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Gourmand

A style of edible-smelling perfume built from food-flavor molecules rather than a single source.

What it is

A classic blend perfumers build from several materials.

How perfumers build it

Ethyl maltol (spun sugar)Vanillin (vanilla)Coumarin (new-mown hay)PatchouliHeliotropin (heliotrope)

Known in

Angel (Thierry Mugler, 1992)

Worth knowing

Angel, generally called the first modern gourmand, once outsold Chanel No. 5 in France.

Named by the house in 5 of the 1080 perfumes read so far

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