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Sweet fragrances

Sweet notes such as vanilla, tonka and caramel, with or without a distinct food association.

Scentorian assigns these categories for browsing. Fragrances can belong to several families; the house may describe them differently.

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1 Million Eau de Toilette

Rabanne — Riot police could use it in place of stun grenades, one reviewer proposed in 2013: a fixture of late-2000s nightclubs, candied orange and cinnamon on a sweet, leathery amber.

1 Million Elixir Parfum Intense

Rabanne — A tart apple that turns to sweet vanilla and rose, as one daily wearer describes it, with an almost cinnamon edge that another traces to davana; to a third it smells like the sexiest couple you know.

1 Million Lucky Eau de Toilette

Rabanne — Toasted hazelnut and honey meet a tangy plum and a grapefruit-bright opening, and two reviewers reach for the same image: sweet popcorn.

A Drop d'Issey Eau de Parfum

Issey Miyake Parfums — Soft in projection, wearers often find, and anywhere from short to long in duration: creamy almond milk, lilac and rose on a powdery vanilla..

Alien Eau de Parfum

Mugler — Current bottles project strongly and persist, by many wearers' accounts, with jasmine sambac in the lead and warm cashmeran and amber behind it..

Amber Perfume Oil

Nemat — More clean musk than amber: sun-warmed cotton and freshly washed skin with a faint sweetness, worn close and often layered under other scents.

Angel Eau de Parfum

Mugler — The house's note list places caramelized cotton candy, praline and honey between bergamot and a vanilla-patchouli base.

Angels' Share Eau de Parfum

Kilian Paris — Cognac and oak with cinnamon, praline, tonka and vanilla: sweet and woody, and for many wearers it projects strongly for several hours..

Arabie Eau de Parfum

Serge Lutens — Dense dried fruit and cumin, with a dark, sticky sweetness and savoury spice.

Ari Eau de Parfum

Ariana Grande — Juicy pear, pink grapefruit and raspberry open sharp and sparkling, then muguet and rose settle into a marshmallow that several wearers place exactly: the coloured ones from the supermarket bag.

Baccarat Rouge 540 Eau de Parfum

Maison Francis Kurkdjian — Opinion splits hard between captivating and cloying on this spun-sugar-and-saffron scent, laid over a vast ambergris-and-dry-wood accord that some noses read as medicinal or metallic.

Bad Boy Eau de Toilette

Carolina Herrera — Chocolate is the word that keeps coming back: a soft bar steeped in ambroxan for one owner, a nutty milk chocolate for a tester at an airport, Nutella for a third, and for a fourth a bitter, herbal cocoa smothered by clary sage.

Bee Extrait de Parfum

Zoologist — Honey built without honey: the house uses beeswax and a royal-jelly accord, and wearers describe waxy, golden florals, mimosa and orange flower, over benzoin and vanilla.

Blackbird Parfum

Olympic Orchids — Ripe blackberry with dry grass, fir balsam and resinous cedar.

Carnal Flower Eau de Parfum

Editions de Parfums Frédéric Malle — Tuberose front and centre, with a cool, green eucalyptus-and-melon opening.

Champaca Parfum

Ormonde Jayne — Moderate, close wear is the usual report for this creamy champaca and freesia on warm, starchy rice, freshened by green tea and bamboo..

Concrete

Comme des Garçons — Its mineral side divides reviewers, chalk or cement dust for some and a sherbet or bubblegum sweetness for others, set among cumin, clove and a metallic rose on creamy, powdery wood..

Cool Water Intense Eau de Parfum

Davidoff — Green mandarin starts it, orange Fanta to one nose, and a creamy coconut nectar follows before an amber base that refuses to leave.

Copper Eau de Parfum

Comme des Garçons — Built on a contradiction, and wearers feel both halves: a sharp green, peppery opening that several compare to a handful of coins, then a soft settle into vanilla and myrrh.

Encelade

Marc-Antoine Barrois — Sour rhubarb, damp earth and leather with a strong green character, which some wearers liken to tomato leaf, compost or burnt matches.

Eros Eau de Toilette

Versace — Subtle it is not, for many wearers, who describe strong projection and long wear from its mint and sweet apple on cedar, vetiver and vanilla..

Fame Eau de Parfum

Rabanne — A robot-shaped bottle holding juicy mango, jasmine and a creamy vanilla that wearers liken to a mango mousse or fruit ice cream, and two catch a coconut the house never lists.

Fantasy Eau de Parfum

Britney Spears — Sweet enough to bite, as one owner puts it: fruit and cupcake over a creamy, musky base, comforting rather than grown-up.

