Vegetal Milk

Note Profile

Botanical

About

Vegetal milk is a generic plant-milk accord. It is the milky texture without the cow. No source names the plant, so read this vector as a wide guess at the shared body of soy, oat, nut and grain milks, not as a description of one material.

Scent Profile

Lactonic leads because that is the only thing the word milk can be doing here. It is held well below the published Milk note at 0.82 and below Condensed Milk at 0.92, because no source describes this material at all and a dairy-level creaminess would be an invention. Nutty and green are the plant half of the term, taken from what the published single-plant milks share: Soy Milk carries green and nutty, Oatmilk carries nutty, Walnut Milk carries nutty. A source-agnostic plant milk should hold both facets at a fraction of any one of them. Sweet_vanillic is the faint sweetness common to all of them. Tobacco_hay is the cereal edge of oat and spelt, clean_musk the skin-close carry, creamy_woody and powdery the texture. Tropical sits rather than zero because of the unconfirmed coconut reading of the Guillaume use, and it carries a 0.20 spread to say so.

ScentWheel

Breadthbroad

EnvelopeHeart · ~6h lasting

Family Sweet & Gourmand

Read off the wheel, not a label applied to the note.

Origin

Vegetal milk is a translation of the French 'lait vegetal', the collective term for any milk pressed or strained from a plant rather than an animal. No fragrance house sells a material under this name. The note is an accord a perfumer builds, usually from lactones for the creamy body and from cereal or nut materials for the rest. The two attested uses give no recipe. Pierre Guillaume used it in 17 Tubereuse Couture in 2006 and Olivier Durbano used it in Lapis-lazuli in 2016. Neither perfumer published what went into it. A CaFleureBon reader read the Durbano list and asked outright what plant milk smells like. The review did not answer.

Usage in Perfumery

2 Parfumo placements across 2 brands, none on Fragrantica. Parfumo files the note under Milk and records it in the heart. The two compositions use it for opposite ends. In 17 Tubereuse Couture it softens tuberose, and secondary commentary reads it there as coconut-creamy. That reading could not be confirmed from a fetchable source. In Lapis-lazuli it sits with thyme, spelt and iris, where it works as a pale cereal texture rather than a gourmand sweetener. Both uses treat it as body, not as a headline.