Note
Cumin
Cumin smells warm, earthy, and pungent, with a dry spice aroma that can recall sweaty skin. Used sparingly, it adds bodily warmth to the heart and base, especially alongside rose, woods, and animalic notes.
In 64 perfumes. Usually found in the opening.
- Opening
- 56%
- Heart
- 31%
- Drydown
- 14%
Most popular with cumin
The best-known perfumes carrying it anywhere in the pyramid.
Often paired with
Notes that show up next to cumin more often than chance would predict.
How it reads
Woody and warm spicy above all. Reaches for animalic, balsamic and earthy far more often than the catalogue as a whole.
- woody
- warm spicy
- sweet
- balsamic
- animalic
- earthy
- citrus
- aromatic