Gourmand Bakhoor

I just got this in the mail today and I was a bit nervous spraying it due to all the comments saying it smells like spoilt milk. But I’m so happy it smells amazing😍 This smells nothing like spoilt milk. At least not to my nose. To me this is the most delicious, scrumptious, creamy, lactonic toffee scent. It’s milky, smooth, and super sweet. Imagine a thick and gooey caramel/toffee sauce poured over milky vanilla icecream. It’s exactly that! I actually do see similarities with buontalenti, except gourmand bukhoor is a more caramel and milky version of it. Also I detect zero incence, leather or smoke, so if you were worried about that, don’t be. It’s purely a toffee, caramelly milky scent. 🥛🍮 Overall, LOVE LOVE LOVE. I would say this is not a safe blind buy unless you are an extreme gourmand lover like myself. I imagine this wouldn’t be everybody’s cup of tea, but if you love super sweet and edible caramel milky scents, you will adore this one. Also, although it is super gourmand, it still remains pleasant and wearable as it isn’t too sickeningly sweet or overly foody. Ps. This stuff is very potent and long lasting. And the new jousset bottles and packaging are gorgeous and a huge improvement from the old packaging. 10/10

I'm shocked to read so many "bad" reviws about this beautiful Gourmand! But maybe I can understand a little bit becuose it's super sweet, and even gourmand lovers are not the same with sweet tolerance. Even for me it wasn't a love at first sniff. But I liked it from the start! I love the "milky" tones of it, and I love that it's a beast mode sweet blast. Not so many perfumes knows how to be realy milky/lactonic but this scent realy gives you sweet vanillic milk vibes! In my whole fragrance joureny I'm hunting for this kinde of "sweet vanillic milk" kinde of scents but in the end they turn out to be something that realy far from a real milky/lactonic fragrance! I tryed Comptoir Sud Pacifique - vanilla milky fragrances but... NO. They are spicey vanillas, fruty vanillas. But not the real smell of an actual vanillic milk. This has a very close vibe of it but actualy it's more sweeter then what I'm actualy think of when I'm talking about vanillic milk. But I grown to love and appreciate this fragrance! And I feel myself lucky that I was able to get my hands on it. I have a beautiful white&gold bottle version. I think that bottle color more suitable for this beautiful fragrance inside!

Mouth watering salted caramel and toffee. I wish the smoke accord was stronger. It's faint; almost absent. It performs like eau de toilette. I sprayed once on the chest and back to test and I couldn't smell it on myself. I had to double check the concentration. I will purchase a bottle and over spray each application. This scent is indulgent and addicting and warm. 9 month update. when I wore this, someone said I smelled like play-doh, and another person said i smelled like chapstick. I never thought Gourmand Bakhoor smelled like either of these things but I can't say either are far fetch. I've been blind sided by these perceptions and now im self conscious.

Miele e cioccolato bianco, con solo un tocco leggero e bilanciatissimo di bakhoor. Dolce e cremoso, appena spruzzato mi ha ricordato il profumo di una crema corpo che usavo da ragazzina e che uso ancora oggi: CIOCCOLATO BIANCO di Acquolina. L’incenso è appena accennato, quasi impercettibile: lo dice una che di solito non ama le note incensate. Curiosamente, nella piramide olfattiva su Fragrantica non è riportato il cioccolato bianco, presente invece tra le note di fondo dichiarate sul sito ufficiale di Jousset — ma per me è la nota più evidente di tutta la fragranza. Ottima persistenza e proiezione ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️/5

I love it! I go bananas over gourmands lately. Smells like milky candies, smells like toffee, vanilla. The discrete incense I get is the Hinoki. I am very nostalgic of Japan and this particular smell is very well reproduced. It is not the "in your face" cheap incense sticks you find everywhere. It is very very special, hinoki. It is like just getting out from a Japanese temple, in a nice, warm autumn day. You sit quietly on a bench outside. You can still smell the serene incense from the temple and sip from a delicious caramel latte. I want to smell it over and over.

I love it, its a very good fragrance, it is just as described in the notes. I can smell the caramel, a very sweet toffee caramel, with a lactonic or buttery touch, and then there is that smoky touch of incense and leather. It is has nice sillage and longevity. I am happy. I don't usually like leather in perfumery, but in general the incense and leather in this one give the caramel and the sweet part that interesting and different touch. It doesn't bother me, I feel that it elevates the fragrance. It is an interesting gourmand. I recommend trying it!

This smells like delicious, lactonic, sticky, toffee to me. It’s rich, creamy, a little smoky, I don’t get any leather or ANY spoiled milk thank God. Maybe these people are using this in the middle of summer? I’ve made that mistake before. Or they just smell it differently. Luckily, my skin likes this perfume. I find that lactonic notes do well for me but on other’s they can go sour. Yes, on me this is just delicious super buttery toffee. Yum!

I can't believe the bad reviews - this definitely doesn't smell like sour milk or sweet yoghurt... I blind- bought it and was absolutely delighted to find out it's just a sweeter version of MILK by Commodity! The smoke and incense are ever so light - it's quite gourmand and dense: mg boyfriend said it's his fave on me! If you like sweet dense lactonic scents that last- go for it !

