Lactonic

What it smells like

The dairy-fat register, and a texture as much as a smell. Split out of creamy_woody in v2, because creamy_woody is santalol: a WOOD that has milkiness. 26 of 70 notes carrying it were using it as a milk substitute, butter and milk among them.

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.

• Peach Fruity Vanilla Heart · ~8h Botanical 2,097
• Condensed Milk Vanilla Base · ~24h Prepared 1
• Peach Aldehyde Fruity Vanilla Base · ~12h Botanical
• Ricotta Heart · ~5h Prepared 1
• Mascarpone Cheese Vanilla Base · ~14h Prepared
• Milk Tea Vanilla Tobacco & Hay Base · ~18h Prepared
• Peach Cream Fruity Vanilla Heart · ~8h Prepared
• Massoia Tropical Waxy-Fatty Vanilla Base · ~48h Botanical 12
• Butter Heart · ~6h Animal 128
• Cheesecake Vanilla Base · ~18h Prepared
• Cream Cheese Sour Heart · ~6h Prepared
• Papaya Blossom White Floral Waxy-Fatty Heart · ~4h Botanical
• Peach Skin Fruity Musk Heart · ~8h Botanical
• Milk Base · ~24h Animal 555
• Kulfi Vanilla Fresh Spice Nutty Base · ~18h Prepared 11
• Evaporated Milk Mineral Base · ~18h Botanical
• Goat's Milk Animalic Heart · ~6h Botanical
• Latte Macchiato Vanilla Coffee & Cacao Base · ~14h Prepared
• Figolide™ Green Heart · ~7h Molecule
• Sour Cream Sour Heart · ~5h Prepared

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.

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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.

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.

Keep going

• Sweet & Gourmand The family this facet belongs to, and the others in it
• The 34 facets What each one covers, where it stops, and the substances that carry it
• What we have measured The numbers behind the model, and what they do not prove