Popcorn

Ingredients · Sweet · Made in a lab

Popcorn

A snack cannot be distilled; the accord suggests the buttery, toasty smell of freshly popped corn.

What it is
A food or a drink, not something extracted: perfumers build its smell from other materials.
How perfumers build it
Known in
Bonbon Caramel Crunch (Viktor&Rolf, 2026)
Worth knowing
Kernels left unpopped at the bottom of the pan are called 'old maids' in the popcorn trade: they hold too little moisture to build the steam that bursts them.

Named by the house in 1 of the 1282 perfumes read so far