Lime Cake
Note Profile
About
A baked citrus dessert: lime zest and juice over a buttery sponge. Tart and green at the top, sweet and milky underneath.
Scent Profile
Lime cake smells like a buttery sponge with lime zest and juice baked into it, tart and green on top. The citrus is muted compared to fresh-zested lime, because baking flattens its sharp edge. A sweet, sugary cake body runs underneath, milky and buttery from the crumb. A clear tartness cuts through the sweetness, the same tart note a key lime dessert carries.
ScentWheel
Read off the wheel, not a label applied to the note.
ScentArt
Origin
Lime cake is not a raw material. Nobody distils it and no supplier publishes a datasheet for it. It is a fantasy accord named after a food, built from lime oil or a lime reconstruction over a sponge base of vanillin, ethyl maltol and soft lactones. Parfumo files the term under three of its own note categories at once, Cake, Lime and Pastry, which is how a compound name behaves rather than a material. Parfumo records 8 perfumes using it, first in 2009 and last in 2024, and IFF composed one of them.
Usage in Perfumery
Used to put a citrus lift on a gourmand without turning it into a cologne. The perfumes that carry it do not agree on where it belongs. Sean John Empress puts it in the top with cranberry, mandarin and starfruit. DKNY Sweet Delicious Tart Key Lime puts it in the heart with ginger, neroli and basil. Eclectic Collections Aperitif puts it in the base with oakmoss, cedar, sandalwood and vetiver. Parfumo's own aggregate says it runs through the whole fragrance.
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Perfumes featuring Lime Cake
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