Fantomas Extrait de Parfum

Nasomatto — Melon candy on hot asphalt: wearers describe watermelon and caramel against rubber, vinyl and gunpowder smoke, like an inflatable pool toy left out in the sun.

Fig-Tea Eau de Toilette

Nicolaï — Osmanthus, orange and green tea with an apricot-like davana accent, on a soft guaiac-and-amber background.

Flower by Kenzo

Kenzo — Lipstick and face powder are the comparisons that come up for this powdery violet and rose on vanilla.

Flowerbomb Eau de Parfum

Viktor&Rolf — Dense and sweet, this floral sits on an earthy, patchouli-like background, and most reports describe substantial projection and long wear..

Followed Eau de Parfum

Kerosene — Days is how long wearers say this breakfast gourmand lasts, projecting enormously on skin, clothes and, in one case, a window screen: maple syrup poured over strong coffee, with caramel, cocoa and a whiff of pancakes.

Gaultier Divine Eau de Parfum

Jean Paul Gaultier — Watermelon eaten near the rind, one wearer says, then lily and salt on a sea breeze, with creamy vanilla and meringue beneath; to another it is a luscious dessert by the beach until a wave leaves a mouthful of sea water.

God is a Woman Eau de Parfum

Ariana Grande — Pear carries this one and the wearers know it: fresh-cut, watery, candied, stored in its own juice, dipped in caramel.

Good Girl Blush Eau de Parfum

Carolina Herrera — Peony leads, dewy and almost rose-like, with bergamot and a powdery bitter almond before vanilla and tonka settle it; one wearer first thought of Tommy Girl, another of Delina.

Gucci Rush Eau de Toilette

Gucci — Creamy peach, gardenia and vanilla over mossy patchouli, with the strong projection and long wear that wearers commonly report..

Her Eau de Parfum

Burberry — The limited reports describe jammy berries, violet, clean musk and dry amber.

Hibiscus Mahajád Extrait de Parfum

Maison Crivelli — Tart hibiscus tea and rose preserve lead, cut with spearmint and blackcurrant, before vanilla and a supple leather take over.

Hypnotic Poison Eau de Toilette

Dior — Almond and vanilla with an anise edge that wearers keep naming as root beer, licorice or marzipan; Play-Doh comes up so often it works as a fit test.

Insolence Eau de Parfum

Guerlain — Violet in its loudest form: owners reach for Parma-violet sweets, grape candy and lipstick powder, with red berries and orange blossom behind it.

Invictus Victory Elixir Parfum Intense

Rabanne — Vanilla and amber from the first spray, one owner writes, and it barely moves in eight hours; others find smoky incense and patchouli, a coconut from nowhere, or a vanilla ice cream that brought them more compliments than anything else.

Jeux de Peau Eau de Parfum

Serge Lutens — Bread comes up in nearly every report: warm crust, toast and butter, then apricot jam, licorice and sandalwood as it dries down.

Juicy Couture Eau de Parfum

Juicy Couture — Tuberose with buttered popcorn, two wearers find, or a white-flower bouquet over watermelon and caramel crème that one self-declared tuberose hater keeps returning to into the 2020s.

Jungle L'Éléphant Eau de Parfum

Kenzo — Clove and cardamom announce it before anything else, and wearers keep reaching for Christmas: mulled spice, potpourri, a scented candle, with mango and liquorice folded into a vanilla and patchouli base.

La Belle Le Parfum Eau de Parfum Intense

Jean Paul Gaultier — Pears poached in syrup, then vanilla and a great deal of tonka, with a thread of incense smoke underneath: owners reach for it on winter date nights and warn that two or three sprays are plenty.

La Vie Est Belle Eau de Parfum

Lancôme — Strong projection and long wear are the norm in reviewers' reports of this sweet, powdery iris on a prominent patchouli base..

Lady Million Eau de Parfum

Rabanne — Sweet, loud and glossy, this is the scent that, one wearer says, gets them followed around the office: raspberry and orange blossom drizzled with honey on jasmine and patchouli.

Le Beau Eau de Toilette

Jean Paul Gaultier — Coconut flakes first, one wearer writes, then a sweet, creamy coconut and tonka that puts two others in mind of a Raffaello praline and a third of a piña colada, sunscreen and all, which does not bother them.

Le Beau Le Parfum Eau de Parfum Intense

Jean Paul Gaultier — A piña colada that turns into a coconut gummy and settles on amber woods, one wearer traces, denser than the Eau de Toilette; others get pineapple and coconut sunscreen, or a creamy tonka-vanilla within the hour.

