Note · Gourmand notes
Milky notes
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The milky accord evokes warm milk, cream or a baby's skin. It relies on lactones with creamy, slightly fruity, coconut-like facets.
What it brings
A creamy, comforting softness that rounds out woods.
Origins and uses
Milky notes do not come from a plant: they are an accord recreated by the perfumer to evoke warm milk, cream or soft skin. It often relies on lactones, ring-shaped molecules found in traces in fruit and dairy products, which industry manufactures for flavours and fragrances. The Japanese manufacturer Zeon thus describes delta-decalactone as creamy and nutty, and one of its grades as natural, milky and creamy.
In perfumery, the milky accord brings a creamy softness, sometimes slightly fruity or close to coconut. It sits in the heart or base, where it softens dry woods, spices and white flowers, and gives an impression of comfort.
In our catalogue, milky notes form the heart of Vetiver Moloko by Ex Nihilo, with cypress, before a base of vetiver, vanilla and amyris.
Text written with the help of AI, based on reference sources: encyclopedias, raw-material manufacturers and official information from the fragrance houses.
Material profile
- Family
- Gourmand notes
- Nature
- Perfumer’s accord
- Origin
- A recomposed accord, often built around lactones.
- How it is obtained
- Recomposed by the perfumer
- On Volute
- 5 fragrances
The fragrances that reveal it
In the same family · Gourmand notes
- Almond
- Almond milk
- Amaretto
- Black truffle
- Brandy
- Buckwheat
- Butter
- Calvados
- Caramel
- Chantilly cream
- Chestnut
- Chocolate
- Cocoa
- Coconut
- Coffee
- Cognac
- Cotton candy
- Coumarin
- Crème brûlée
- Gourmand accord
- Halva
- Hazelnut
- Honey
- Liquorice
- Malt
- Marshmallow
- Nougat
- Pistachio
- Praline
- Rice
- Roasted barley
- Rose liqueur
- Rum
- Sesame
- Sugar
- Sugar cane
- Toffee
- Tonka bean
- Vanilla
- Vodka
- Wheat
- Whipped cream
- Whisky