Brown sugar

As you’d imagine, brown sugar adds sweetness to our perfumes in just the same way as it does to cereals, cakes, candies.  Sugar was once a precious commodity, a delicacy.  Now, as we know, it’s in countless foods, and most of us have a love-hate relationship with the stuff.  But perfume-wise, sugar’s star is in the ascendant in line with the boom in gourmand compositions, adding almost a touch of ‘booziness’.  Great with vanilla. (Just like in baking.)  But with zero calories…

Smell brown sugar in:

Penhaligon’s Equinox Bloom

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