Sour Cream
Note Profile
About
Sour cream is dairy cream fermented with lactic acid bacteria until it thickens and tartens. It smells of two things at once: a soft buttery dairy fat and a clean acid tang. Neither half dominates the other by much. It is milkier than yoghurt and looser than cream cheese.
Scent Profile
Sour Cream smells of soft, buttery dairy fat and a clean, acid tang at once, neither one dominating the other. It is milkier than yoghurt and looser than cream cheese. A faint nutty note runs underneath, the same one found in the flavour of sour cream.
ScentWheel
Read off the wheel, not a label applied to the note.
ScentArt
Materials That Can Make This Note
Perfumers can build Sour Cream from materials such as:
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2,3-butanedione buttery · caramellic · creamy
Smell words come from published sources.
A given perfume with this note may use some of these, or something else.
Origin
Cream cultured with lactic acid bacteria. Britannica puts its consistency 'between that of heavy cream and that of cream cheese'. The tang is lactic acid produced by the bacteria, with smaller amounts of acetic, formic, propionic and pyruvic acid. The buttery half is diacetyl, measured as 2,3-butanedione in a 32-sample study in the Journal of Dairy Science.
Usage in Perfumery
A gourmand dairy note. It is not a fragrance material sold by any supplier under this name. Perfumers reach it by pairing a lactonic butter or milk accord with an acid facet, and the result reads as the savoury end of the dairy family rather than the dessert end.
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