Commodity · Christelle Laprade

Milk Expressive

Premium$$$, 3 of 5
Commodity asks $160 for 100 ml
100 ml$160

VersionEau de Parfum

Toasted sesame and cold milk over warm marshmallow, drying to smoked mahogany, tonka bean and benzoin.

Commodity says

You’ll smell Toasted Sesame, Warm Marshmallow, Cold Milk Accord, Mahogany Wood, Tonka Bean and benzoin.

More from Commodity’s description

It also mentions Cold Milk, Marshmallow, Mahogany, Firewood Accord, Smoked Mahogany Wood and Siam Benzoin.

The house’s page

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The drawn Milk Expressive bottle

When you spray ittop notes

As it settlesheart notes

What staysdry-down notes

Milk Expressive’s scent picture, a draft: sesame, warm marshmallow, cold milk, mahogany, tonka (coumarin), benzoin drawn so far; dashed outlines where nothing is drawn yet

When you spray ittop notes

Milk Expressive, when you spray it: Sesame, Pinene (pine needles)

As it settlesheart notes

Milk Expressive, as it settles: Warm marshmallow, Cold milk, Ylang-ylang, Eugenol (clove)

What staysdry-down notes

Milk Expressive, what stays: Mahogany, Tonka (coumarin), Benzoin, Patchouli, Peru balsam, Vanillin (vanilla)

What’s inside it

What Commodity names

Toasted SesameWarm Marshmallow (spun sugar)Cold Milk AccordMahogany WoodTonka BeanBenzoinMarshmallow

What the label names

9 scent ingredients on the label, familiar names first.

A label must name certain ingredients, most of them ones that can cause allergies; some houses print more. It is never the whole recipe.

1 herbs & lavender1 florals2 woods2 sweet1 amber & resins2 spices

Herbs & lavender1

Pinene (pine needles)

Florals1

Ylang-ylang oil

Woods2

Patchouli oilEbanol

Sweet2

Vanillin (vanilla)Coumarin (new-mown hay)

Amber & resins1

Peru balsam oil

Spices2

Eugenol (clove)beta-Caryophyllene
7 more lines on the label, not there for the smell

Not for the smell7

AlcoholWaterOctinoxate (a UV filter)BHT (keeps it fresh)Avobenzone (a UV filter)Octisalate (a UV filter)Benzyl benzoate

The label, as printed on the house’s page

Our match of the notes

Shares its notes

Velvet VioletDries Van Noten · shares sesame, tonka and benzoinabout $321 for 100 ml · about twice Milk Expressive’s $160
ZadigZadig & Voltaire · shares sesame and Cold Milk Accord$178 for 90 ml · about the same as Milk Expressive’s $160
EuphoriaCalvin Klein · shares Cold Milk Accord and mahogany$123 for 100 ml
See 2 more2 more share half its notes
Khair PistachioParis Corner · shares Warm Marshmallow, Cold Milk Accord and tonkaabout $23 for 100 ml · about a tenth of Milk Expressive’s $160
Escapade GourmandeMaison Mataha · shares Warm Marshmallow, tonka and benzoin$190 for 100 ml · about the same as Milk Expressive’s $160
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Matched by the notes each house names. A shared note is not a promise they smell alike.