Note

Cotton Candy

Cotton candy has a light cooked-sugar smell, often recalled as sweet, airy and faintly caramelized. Its perfume accord supplies a sugary heart and lasting sweetness, especially with berries, vanilla and soft musks.

In 71 perfumes. Usually found in the drydown.

Opening
26%
Heart
35%
Drydown
39%
Found in Sweet Flowers, Petra Viola and Ameerat Al Arab Sugar Crown

Most popular with cotton candy

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

Often paired with

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

How it reads

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

  • sweet
  • gourmand
  • woody
  • vanilla
  • fruity
  • musky
  • caramel
  • citrus