Floral

Fougassette

Note Profile

Natural

About

Fougassette is a bread-like gourmand note built around a slightly sweet baked dough character with orange flower water. It reads as edible and aromatic rather than purely floral or purely bakery-sweet.

Scent Profile

The scent is warm, bready, and lightly sweet, with a soft orange blossom facet that lifts the dough accord. It sits between pastry, bread crust, and floral water, giving a compact gourmand profile without heavy caramel or vanilla.

ScentWheel

Breadthfocused

Origin

Fougassette is an accord name derived from the Provençal bread fougasse, adapted in perfumery to suggest a sweet bread impression. In fragrance contexts it is an abstract note rather than a single raw material, typically representing a constructed blend of baked, floral, and soft sweet facets.

Usage in Perfumery

Perfumers would use fougassette in gourmand compositions to suggest bakery realism, softening the profile with a subtle floral accent. It can support accords built from vanilla, almond, tonka, citrus blossom, and other edible notes, usually in the heart or drydown rather than the volatile top.