If your perfume tastes include the likes of buttery caramel, boozy fruit cocktails and anything else that may indulge your sweet tooth, you’re a gourmand lover. “Typically, gourmand perfumes include a rich base of warm and sweet ingredients like vanilla, caramel and tonka bean, which provide a luscious, dessert-like quality,” says Almira Armstrong, fragrance developer and founder of Lumira. “[Gourmands] are the kind of fragrances that make you want to sniff closer and almost take a bite,” adds Carlos Huber, fragrance developer and Arquiste founder. The year 2023 has marked the era of the modern gourmand, and that is largely thanks to PerfumeTok: a niche Internet community of fragrance lovers that’s rich with resources. Long gone are the days of cloying, sugary fragrances that smell like a lovestruck tween upon first spritz. Instead, these dessert-like scents are becoming more dynamic, layered with notes of smoky woods, bright fruits and romantic florals to create a balanced, multidimensional scent experience for both user and those surrounding. Ahead, find our fraghead-approved gourmands for every type of perfume lover, from cozy vanillas to lemony gin cocktails to syrupy florals. Spoiler alert: they’re all addicting in their own way, and they’re only going to grow in popularity for the new year.
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