The Cookie Party

Im gunna be nice and tell you that.. this is what you imagine when you watch people review Bianco latte. Everything they say is this. This is what they led me to believe it would smell like. Actual bianco latte ? I could do without The reason why the below reviewers say it’s offensive is because in the beginning it way too strong... but that’s good. Really good. This perfume needs a day to settle, then you get the most perfect vanilla cookie gourmand cloud that feels unreal to wear hahah it’s so good. It was offensive at first sniff, too sweet syrupy.. cloying. But the residue left on my hands peaked my interest in the dry down.. I decided to rub a tiny bit of oil on my hands and tap my sleep shirt and ... the next couple of days I didn’t want to wear anything else. This is truly a hidden gem. These shine in the oil versions + dropper NOT the roller. A little goes a long way but the dropper is more efficient. I found my gourmand vanilla. To add; I too thought me and this house were a no go. The witches valentines smelled juvinile and the snow moon was barely there.. now I can’t get enough of either three.. and they’re very strong. Witches valentine is so likable and gorgeous barbie feminine in the dry down that also lingers for an eternity and snow moon is a dense buttery warm cloud that is so ideal for autumn winter. the house makes true extraits, so it’s at the dry down that these dense syrupy creations shine. So happy to stumble upon because I’m genuinely obsessed with 3/5 I’ve tried and it intrigues me to try them all.

This is NOT your usual gourmand fragrance. It’s worlds apart from viral offerings like BL and other niche, alcohol-based formulas from France and Italy. Instead, this is an indie oil-based formulation, elevated with a touch of perfumer’s alcohol for a beautifully wafting spray application. And let me just say—WOW! It’s amazing! Imagine opening a classic blue tin of Danish butter cookies, especially those sprinkled with coarse sugar. The sweetness is rich and nostalgic. As it dries down, a subtle coconut note begins to peek through, adding depth and warmth. I’ll admit, this house's offerings might be an acquired taste, not your typical "blind buy" or mass-appeal fragrances. But you know what? That’s perfectly fine—more for me!

it smells EXACTLY like chocolate chip cookies with marshmallows for me and i’m OBSESSED with it. such a delicious scent with the perfect amount of syrupy sweetness. i was so excited for the toffee note and unfortunately it doesn’t really come through for me but irregardless it’s still the perfect cookie scent and i can still smell it on me after 8+ hrs. as soon as the full bottle is back in stock i’m snatching it !! update: i smell the toffee!!!! so so good 10000/10

This one is on the chopping block! I'm going to revisit it in the fall/winter. I decluttered my Snow Moon Magic, so off memory, these are very similar. SMM is like an oatmeal cookie, The Cookie Party is more a buttery shortbread cookie. Both cookies and similar enough that you don't need both and I personally would go with SMM even though I decluttered it. Something about both of them just aren't sweet enough for me. I love smelling sticky sweet these days.

I grew up making condensed milk toffee with my family and this is incredibly photorealistic to the aroma of butter and creamy milk thickening to create the syrupy, saccharine candy. Although this is on the level of cloyingly sweet, the milk and butter ground it and it doesn't feel nauseating or overwhelming. It is the most comforting scent to wear in harshly cold winter days

very very sweet scent, smells like a buttery toffee cookie!! i got the oil and the sweetness is kind of sickening lol. on me, it starts off as a very heavy and warm toffee scent that will almost give you a headache, but then settles into a creamy nutty scent with lotssss of sugar. one of my favorite gourmand scents, this has to be THE gourmand scent ever 😭.

This is my favorite Sorce fragrance so far. I find it very addictive. It smells like those butter cookies with mounds of coconut, and extra butter added. I love it, but it's definitely something that needs to be tested before purchasing. It's the weirdest gourmand I own.

so so so yummy!! my favorite perfume that i own!! it’s sweet but not a headache sickly sweet, it’s warm and toasty and smells just like opening a tin of butter cookies. definitely recommend for cookie lovers!

smells SO much like Caramel Delites (Samoas)! :’) reminds me of being a child and selling Girl Scout cookies AND makes me hungry

Yummy! A buttery toffee on a bed of cookies and old fashioned vanilla ice cream.. 😁 So delectable to wear to bed, I’m obsessed

I really just can’t smell this :( I’m never noseblind to anything else so I’m confused

Salty shortbread cookies and coconut. Delicious and addictive!

This is a truly remarkable cookie scent. I love how beautifully realistic, not artificial or weird it is. Also it's really cookies in this one, with some saltiness too, and not some overly sweet like candy, which I do truly enjoy for a change, as a gourmand lover myself. I get a tiniest bit of cardboard box which the cookies come in and it is a super nice touch actually, don't be frightened at all, it is bsrely noticeable. Performance is solid, not overpowering, just lovely. So cozy too!

See, I personally like this fragrance, but you have to really like a true gourmand scent to like this one. The opening is buttery, sweet, and is more of a brown butter/brown sugar kind of sugary, not an airy, spun-sugar kind of sugary. I also get pecan. It smells like straight up calories in a bottle. To me it's a bit linear of a fragrance, though, so I'd want to layer it with other things--but it's quite strong a fragrance, so it tends to overpower whatever I layer with.

the opening of this is jarringly sweet, tooth achingly so, but the development of the scent is undeniably enjoyable. You get syrupy sweet toffee with creamy coconut that becomes more toned down in the dry down. Don’t get much of the cocoa or marshmallows but the dry down is pecan shortbread cookies, distinctly nutty, with remnants of that sweet toffee and coconut on top. If the opening wasn’t so abrasive I’d enjoy this a ton more

This perfume smells exactly like cookies - like *exactly*. That starchy, doughy vibe is captured perfectly. It's almost a little weird, how spot on it is. The "buttery baked goods" scent wears strangely on my skin, though. I almost get sick of the doughiness after a few minutes. I like layering this one with other scents to help round out how gourmand it is, and to transform other scents into cookies.

another hit from sorce. the toffee comes through the strongest for me, with an underlying cookie scent to it. it reminds me of the girlscout toffeetastics. staying power is alright, lasts about 4 hrs on my skin before needing to be reapplied. as time goes on the toffee fades and some of the marshmallow starts to come through.

