Talc Gourmand

Order me a tonne of baby wipes if they smell like the delicious, Talc Gourmand. This is one of my favorite scent. She reminds me of Dior Feve Delicious but with powder, not exactly the same but the same genre, only I love TG and only like Feve. Talc Gourmand does come across as over zealous at first spray but' she settles fast to a respectable, elegant, beautiful scent I adore. We've been together quite a while now, I can't imagine life without her to be honest, She is a keeper, One to hold on too, until the very end, When they will have to pry her from my, cold, tightly gripped fingers, once I am gone. lol. I'm looking for a bottle any size. Big Love ❤

Beautiful!! I cant understand why this doesn't have a better average!.. Its just as pretty as Guerlain gourmand couquine to me. this is a pretty gourmand with something holiday about it so I'll be perfect for the month of December. There is a fresh powder in it as well that makes it nice to come into spring with doing just fine.. but as for my one experience with it. I feel this is a very " Happy" scent! However I dont use as much as I do Back to black, as they both have a lot of honey and am going to get rid of it. I will sell for a good price of trade ...if anyone is interested please let me know

Overall, after a short drydown, Talc Gourmand smells very much like a sweeter version of L'Occitane Amande bath products, which I love, on serious steroids in both strength and quality. This is a bit more powdery, especially the opening, though the almond steps up it's game fairly quickly. It's lovely, slightly sweet, and soft, yet potent, so a full bottle will probably last forever. I blind purchased from Osswald (An excellent parfumerie with top notch service. Highly recommended) and couldn't be happier. It's a keeper, for sure.

A soft, comforting cloud to fall into after a long day at work. Thick, luscious and luxurious powder embraces me softly. Heliotrope lends the fragrance an airy and swirly character. Honey adds aromatic sweetness without the stickiness or oversweet sugary tones that I sometimes encounter in honey-based fragrances. This is a warm, comfy blanket on cold days, and a dry, powdery, clean scent on hot and humid days. It has never let me down, no matter when I reach for it. I just love it!

Unisex leaning, bublegummy, powdery. Nice, pleasant perfume. I dont know how anyone could be offended by this :)

Yay! I can smell this! perfume to counteract Covid 19.It seems to be working. On to another scent.

Dense, chocolatey baby powder. I rarely enjoy chocolate scents- I find it to be a difficult scent to replicate without smelling really odd and unnatural. The accompanying heliotrope turns this into a cherry-chocolate honey, and it is quite spectacular. I know that powdery scents like this don’t work for everyone, given the “old fashioned” associations that come to mind. But I just love this. It makes me feel like a woman from the Old Hollywood era in front of her vanity, with a silk and swansdown robe, cherry scented lipstick, dabbing a honey scented powder puff on her chest. It’s not an everyday scent; I save this especially for cold nights after a bath or special occasions when I want to feel fabulous in a “bygone glamour” kind of way.

What a lightness of being, which comes out of this sample of Talc Gourmand! It felt like opening a box of Rakhat Loukhum Turkish delights when I was a child.. Great mood and a smile guaranteed.

Yes, like baby powder and vanilla. Not so much as I would prefer to smell as an adult, but pleasing and sweet in any case. I own and prefer Vaniglia del Madagascar and Cara from this house.

Pleasant and comfortable scent with marked sweet and sensual hints. Excellent durability.

Second review, this time in hot weather: It's still mainly a powdery note with the other notes not really detectable. Now that it's hot weather and I am using actual powder, I find I'm not really enticed by a powder scented perfume anymore. I already have a nice sweet powder perfume, Plaisir Gourmand, which I just put away to save for winter. I have several lovely perfumed actual talcum powders to use for summer. So I don't think I need Talc Gourmand in my wardrobe.

cloth: sweet, nice, couldn't really detect a talc note skin: beautiful! Both sugar sweet and talc powdery, at once. It's got a lot of my favorite notes in it but I can't really detect them individually. It's the epitome of what people mean by "well blended," one just experiences it as a whole rather than as a progression of individual scents. I like it.