This is a great gourmand. It is like a caramel sundae and will render compliments. On it's own it can be considered too sweet unless you love sweet fragrances and are partial to gourmands. However, it is exceptional as a layering choice. I layered with Baroanda by Nassomato and it blended into a nutty textured buttery sweet sundae. Absolutely wonderful on a cold day.

Wow this is good. It's super sticky sweet caramel and toffee is utterly mouth watering. Just sprayed my sample on myself, will edit this review later for update. 4 hours later and I can still smell it. OMG it's good. I love this!! I WILL OWN THIS at some point. Worth buying. 100%

This smells like a creamy luxurious milky caramel. The scent changes and at times I smell incense and something like a coffee creamer. This is fire.

Just a beautiful mix of gourmand and laconic notes. It’s very unique yet easy to wear. It’s sweet milky and smoky in the best way.

Decluttering this for $80. Only used once let me know if you’re interested to buy it. SOLD

First sampling from Jousset Parfums, Gourmand Bakhoor, a fittingly sweet fragrance with a good reputation that I was keen to get my nose on. And sweet, it is: upon first spray, it’s really a powerful sugary, doughy, milky mix that smells of baked goods, with vague hints of caramel, vanilla, and chocolate, and resinous undertones (the bakhoor itself). I do not detect the listed leather note, but still, the effect is one of a nearly full gourmand, even there are non-food notes as well. There’s some nuance to Gourmand Bakhoor but it feels intense, almost blunt, an olfactory overload of sweets that, while a bit varied, is still almost overwhelming. It’s quite loud in the opening and remains fairly dense on skin thereafter, so there’s no knocking its performance, but the scent does not dazzle me overall, especially since there are vibrant/realistic gourmand offerings that are superior from Hilde Soliani and Kyse Perfumes, and at better prices, no less. Still, Gourmand Bakhoor and other Jousset Parfums offerings are sold by Sealed Essence and Luckyscent in the US, and Gourmand Bakhoor itself is among the more affordable offerings from Jousset Parfums, with retail pricing at $95 for 50ml in extrait concentration, very reasonable in today’s market, in my opinion. So while it does not strike me as a superb gourmand offering, it’s certainly worth trying, especially for gourmand fans, but even those who might generally shy away from gourmands might like it quite a bit. 7 out of 10

This is a lovely, if linear, gourmand. It smells like very sweet, almost sharp buttery toffee. I don’t really get the promised lactonic note beyond a richer, deeper toffee effect. There *is* smoke, incense, and leather here, but it’s all very smooth, well-blended, and tucked low in the profile. The result enriches the scent rather than pulling it into church or saddle territory. Personally, I’d prefer a bit more of that church and saddle. I can see why some people skip over the Bakhoor entirely and focus on the gourmand side. Still, it’s very easy to wear, more sophisticated than the Cheirosas it sometimes gets compared to. The sweetness feels mood-lifting, even though its tone is on the darker side. There is something skirting overly synthetic to one of the accords, I would recommend not blind buying for this reason. The longevity is beastly.

It is extremely sweet, cloying, and creamy. The scent resembles a milk caramel candy, similar to “La Vaquita”—a hard yet chewy sweet made of milk and caramel, intensely sugary. The sweetness is very pronounced, so you really need to enjoy caramel notes to appreciate this fragrance. The main drawback is its high price relative to its performance. On my skin, it lasted approximately 6 hours. During the first two hours, the projection is moderate; afterward, it becomes very intimate, staying close to the skin until it nearly fades away. Overall, I believe there are better options available on the market, especially in terms of longevity and value for money.

First of all I have to say Jeremy who owns the company was so helpful in helping me out with my order, so I really love the company for that alone! I have to say this was not as strong as I expected for an extrait de parfum (sillage was quite weak on me, but it does last). I also would’ve like to smell a little more of the bakhoor and the leather smokiness, but to me it smells a little simple. I've had my bottle for about a week and I think if I leave it to mature a little in the bottle, it should improve, so I will update my review! I can see this being great for layering though.

A gigantuous pile of caramel sauce or toffee, dipped in and absorbed a lot of milk... When I first took a sniff of it, I was like yeahhh let's buy it, it's soooo delicious and gourmand...it indeed is, but can be a bit too much, overwhelming, cloying. Even some gourmand lovers will be on the fence about it! I made 2 of my acquiantances have a sniff of my hand when I sprayed on it and both asked me if it was stale? It has never occurred to me, I only feel the caramel and milk in it...not for everyone, that's for sure!

Received my FB earlier this week and smells totally different than my bottle from 21'. I get the Play-doh note right off the bat. I also get a slight peach nuance as well. Creamy caramel and coffee notes show up during the deep dry-down. I will let it sit until next Fall/Winter as I purchased it on the Jousset website for around $75 bucks, so no biggie there. I had to do the same thing will A a la V Madeline de Proust and it is such a beautiful and long-lasting scent now.

This is a great gourmand! The dominant scent in this is condensed milk! Also, I feel some nice black tea in it. Like if you were having some tea with biscuits. It is very sweet, rich, sticky, milky and also salty, like salted caramel at the same time. Also, a slight bit of nutmeg. I do really like it, the initial blast is pretty strong and it does last, only though it does so by staying pretty close to skin :)