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