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Gourmand perfume guides
Every family, explored through its scent notes — so you can find the vanilla, marshmallow, cake, cookie, breakfast, caramel or nutty scent that fits you.
Vanilla Perfumes
The heart of every gourmand — creamy, rich, endlessly wearable.
Vanilla is the backbone of the gourmand world, and Wearable Gourmand builds its vanilla extraits at a 40% fragrance-oil concentration — the brand’s stated strength. These five vanilla scents range from condensed milk and brown sugar to cookies, praline and marshmallow.
5 scents · Read the guide →Marshmallow Perfumes
Soft, sugary, cloud-like — the coziest note in perfumery.
These five marshmallow profiles explore fluffy dessert notes with cake, frosting, vanilla or berries, and the brand lists each as a 40% concentration extrait de parfum.
5 scents · Read the guide →Cake & Bakery Perfumes
Fresh from the oven — birthday cake, donuts, churros and cupcakes.
If your dream is to smell like you just walked out of a bakery, this is your family. Eight cake and bakery extraits — from birthday cake and cupcakes to glazed donuts and crispy churros — all at 40% fragrance-oil concentration, according to the brand.
8 scents · Read the guide →Cookie Perfumes
Warm from the oven — cookie dough, maple and cream.
Five cookie extraits built around warm dough, melted butter, brown sugar and vanilla: warm cookie dough, oatmeal cookie dough, maple glazed cookies, cookies and cream, and the half chocolate, half vanilla Half Moon Cookie. Cozy, edible, and made at 40% extrait strength.
5 scents · Read the guide →Breakfast Perfumes
French toast, coffee ice cream and cereal — morning, bottled.
The most playful family in gourmand perfumery: scents inspired by breakfast. French toast with maple syrup, coffee ice cream, berry cereal crunch, oatmeal with milk and honey, and spiced nutmeg froth — five extraits that smell like the best part of the morning, at 40% concentration.
5 scents · Read the guide →Caramel Perfumes
Toasted, golden and warm — caramel done properly.
Two caramel extraits: Warm Caramel Vanilla, a fireside blend of strong sweet vanilla and toasty caramel, and Sticky Pecans, a Test Lab one-of-one of butter-drenched pecans, warm vanilla and rich caramel. Both are 40% extrait de parfum.
2 scents · Read the guide →Nutty Perfumes
Almond, macadamia and honey — warm, golden, quietly addictive.
Three nutty gourmand extraits: Almond Bliss, a candy-bar-inspired coconut almond; Honey Drizzled Almonds, almond and honey with a cherry-like twist; and Macadamia Dreams, caramelized vanilla with toasted macadamia, tonka and white chocolate. All at 40% fragrance-oil concentration.
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