Ingredients · Sweet · Made in a lab

Turkish delight

A sweet cannot be extracted; the note stands for cubes of sugar-and-starch jelly scented with rosewater and dusted with icing sugar.

What it is

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

Known in

Khair Pistachio (Paris Corner, 2023)

Worth knowing

Its Turkish name, lokum, comes from Arabic words meaning morsel and mouthful; in English it was once called lumps of delight.