Who doesn't like a good gourmand fragrance?! But gourmands can be tricky...if you are on a diet. They can either make you crave more sweets, or help you substitute the earge to eat something delicious by providing something nice to smell instead -- it depends on your personality.
Gourmand fragrances are extremely popular today, but compared to other fragrance styles, they haven't been around that much. Many believe the gourmand fragrance that started it all was Thierry Mugler's Angel, which launched in 1992. With prominent notes of cotton candy, chocolate, caramel, coconut, and a plethora of other fruits and some flowers, it wowed the public with its sweet and bold fragrance profile. Today, 32 years later, gourmands have blossomed into a fragrance family full of twists and turns, from obvious chocolate, marshmallow, and honey-dominant fragrances, to savory concoctions with bread, sticky rice, and vegetable notes. And while we enjoy good old gourmand compositions, we prefer to be surprised by something weird. Masterpieces that will question your own opinions, doubting if you could pull them off, just to lure you in and make you fall in love with them after a couple of wearings. We present a couple of our favorite weirdos!
Milano Fragranze - Basilica
Basilica is one of the most surprising and unusual gourmand fragrances.
It combines very prominent thyme and rosemary notes with incense, labdanum, and...milk! Like if you were eating zaatar bread and drinking a warm cup of milk in the middle of a church. Very strange and definitely doesn't sound like something you would want to smell like, yet somehow it works....and you keep coming back for more.
Profumo di Firenze - Fior di Pane
What is love?
It's home, a warm hug, freshly baked bread, and a pair of eyes looking at you from across your dining table in the morning.
All of this you will find in Fior di Pane with its bread note combined with velvety iris, violet, and tonka bean. It will remind you of vintage fragrances, but the extra sweetness and very prominent bread notes make it ultra-modern. It is cocooning, enveloping and so comforting!
Teo Cabanel - Je Ne Sais Quoi
Love the rice note in fragrances? While this note seems to be increasing in popularity, there's only one true rice bomb out there -- Teo Cabanel's Je Ne Sai Quoi. It is strong, unapologetic and unmistakably rice-dominant. Rice is combined with matcha tea and mate, which add more unusual tones. Violet leaf and sandalwood round up the composition and make it wearable.
So cozy and very unusual. The rice king!
Baruti - Perverso
Looking for a nuclear fragrance to
get you through the freezing winter weather? You have found it! Baruti's Perverso is the strongest of them all!
You need to love hazelnut, rum, tobacco, and cacao...but if you do...this will become your go-to for the winter. But be careful, once you spray it, your coat will smell like Perverso for a month.
Etat libred'Orange - Remarkable People
Remarkable People is one of our top choices from the brand. It has a strong curry tree note, but the combination of black pepper, grapefruit, and champagne makes it very sparkly.
It is a happy fragrance and reminds us of a great daytime party or an outside wedding in the sun and light breeze. But...in the distance, you can smell something amazing cooking and that smell draws you in and makes you look across the fence to the neighbour's yard.
Have you tried any of these fragrances? What are your favorite gourmands? Any weird ones you particularly like? Let us know!