody warmth underneath.

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Breadthmedium

EnvelopeBase · ~16h lasting

Family Sweet & Gourmand

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Origin

Composed, not extracted. Fragrance-oil products named baklava build it from honey, vanilla, nut and pastry materials. The dessert itself is layered filo brushed with butter, filled with chopped pistachio or walnut, baked, then soaked in hot sugar or honey syrup scented with orange blossom. Perfumology's published pyramid for its baklava puts sweet orange, bergamot, cherry, almond and pistachio on top, neroli and a 'Baklava Accord' in the heart, and honey, vanilla, patchouli and musk in the base.

Usage in Perfumery

A Middle Eastern gourmand note. It anchors dessert accords that need nut and honey rather than chocolate or caramel, and the orange-blossom thread is what separates it from a Western pastry note. It works under amber, benzoin and vanilla, and beside pistachio, almond and rose.