Lychee Praliné
Note Profile
About
A prepared gourmand accord. Caramelised nuts carry a cold, rose-tinged lychee fruit on top. Nobody sells it as one material. Perfumers build it by pairing a lychee note with a praline base.
Scent Profile
Lychee Praline is built on caramelised, toasted hazelnuts, warm and nutty-sweet, like nuts scraped from a copper pan. A cold, rose-tinged lychee fruit sits on top, more a modifier than the base itself. A coumarin, vanillic warmth and a lactone creaminess run through the praline in the drydown. The lychee itself reads as a rose-like floral, with a tropical finish.
ScentWheel
Read off the wheel, not a label applied to the note.
ScentArt
Origin
Not a raw material. Lychee praline is two separately sourced notes placed together in one composition. The praline half is an accord built on ethyl maltol, coumarin and lactones. The lychee half is built on cis-rose oxide with beta-damascenone behind it. Alkemia's Carmen 7 lists 'exotic lychees' and 'decadent french pralines' as two entries in the same note list, which is how the pairing is normally written.
Usage in Perfumery
A modern fruity-gourmand pairing. It sits in the heart and base of sweet fruity perfumes, where the lychee lifts a nut-and-caramel base that would otherwise read as flat confectionery. Attested on 2 Parfumo entries across 2 brands and 0 Fragrantica entries, so the term is real but uncommon.
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