I ordered a decant of this because it sounded oddly juvenile. Caramel, chocolate and baby powder? Hmm, okay, why not? Truthfully, I thought it sounded dreadful, but the fact is, only the skin can tell, when it comes to perfume, and I've certainly loved my share of scents that looked like abominations on paper. Unfortunately, this scent was also an abomination on my skin. My first impressions were of the smell of something burnt and unwholesome, an unctuous and leaden "caramel" note that I'd expect from a dollar store body spray, not a costly niche perfumer. Then came the scent of baby powder, a scent I normally love, but found joyless and oddly dirty here. These notes taken together created a crass and dreary scent that was almost visibly lank and lifeless on the skin, reminiscent of a gas station changing table. I would have hurried to wash it off, but it was actually so awful on me that I just kept smelling myself in fascination and horror. Never has such a cheerful array of innocent notes been arranged to such dismal, oppressive effect. And what a feat to make baby powder smell unclean. It simply has to have been my chemistry- there's no way the scent could smell this bad on everyone else. This scent has been compared here and there to Il Profumi di Firenze's Talco Delicato, and although both scents are definitely reliant on baby powder, Talco Delicato is very different- it is a buoyant and fuzzy powderpuff of a scent, discreetly spicy and rosy, with no trace of the adolescent synthetics of Talc Gourmand. It is much closer to Villoresi's Teint de Neige, if comparisons must be made, though Villoresi's has a wind-dried linen like scent that Delicato forgoes in favor of a very downy musk note.

I’m grateful for this perfume because it made me realize that while I LOVE powdery perfumes, I want to trot along the “baby powderish” line but never cross it into smelling like full on baby powder. With a name like this, I was convinced that I would love it- I love the Le Labo Labdanum / Shalimar for the baby powder vibes. But, this literally smells like you took a bottle of baby powder and squeezed it with your hands- the same whiff you get when baby powder dust exits the top of the bottle, is this fragrance. It literally smells like somebody slathered sweet vanilla smelling lotion on themselves and then rolled around in baby powder. Not for me but I’m sure there are many out there who would be into this.

Some may disagree, but although this is a powdery scent, tp my nose its got an underlying suffocatingly sweet, liquorice kind of smell. The notes here are misleading. You get a blast of honey, and then the sickly strong liquorice. I dont get chocolate powder, i just get a sweet powdery something in the dry down. Its a pass for me. Silage is good and so is projection, so if you care for the scent thats a bonus.

Baby powder and fresh baby diapers. It was as if I'd put on a bit of vaguely gourmand fragrance, then given the baby a bath. Now he smells so sweet and powdery clean! And so do I. I'm sorry, I don't want to smell like that. My kids are out of diapers and I don't want to be a grandma yet! Also, I would just go buy baby powder and use that instead.

We could have had a perfect powder scent but honey and other sweet notes ruin it. powder and honey SO doesnt go well together

This is almost a dead ringer for Talco Delicato. So incredibly close that if you have one it's utterly pointless to have the other. I was soooo looking forward to sniffing this one! If you love love love powder~you have found nirvana! If you only like, or cannot tolerate powder~run! It was too much for me~very cloying. On the other hand, I like powder~but only in small doses.It is a warm fragrance, but for me, it was very very difficult to pin point the notes because they were all behind that thick veil of...you guessed it~POWDER! There is no false advertising here. Kudos for being exactly what it says it is! And I love this parfum line~this one in particular however~not so much. YMMV!

This is a gentle, sweet hug at the end of the day. This is the one I reach for after I wash off my makeup and settle in for the night. Not a sophisticated scent. Not a sexy scent. Just sweet baby powder - and I love it. So if that’s your thing, this is the best talc scent out there. I prefer this one to Cara. (My cats pick this one up from me more than any other scent - and it lasts the longest. No idea why.)

I had such high hopes for this one. Alas, it was nothing more than powder with a hint of some vague sweetness. I did get hints of the honey at the very end of the drydown, but it was fleeting and way to late to make an impression. Keiko Mecheri's Loukhoum is a way better powdery gourmand IMHO.

extraordinary for me.... a refined powder brush round the neck at the barbershop just before removing the paper collar. It’s too special so I’ve set it aside so as not to finish. Maybe even as interesting as Helmut Lang EDC. A unique treat for lovers of the talcum genre.

I get powdery almonds, a high pitched play-dohey vanilla. So, heliotrope is doing its job here. Infinite staying power on me, I like it very much. It shake hands with Datura noir by Serge Lutens, but sweeter.

Very, very powdery, and very sweet! I'm sensitive to powder smells though, so it's a no for me. I've got most of the sample left. Drop me a PM if you'd like it!

Very pretty sweet and powdery gourmand, but it's been done a million times before. This is kind of like a lite version of Keiko Mecheri's Loukhoum.

This is a very strong and very sweet talcum powder. It's way too sweet for me. Very cloying. Cheers to those that enjoy it.