Cheesecake

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A gourmand dessert accord. Thick cream-cheese dairy over a toasted graham-cracker base, sweetened with vanilla and brown sugar, with a tang that keeps it off a plain milk note.

Scent Profile

Cheesecake smells of thick cream cheese first, dense and dairy rather than watery. A sweet vanilla and brown-sugar note runs right behind it. Underneath sits a toasted, nutty graham-cracker crust. A light tang of sourness cuts through the sweetness, the edge that keeps it from reading as a plain cake.

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Breadthmedium

EnvelopeBase · ~18h lasting

Family Sweet & Gourmand

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Origin

Not an extraction. Cheesecake is a compounded accord sold by candle and flavour suppliers as a finished blend. Community Candle Supply describes it as capturing 'the irresistible aroma of a freshly baked New York-style cheesecake' and publishes its own pyramid: 'Top notes: Brown Sugar', 'Middle notes: Graham Cracker', 'Bottom: Vanilla'. The dairy half has an analytical basis: a 2023 study of processed cream cheese models found that 'fresh cream is one of the main drivers of the aroma of processed cream cheeses', driven by 'octa-3,5-dien-2-one and octane-2,3-dione'.

Usage in Perfumery

A base for other gourmands more often than a soloist. Two suppliers report the same commercial fact independently. Community Candle Supply's customer: 'Great blender. I sell almost no straight cheesecake, but this has been a very good seller when blended with fruit scents.' Indigo Fragrance: 'Mix with strawberry, cherry, chocolate etc. to come up with endless combinations of cheesecake fragrances.' Attested 13 times on Fragrantica and absent from the other note list.