Ingredients · Sweet · Made in a lab
Madeleine
No cake can be distilled; the accord suggests a warm butter sponge with vanilla and almond.
- What it is
- A food or a drink, not something extracted: perfumers build its smell from other materials.
- Known in
- Replica Afternoon Delight (Maison Margiela, 2024)
- Worth knowing
- Marcel Proust's madeleine dipped in tea gave English the word 'Proustian'.
Named by the house in 1 of the 1080 perfumes read so far
