Ingredients · Sweet · Made in a lab

Gingerbread

No biscuit can be distilled; the accord joins the spices of the recipe, ginger, cinnamon, clove and nutmeg, with vanilla.

What it is

A food or a drink, not something extracted: perfumers build its smell from other materials.

How perfumers build it

Ginger CO2 extractCinnamon bark oilClove bud oilNutmeg oilVanillin (vanilla)

Known in

Uomo Born in Roma Yellow Dream (Valentino, 2021)

Worth knowing

American Cookery, the first printed American cookbook, held seven different recipes for gingerbread.

Named by the house in 1 of the 1080 perfumes read so far

Uomo Born in Roma Yellow DreamValentino · “gingerbread accord”