Note

Buttermilk

Buttermilk smells softly milky and distinctly tangy, with a cultured dairy sourness. In perfume, a reconstructed effect adds creamy tartness to gourmand hearts, balancing sweet fruit, pastry, or vanilla notes.

In 2 perfumes.

Found in Maple Pancakes and Glow Of Vanilla

Most popular with buttermilk

The best-known perfumes carrying it anywhere in the pyramid.

Often paired with

Notes that show up next to buttermilk more often than chance would predict.

Too few perfumes to say.

How it reads

Sweet and lactonic above all. Reaches for milky, gourmand and caramel far more often than the catalogue as a whole.

  • sweet
  • lactonic
  • milky
  • gourmand
  • woody
  • powdery
  • musky
  • vanilla