Le Male Eau de Toilette

Jean Paul Gaultier — Lavender and mint over vanilla, with the shaving-soap smell of an old barbershop: the sailor-torso bottle that fought Joop! Homme for the dance floors of the 1990s.

Le Male Elixir Parfum

Jean Paul Gaultier — Le Male on steroids, one owner calls it: a loud minty lavender opening that sinks into honey, tonka and vanilla, sweet enough to score an eleven on another's sugar meter.

Le Male Le Parfum Eau de Parfum Intense

Jean Paul Gaultier — The original Le Male's lavender and vanilla, darkened with a burst of cardamom and a powdery iris: to one owner a rich chocolate dessert made out of the original, to another Le Male's final form.

Libre Eau de Parfum

Yves Saint Laurent — Noticeable at a distance and long-wearing, by the general run of reviews, it pairs sharp, aromatic lavender and orange blossom with sweet vanilla..

Like This Eau de Parfum

Etat Libre d'Orange — Pumpkin and ginger as warm, savoury vegetables and spice, with bright tangerine at the start.

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Loulou Eau de Parfum

Cacharel — Purple, spiced and unmistakably of the eighties: a sweet floral with powder and a dense vanilla heart that wearers have come back to for decades.

Lust Perfume

Lush — Jasmine the way the flower really smells, which is the whole argument about it.

Milk Expressive Eau de Parfum

Commodity — Cold milk and toasted marshmallow, with sesame at the start and a woody warmth under it: comfort food, as most owners put it.

Million Gold for Her Eau de Parfum

Rabanne — For one reviewer the dry-down is the whole point: they smelled it on their boyfriend's chest, found that store strips could not match it, and bought a bottle once a stray spray landed on a finger.

MOD Vanilla Eau de Parfum

Ariana Grande — Cool rather than sugary, this is what one wearer calls a vanilla for people who dislike vanilla.

Modern Muse Eau de Parfum

Estée Lauder — Strangers stop wearers to ask what it is, and one owner's car still smells of it at the end of the workday: a white-floral bouquet led by jasmine, with honeysuckle, tuberose and lily on patchouli, vanilla and a woody musk.

Moonlight Eau de Parfum

Ariana Grande — Blackcurrant and plum start it and the powder stays put, with marshmallow and peony in the middle and sandalwood, amber and vanilla settling underneath.

Obsession for Men Eau de Toilette

Calvin Klein — In one reviewer's telling, this is what a stepdad sprays on a dozen times after pickup basketball instead of showering; in another's, the 1980s powerhouse that filled nightclub dance floors.

Poets of Berlin Eau de Parfum

Vilhelm Parfumerie — Blueberry muffin, wearers often say: tart blueberry and lemon on sweet vanilla, with orris and vetiver drying the finish, and it often wears closer after the opening..

R.E.M. Eau de Parfum

Ariana Grande — Lavender is the axis here: herbal and loud to some noses, a sleepy soft version to others, wrapped in salted caramel and marshmallow with tonka and sandalwood underneath.

Red Door Eau de Toilette

Elizabeth Arden — A big, honeyed bouquet of rose, orange blossom and white flowers that turns warm and spicy: the smell of the early nineties to those who were there, and a powerhouse of which one spray is plenty.

Replica Jazz Club Eau de Toilette

Maison Margiela — Rum, tobacco and vanilla, blended smooth: boozy and warm, with a coconut edge that one reviewer reads as tropical rather than dark.

Roasted Green Tea Eau de Parfum

J-Scent — Roasted green tea with nutty, savoury peanut and seaweed impressions, cooled by mint and wintergreen before a softer iris-and-vanilla drydown, as reviewers describe it..

Rouge Eau de Parfum

Comme des Garçons — Ginger and pink pepper with earthy, faintly sweet beetroot; later on, wearers say, incense and cistus turn it dry and resinous..

Scandal Eau de Parfum

Jean Paul Gaultier — Blood orange and a flood of honey over gardenia and patchouli, with a beeswax, faintly animal warmth that fans call sexy, in a kitschy showstopper of a bottle.

Scandal pour Homme Eau de Toilette

Jean Paul Gaultier — One wearer tracked it down after smelling it on a stranger at a holiday restaurant; another bought it as their very first fragrance and fell into the hobby.

Sécrétions Magnifiques Eau de Parfum

Etat Libre d'Orange — Reactions divide sharply to its salty, metallic and milky accords, sometimes likened to blood, set on iris and sandalwood; what many reviewers agree on is that it projects hard and does not let go..

Selperniku Eau de Parfum

January Scent Project — A gourmand that is not a dessert: salted butter, apricot and milk, lifted by green cypress.

