Lait Concentré

I have a really hard time with fragrances as a chronic migrainer. Most scents make my brain go haywire (migraines are not just headaches, they have a bunch of neurological symptoms attached). This scent is probably one of the first ones where I'm not afraid to spray more than a tiny bit of it in a spot that is far away from my face so that I can only smell small whifs of it here and there. I am SENSITIVE yall, and I've been spraying this on my shirt right in front of my face. I LOVE that it has intimate sillage, in my mind you should only ever smell my perfume if you're coming in for a hug, and it should not stick around in your nose after said hug. Everyone's triggers are different and I wouldn't want my perfume triggering another person's migraines in a bus. This is one of the first perfumes in a long time that I would totally buy a whole bottle of and could see myself actually using it up. This is what I want when I say I want a skin scent (not musk galore like so many "skin scents"). It's soft but not powdery, sweet but not cloying. My only con (and it's kind of a big one for the price) is that it does not last very long. It's a very photorealistic sweetened condensed milk scent. There is an extremely slight sourness at times but it's all so balanced. I can't wait to try the rest of chabaud's gourmand line, especially lait de biscuit!

I have been wanting to try this for so long and I finally got my hands on the Chabaud Gourmand Set and I am in raptures. Lait Concentré is my favourite of the set. It's this warm and comforting milky gourmand, and I mean a true gourmand; like, it smells food-like. I find that other fragrances described as gourmand are often grounded with florals or wood or amber, or other non-foodie base notes. Not Lait Concentré. It smells actually edible. From first spray, I get these beautiful impressions of condensed milk, cajeta, White Rabbit candy, toasted milk solids and a whisper of coconut cream. A deep butter note emerges after an hour or so of wear. Comforting, cozy, delicious. I don't know what I want more, to wear this or drink it. If Lait Concentré were saccharine sweet it'd get cloying but it's not; it's sweet in the way that steamed milk is naturally sweet. Compared to other fragrances in the series, Lait Concentré is less sweet than Vanille, about as sweet as Lait de Biscuit, and sweeter than Chocolat. Be aware though: though it lasts a decent while, it doesn't project far. This is the lactonic perfume of my dreams. I am 100% buying a full bottle when my 7 mL sample is done.

Like a more sour coconut Bianco latte without the butteriness and the chocking swetness, this is true true lactonic, very faint, very elegant aside the sourness that almost smells like a mango, puffed to my 3 yo after he chosed vanilla thinking he wouldnt notice and he said "mom, this is mango not the vanilla one" , and yeah, is the kind of coconut that smells like a mango , but is soooo good, and i love coconut but hate mango, this one made me consider the note for other fragances, and i actually like sour milk, but this is not like a nasty sour milk, is like a sweet sour milk with mango, the most creamy coconut on earth , condensed milk and one almost floral sweet vanilla, is really good, not tacky at all , for me has more taste than bianco latte, its my favorite gourmand and yeah, in this bianco latte era you wont find something like this, this is the true lactonic my friends, also, this one is the most versatil fragance i have for layering, makes everything more coconut creamy, it was great with Eau de coconut from bath and body works

I screamed, literally screamed when I sprayed this. This is my dream come true in a bottle. Its not complex, its not "artistic" in a perfumer sense, its quite literal and linear. It is pure. condensed. milk. Its warm, decadent, buttery, rich, sweet. There's no coconut. Nothing fresh or grounding. This is a hyper-realistic WARM condensed milk. No florals, no spices, nothing "earthy" no grass notes. This is what condensed milk smells like when you're caramelizing it into dulce de leche but before it takes on the nutty brown notes. I'd bathe in this stuff if I could. I hope they sell it forever because I own too much perfume to invest in back-up bottles. Honestly, I might even go on a buying freeze. I don't imagine anything will satisfy me for a while after adding this to my collection (and another gorgeous amber fragrance that I'll review after this.) Smells like you just baked brown butter cookies without any fixings. Just browned butter and brown sugar cookies. Caramelized sweet gooey goodness.

I love this scent. It smells very edible and delicious. To me it’s very buttery, it reminded me of the scent that wafts up when I’m making cookies and I’m creaming the butter and sugar together - sweet, rich, and creamy. I oversprayed a bit this morning because I felt the first time I wore it seemed to not have a very strong sillage or longevity. However, that was this morning at 9am and when my girls came in this afternoon and 5pm they said they could smell it all through the house and that it smelled amazing and sweet. I think we have a tendency to judge some perfumes wrongly because of going scent blind to what we’re wearing. I love sweet perfumes, but I have experienced cloying with some, but I feel the buttery scent of it balances out the sweetness...at least to my nose. For a reference point of my opinion, I love the idea of vanilla but only sort of like very few of them. So if you’re looking for something to satisfy what you may have been looking for in a vanilla, this could be it.