Sweet & Gourmand

Boozy

Rum, cognac, wine and fermentation

boozy 56 notes 192 materials 7 anchors

What it smells like

The lift of alcohol over the depth of something aged in a barrel. Boozy notes carry a volatile sharpness at the top and a sticky, oxidised sweetness underneath. That is why they read as fresh and decadent at once.

Where it stops

Boozy is fermented sweetness. Fruity is fresh sweetness. Rum raisin has crossed the line. Plum has not.

Smells most like

whisky - and in the same register, liquor, moonshine.

Notes that load on it

Notes from our catalogue whose position on this facet is 0.40 or higher, strongest first. A note is not filed under one facet: it carries a value on all 34 at once, and these are the ones where this axis is doing real work.

Materials that carry it

Real substances, each keyed by its CAS registry number, that an external perfumery vocabulary publishes with a term meaning this facet outright. This is the layer that makes a facet checkable against something outside our own database.

Materials carrying this facet, with registry number, source terms and regulatory status
Material CAS Terms Status
ethyl formate CAS 109-94-4 alcoholic, cognac, winey
methyl acetate CAS 79-20-9 cognac, rummy, winey
propionaldehyde CAS 123-38-6 alcoholic, cognac, winey
ethyl heptanoate CAS 106-30-9 cognac, rummy, winey
2-methylpropyl but-2-enoate CAS 589-66-2 alcoholic, cognac, rummy
heptyl acetate CAS 112-06-1 rummy, winey
allyl hexanoate CAS 123-68-2 cognac, rummy
butyl hexanoate CAS 626-82-4 cognac, winey
isoamyl alcohol CAS 123-51-3 alcoholic, cognac
isoamyl laurate CAS 6309-51-9 alcoholic, winey
decyl propionate CAS 5454-19-3 cognac, rummy
ethyl propionate CAS 105-37-3 rummy, winey
heptyl decanoate CAS 60160-17-0 cognac, winey
pentyl decanoate CAS 5933-87-9 cognac, winey
pentyl octanoate CAS 638-25-5 cognac, winey
propyl octanoate CAS 624-13-5 cognac, winey
ethyl isobutyrate CAS 97-62-1 alcoholic, rummy
propyl heptanoate CAS 7778-87-2 cognac, winey
geranyl heptanoate CAS 73019-15-5 cognac, winey
phenethyl octanoate CAS 5457-70-5 cognac, winey
tetrahydrofurfuryl acetate CAS 637-64-9 cognac, rummy
3-hexanol CAS 623-37-0 alcoholic, rummy
2-pentanol CAS 6032-29-7 alcoholic, winey
2-methyl-1-butanol CAS 137-32-6 alcoholic, winey
ethyl but-2-enoate CAS 10544-63-5 cognac, rummy
3-methyl-1-pentanol CAS 589-35-5 cognac, winey
ethyl (E)-hex-2-enoate CAS 27829-72-7 rummy, winey
1-butoxy-1-ethoxyethane CAS 57006-87-8 rummy, winey
trans-2-hexenyl valerate CAS 56922-74-8 cognac, winey
2-methylbutyl isovalerate CAS 2445-77-4 cognac, winey

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Reading the two flags

Declarable means the substance appears in Annex III of the EU Cosmetics Regulation, so it has to be named on the ingredient list once it passes a concentration threshold. IFRA means an IFRA Standard restricts or prohibits its use. Both are facts about the substance, not about any fragrance: a perfume can contain a declarable material below the threshold and never print it, and a restricted material used within its limit is used correctly.

The source also supplies no common name for a large share of materials, so those display as a bare registry number and are ranked last. They are kept because they are real evidence: dropping them would make the vocabulary look better described than it is.

Anchor terms

A facet on its own is just a word we chose. An anchor is what makes it checkable: a term in an external, independently maintained vocabulary of odour descriptions, built for perfumery materials rather than for us. The material list above is drawn from the direct terms only, because a partial term corroborates too weakly to stand as evidence on its own.

Direct Terms that mean this facet outright
  • alcoholic
  • boozy
  • cognac
  • oak wood,cognac
  • rum
  • rummy
  • winey
Partial Terms that lean this way but also load elsewhere
  • fermented
  • fermented, rotten fruit

The rest of Sweet & Gourmand

The other facets in this family. A note can load on any of them at the same time as this one, so they are neighbours rather than alternatives.

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