Note

Sugar

Plain sugar has little odor, but a sugar note suggests sweet crystals, syrup, or the warm edge of melted sugar. It usually forms part of a sweet accord, softening fruits and flowers or reinforcing vanilla in the base.

In 40 perfumes. Usually found in the drydown.

Opening
26%
Heart
22%
Drydown
52%
Found in Malak, Historic Sahara and Delicious Bouquet

Most popular with sugar

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

Often paired with

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

How it reads

Sweet and gourmand above all. Reaches for vanilla and lactonic far more often than the catalogue as a whole, and rarely for woody.

  • sweet
  • gourmand
  • vanilla
  • fruity
  • citrus
  • woody
  • lactonic
  • white floral