Caramel
Caramel suggests browned sugar with buttery, toasted and softly bitter facets. Salted interpretations add a dry mineral contrast that keeps the sweetness from feeling entirely smooth.
Shop fragrances with Caramel →How it works in a fragrance
It rounds vanilla, nuts and milky accords and adds warmth to amber or woods.
The note’s placement and prominence depend on the complete composition.
Understanding this note
Caramel is a reconstructed scent effect rather than melted sugar in a perfume. A salted label does not by itself prove the addition of literal salt.
Related notes to explore
Vanilla →
Vanilla is warm and softly sweet, with creamy, balsamic, woody and sometimes tobacco-like facets
Benzoin →
Benzoin has a warm, resinous sweetness with vanilla, soft balsamic and gently spicy facets
Hazelnut →
Hazelnut suggests a warm toasted nut with dry woody skin and a soft praline-like sweetness
Sandalwood →
Sandalwood is a soft, creamy wood note with milky, warm and gently dry facets
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Shop Caramel fragrances → Browse all fragrance notesFragrance notes describe scent impressions. They can represent natural materials, aroma molecules or accords, rather than a complete list of ingredients.