Peach Cream

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Peach cream is a gourmand accord, not a material. Nobody sells a base under this name. It is built from two lactones: gamma-undecalactone for the peach, and gamma-dodecalactone pushed toward warm milk for the cream. Vanilla sits under both. Against plain peach it is heavier on dairy and quieter on the fresh juicy top.

Scent Profile

Peach Cream smells of ripe peach wrapped in cream rather than bitten straight from the fruit, rich and creamy with a fatty, lactonic softness. A warm milk and vanilla layer sits underneath, quieter and less juicy than plain peach. A faint coconut sweetness and a touch of almond and powder round it out.

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Breadthmedium

EnvelopeHeart · ~8h lasting

Family Sweet & Gourmand, Fruity

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Materials That Can Make This Note

Perfumers can build Peach Cream from materials such as:

Gamma-dodecalactone peach · fatty · musky

Smell words come from published sources.

A given perfume with this note may use some of these, or something else.

Origin

Both halves are synthetic and both are lactones. Gamma-undecalactone (CAS 104-67-6), sold for decades under the trade misnomer Aldehyde C-14, is described by Scentspiracy as "a powerful fruity-lactonic profile characterized by rich peach and apricot notes" with "distinct creamy, fatty, and coconut nuances". Gamma-dodecalactone is the larger ring, and the same supplier, citing Arctander (1969), says the extra carbons shift it "from the coconut-like freshness of delta-lactones toward a richer, waxy-creamy peach character". Its listed use is "gourmand/dairy accords (0.1-1 %) for warm-milk nuances with heliotropin or vanillin". No fragrance house publishes a captive base called Peach Cream.

Usage in Perfumery

Fragrantica prints it in 10 perfumes and Parfumo records 1 placement from 1 brand. Perfumers use it where a peach needs to read as dessert rather than fruit. PerfumeStars places it "as a heart or base, lending smoothness and warmth". The same lactone that builds it made Mitsouko's peach, so the material is old even though the accord name is recent.