Toffee Ganache

This one is also a really great gourmand. Again not so super foodie that it overwhelms, this is like a Christmas cookie made perfumey. The toffee is lovely, and I actually love the enormous cinnamon I am getting here but its probably not blind buy safe to those who fear cinnamon, but its giving me way more biscoff cookies than Paris Corner's tiramisu speculoos which didn't hit the target for me. I think the cloves make it more interestingly delicious and festive, that was definitely a note I was fearing, I absolutely like it here though. I also love that for something called toffee ganache its really not sweet to me, which I love as it can be redundant to always smell these ooey gooey to the max sweet perfumes, they kind of end up smelling the same and you lose the other notes, here you can definitely smell all the other notes making it fantastically complex and not linear. Obviously it has some sweetness but not the toffee you are probably thinking. It genuinely smells like a french bakery. The biscuit note is strong and not the typical synthetic cookie style scent in many cookie perfumes (sorry I love some of y'all anyway but lets face it, its a chips ahoy cookie cheapness going on in most) but here it feels so artisan and expensive. Also the milk note is gorgeous and very unique, you just feel so inviting and definitely milky with none of the baby milking smell (which I actually tend to like tbh, but its not over here) but perfumed milk. Like truly a perfumed with spices milk, like a Chai milk. Basically this and French Vanilla Latte are in a league of their own when it comes to Arab gourmands, dare I say gourmands in general, nothing has pushed the genre this far in smelling like a Michelin star bakery. I think they are quite masterpieces in perfumery.

Just came back to say it has gotten even better over time! Crazy addictive cinnamon roll vibe 😍

Got a free sample. It's straight up Speculoos and Pepperkakker. The tester card lists Edible Notes, Speculoos and Hot Milk in the base. I happen to love Speculoos biscuits and I even buy the Yorkshire Tea Caramelised Biscuit Brew as I love the flavour so much. I seem to have shifted away from gourmands over this last year but if I wanted to smell gourmand Wintery and cozy and just like a clove spiced caramelised biscuit, this is the one. It's not really toffee-ish and not at all unctuous and ganache like in texture, it's like opening a big red tin of pepperkakker from IKEA and someone has mixed in some Lotus biscuits and inhaling the warm dry crumbs. True gourmand queens will love this if they love Speculoos and similar fayre.

Uff this is beast mode, this is very spicy - think of Qahwa, Dukran, Althair. On initial scent I smell vanilla cookie with clove and milk on the side, as it dries down, I get more of that spicy vanilla, think about Althair. I did 2 sprays and it lasted all day and also projected quite strongly. I recall somebody said that it smells like spices in chai tea and I think its correct. Its not literal foody scent and totally unisex.

Got a decant. Very light hazelnut scent with a bit of butter and cinnamon. A gourmand that didn't make me puke at first sniff. (i don't have great luck with hazelnut notes) But I wish there was something thick and dense in this. It's good for layering but i'm not buying a full bottle.