Maison Mataha · Vincent Ricord

Escapade Gourmande

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Caramelized black sugar over vanilla and tonka bean, resting on soft musk with a touch of Siam benzoin.

Maison Mataha says

You’ll smell Black Sugar Accord, Vanilla Absolute, Tonka Bean Absolute and Musk Accord.

More from Maison Mataha’s description

It also mentions Siam benzoin, Black sugar, Caramelised sugar, Vanilla, Tonka bean and Musk.

The house’s page

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When you spray ittop notes

As it settlesheart notes

What staysdry-down notes

Escapade Gourmande’s scent picture, a draft: black sugar, vanilla, tonka (coumarin), musk, benzoin, farnesol (linden blossom) drawn so far; dashed outlines where nothing is drawn yet

When you spray ittop notes

Escapade Gourmande, when you spray it: Black sugar

As it settlesheart notes

Escapade Gourmande, as it settles: Vanilla, Tonka (coumarin)

What staysdry-down notes

Escapade Gourmande, what stays: Musk, Benzoin, Farnesol (linden blossom)

What’s inside it

What the label names

2 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 florals1 sweet

3 more lines on the label, not there for the smell

Not for the smell3

The label, as printed on the house’s page

Our match of the notes

Shares its notes

NebrasLattafa · shares Black Sugar Accord, vanilla, tonka and cashmere knit$53.99 for 100 ml · about a quarter of Escapade Gourmande’s $190
Hawas ElixirRasasi · shares vanilla, tonka, cashmere knit and benzoin
Khamrah QahwaLattafa · shares vanilla, tonka, cashmere knit and benzoin$49.99 for 100 ml · about a quarter of Escapade Gourmande’s $190

Matched by the notes each house names. A shared note is not a promise they smell alike.