Sensuous Eau de Parfum

Estée Lauder — Sun-warmed skin after a day outdoors, to one wearer; the softest angora and cashmere, to another: honeyed woods and amber with a haze of white flowers and pepper.

Shalimar Eau de Parfum

Guerlain — To some reviewers the sharp bergamot opening reads rubbery or animalic before the softer vanilla arrives; beneath it lie powdery vanilla and tonka, smoky leather and resin..

Spicebomb Eau de Toilette

Viktor&Rolf — Pepper first, then cinnamon and tobacco: to one wearer a spice cabinet opened in a winter cottage, to another a cinnamon pop tart over clean leather.

Spicebomb Extreme Eau de Parfum

Viktor&Rolf — Like walking into a freshly made Christmas dinner, one owner writes: pepper and a cumin-edged spice settling into smooth tobacco and a steady hum of vanilla.

Spicebomb Night Vision Eau de Parfum

Viktor&Rolf — Green apple is the note wearers name first, then pepper and chili and a sweetness that reads as a Christmas tree to one reviewer and a shisha bar to another.

Sweet Like Candy Eau de Parfum

Ariana Grande — Blackberry and bergamot first, marshmallow and cassis underneath: wearers reach for sour sweets that make the mouth water, jammy strawberry chews from a corner shop, cotton candy laid over soft white flowers.

Tank Battle Perfume

Lush — Bubblegum dropped on wet soil: that collision is what nearly everyone reports, with metal, damp concrete and clove turning up often and cola or beetroot now and then.

The Ghost in the Shell Eau de Parfum

Etat Libre d'Orange — Soft as it is, some wearers find it long-lasting: yuzu and a milky skin accord that leaves synthetic, plastic or cool metallic impressions, resting on moss and amber woods..

The Most Wanted Eau de Parfum Intense

Azzaro — Cardamom opens it, dry and a little spicy, before toffee, bourbon vanilla and sweet woods settle in; one reviewer smells a Christmas market and sherry-cask whisky, while another calls it a bottled playboy.

The Most Wanted Parfum

Azzaro — Red ginger opens it, cool enough that one wearer compares it to wintergreen gum without the mint, before bourbon vanilla and warm woods take over; to one owner the result is dark spiced rum, to a critic a cheap grape scent.

This Is Her! Eau de Parfum

Zadig & Voltaire — Whipped cream rather than icing sugar: chestnut and vanilla folded into something soft and milky, with a peppery prickle at the start and sandalwood underneath.

Times Square Eau de Parfum

Masque Milano — Lipstick meets the street: glossy, waxy cosmetics and peachy osmanthus against hot rubber, asphalt and smoke.

Tom Yum Eau de Parfum

Parfum Prissana — Lime leaf, lemongrass and galangal with jasmine and coriander: the vivid herbal-citrus opening gives way to a woody patchouli drydown, with generally moderate wear, reviewers say..

Unknown Pleasures Eau de Parfum

Kerosene — Earl Grey and lemon show early, reviewers notice, then a warmer, sweeter pastry of caramel, vanilla and waffle cone takes over..

Vanilla | 28 Eau de Parfum

KAYALI — Sweet vanilla and brown sugar after a jasmine opening, with patchouli and amber giving the drydown an earthier edge.

Very Good Girl Eau de Parfum

Carolina Herrera — Tart currant and lychee open it, and the rose that follows depends on who is wearing it: jammy on one skin, a soapy rose bomb on another, chalky as setting powder on a third, and to an owner who bought it on impulse, a far cheaper cousin of Delina.

Virgin Island Water Eau de Parfum

Creed — Sharp lime and bergamot, then creamy coconut and white flowers; as the citrus fades, soft tonka and musk remain, usually close to the skin by wearers' accounts..

Viva La Juicy Eau de Parfum

Juicy Couture — Wild berries and mandarin over honeysuckle and a caramel-vanilla base, the smell of a late-2000s shopping mall in a pink-bowed bottle: for one owner, a signature and the most complimented scent for over a decade.

Wanted Eau de Toilette

Azzaro — Lemon and ginger fizz at the start, then cardamom, a synthetic green apple and a tonka-and-vetiver dry-down; one wearer calls it a sugar-water balloon, another a scent for every season, day or evening.

Womanity Eau de Parfum

Mugler — Sweet and salty at once is the whole design, and wearers say it lands: green fig and fig leaf over a skin-warm saltiness that reads as sea air rather than seafood.

Woodcut Parfum

Olympic Orchids — Fresh-cut lumber, and specifically so: wearers describe sawn boards, sap, bark and the hot-metal smell of a saw, like a lumber yard or the wood aisle of a hardware store.