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1 Definition: Gourmand
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2 Six Fragrance Types at a Glance
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3 Perfumer Mandy Aftel on Food-Based Fragrance Trend
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5 Do You Love Whoopie Enough to Smell Like It?
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8 This Perfume Smells Like Japanese Cuisine
Thanksgiving
9 Satisfy Your Sweet Tooth With a Trio of Thanksgiving Scents
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10 Nail Biter? Bubble Yum-Scented Nail Polish Could Be Your Downfall
In things you probably don't need (but are still kind of cool) news, your nails can now smell either like Laffy Taffy, Jolly Ranchers, or Bubble Yum. Gourmand much? Sure, we've seen perfumed polishes before, with Revlon and Anna Sui both playing around with the notion. Now there's this candy-sweet trio of candy-scented lacquers ($5 each). Judging by the pictures below, these polishes, which Read more
The creative folks at Demeter Fragrance Library are at it again. (Yes, the same ones that brought us a cannabis-inspired cologne and many other unconventional scents.) The latest offering is seasonally appropriate: Virtual Thanksgiving ($36). If you love perfume and pie, you're in for a real treat, as the set includes a trio of gourmand fragrances that seem — seem being the operative word here Read more
Love the smell of mirin, wasabi, and umeboshi? Then this Hinomaru Bento Solid Perfume ($5) may be just the thing for you. The scent purports to have the same zing as wasabi but with an underlying sweetness. I'd be interested in smelling this gourmand fragrance, but would you be curious, too? Or will you pass on this course? Read more
I Heart Unicorns ($52) may not seem like the winningest handle for a perfume, especially given the fact that most fragrances trade on exclusivity or sexiness to sell. If, however, you love sugar and things that smell exactly like a blend of orange Starbursts, Pez candy, and bubble gum, then you may just love this gourmand scent. Unicorns opens with a burst of orange creamsicle, then moves on to Read more
Yes, you read that headline correctly. Mariah Carey is taking her celebrity fragrance empire in a direction that's totally unexpected, and yet exactly like something she'd do. Mariah, Elizabeth Arden, and Topps (yep, the baseball card maker) have all gotten together to create Lollipop Blings, three perfumes that come with a matching Ring Pop. One of the scents, called Ribbon, is actually based Read more
I have a love affair with frosting. Seriously, I will wait until the corner piece is being served so that I can maximize my frosting-to-cake ratio. And FarmHouse Fresh's Whoopie! White Velvet Shea Butter Cream ($30) has an authentic scent that truly makes me want to run to grab a spoon. I'm not hugely into wearing dessert-y scents, but if you are, this white velvet cream and layer cake scent Read more
If you like sweet scents, aka gourmand, here's a real treat for you. Reader RacerWife7 loves the sugary sweetness of Aquolina Pink Sugar Eau de Toilette Natural Spray ($55). It's a bit too candy-shop for me, but it's a popular scent that features notes of cotton candy, strawberry, vanilla, and musk. To me, this smells like cotton candy. Mmm! It's so good. It's a young scent, really — and I'm Read more
The big trend right now in fragrance is gourmand, or food-based aromas, according to perfume expert Mandy Aftel. So what does it all mean anyway? Are you a floral kind of gal or does chypre do it for you? In case you're uncertain, check out six of some of the more popular fragrance category definitions below. Then, impress your friends with your olfactory group knowledge about the "juice" — Read more
Last week, I met renowned natural perfumer, author, and owner of Aftelier Perfumes, Mandy Aftel, in her visually stunning Berkeley, CA studio. With wood built-ins, glass bottles lining the windows, and apothecary style furnishings, it was a little Frank Lloyd Wright with a pinch of Harry Potter. Topped off with the collective smell of essential oils and perfumes? Yeah, it was pretty much like Read more
If you're a "foodie" like Yum, a gourmand is someone who truly appreciates good food. In Bella's world, however, gourmand is a classification of the fragrance kind. While often associated with sweeter notes, gourmand fragrances encompass edible, food-flavored aromas, such as coffee, cupcake, whiskey, chocolate, almond, caramel, vanilla, and even cotton candy. Sweet or spicy, gourmand fragrances Read more
