Note

Lactones

Many perfumery lactones smell creamy and rounded, recalling peach skin, coconut, or warm milk. Depending on the material, they enrich fruity hearts or soften the base alongside woods, vanilla, and musk.

In 6 perfumes.

Found in Island Bliss, Odyssey Toffee Coffee and Odyssey Eau de Montagne

Most popular with lactones

The best-known perfumes carrying it anywhere in the pyramid.

Often paired with

Notes that show up next to lactones more often than chance would predict.

Too few perfumes to say.

How it reads

Sweet and lactonic above all. Reaches for vanilla, coconut and musky far more often than the catalogue as a whole, and rarely for citrus.

  • sweet
  • lactonic
  • vanilla
  • musky
  • white floral
  • woody
  • coconut
  • fruity