Note

Malt

Malt smells of sweet cereal, bread crust, and toasted grain, sometimes with a faint cocoa-like warmth. It adds a grainy gourmand heart or base beside coffee, vanilla, and boozy accords.

In 6 perfumes.

Found in Last Birthday Cake, John Varvatos and Al Contrario

Most popular with malt

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

Often paired with

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

Too few perfumes to say.

How it reads

Sweet and woody above all. Reaches for gourmand, nutty and balsamic far more often than the catalogue as a whole, and rarely for citrus.

  • sweet
  • woody
  • gourmand
  • balsamic
  • nutty
  • vanilla
  • fruity
  • leather