A little bit of butter cookie with lots of toffee and pecan. On the drydown this smells EXACTLY like the vanilla brulee candle from DW home I had a while ago. Very vanilla-forward with a toffee-like, burnt/caramelized sugar note.

There is a cloying sweetness to this fragrance. It feels like you're being drowned in a stand mixer filled with sugary and buttery dough. I'm not the biggest fan of coconut but I like how it's done in Cookie Party.

First spray was good. Veeeerryyy gourmand. But now for some reason I’m smelling an overwhelming amount of clove?? It’s unfortunate but I just cannot stand that part. This kind of reminds me of Yog Nog by Lush.

True to name, it smells pretty much exactly how a chips ahoy cookie packet smells when you peel back the tab on the packaging. 7/10

Imagine inhaling the air of freshly baked shortbread cookies. This is VERY gourmand. 10/10

Butterrrrr. Yes, lots of it. Shortbread cookies, vanilla, and more butter.

This is a pretty photorealistic interpretation of those buttery biscuits you'll find in tins your grandma uses for sewing supplies. Unfortunately, this is too gourmand for me. The salt from the buttery biscuits comes across a bit too salty, so it ends up being a bit cloying and "popcorny". However, this is definitely my favourite out of this genre of scent, especially compared to something like Sol de Janeiro Cheirosa '71. (Please note this is a review for the IPM-based version, as I am Canadian)

This veers into candle territory for me. It's a very heavy sweet gourmand but there's something I think in the toffee note that gives an almost waxy synthetic vibe like a Yankee candle. I get this with a lot of caramel scents. I had to scrub this after an hour, it was just too cloying *EDIT: I think it's actually her cookie note that's giving me candle vibes. I have a sample of Snow Moon Magic and get the same vibe. It really projects and lasts so if you like it it's great but not for me

The smells exactly like the inside of a fudge shop on Mackinac Island in Michigan. It smells like that vanilla buttery fudge that’s almost a little bit burnt somehow. While I like it, it might be something that I would layer more than to buy as a standalone fragrance. It’s very very gourmand. I definitely want to eat it, but I don’t know if I 100% want to smell like it.

I really wanted to love this fragrances and by the notes alone I should have. But I get a weird smell from it if I smell it up close. Smelling it from a distance is somewhat pleasant but for some reason smelling it close on my skin, it gives off almost a sour note. I guess this doesn’t work with my chemistry.

so, so yummy but the coconut doesn't wear very well on my skin in particular... this is definitely a gourmand girl's dream and would make for the perfect cozy fall scent! in some ways, reminds me of sticky dates from lush, but if it was baked and sprinkled with toasted coconut flakes

WOW is it sweet! It's very much a toffee smell. It's not bad but I definitely wouldn't put a ton on. If you do it will be almost sickly sweet. You get a very buttery, toffee, pudding type of smell up front. It's not caramel. Absolutely toffee. The cookie note is also very prominent.

it definitely reminds me of those shortbread cookies that came in round containers. i'm a gourmand lover but this a bit too buttery on my skin for my liking, and there's something i can't place that keeps it from smelling photorealistic. it was worth a try but not a love!

It’s definitely got that Sorce gourmand DNA. It reminds me of Match Made in Heaven, actually.. the sweet buttery cookie base. This one doesn’t have offensive flat play dough twang though, which makes this preferable.

Initially it smells very much like those butter cookies you eat as a child but in the drydown the marshmallow comes out and it becomes more rich and vanilla.

Biiiiig on the TOFFEE. Honestly not a very wearable gourmand. Smells nice just to sniff it but its honestly a bit overwhelming to actually wear.

mostly coconut. idk not as sweet as i thought it would be.

smells like a very artificial cookie dough lip balm

wow yeah this one is not for me, i definitely get something sour at the beginning, which i tried to tell myself was lemony like Akro Bake, but this was not that, and it also never went away. more tart and alum, like old pickles but with aldehyde. if it’s supposed to be buttery or salty, it’s neither of those things on me. there were no cookies here, sadly. so far haven’t found a sorce sample i would buy a full bottle of?. imo none of these are safe blind buys. (ETA: okay it IS less aggressive on drydown but the damage is done)

This is definitely a really unique gourmand, honestly, it smells like a body oil more than anything - not perfumey at all!! Unfortunately, my nose doesn't really pick up on any cookie or marshmallow; all I get is a really, really greasy coconut. This means the cookie party is not very wearable for me, but I am sure this would suit someone else's body chemistry. I will, however, revisit in the fall/winter just to see if the season has anything to do with how greasy this perfume feels on me.

Buttery toffee, has a distinct “food smell” very greasy and cloying. Same DNA as Yog Nog, Sticky Dates, LTGTR. If you wanna smell like this I recommend just getting one of those body sprays

Disgusting soured milk in the opening followed by rancid butter and toffee.

I’m not sure why but every single fragrance I’ve tried from this house has been deeply offensive to my nose. I have no other way to put it besides the sheer disgust I get when it invades my nostrils. this is just plain burnt toffee to me. I hate it. I hate it.

very strong toffee. the problem is, i don't know if i could actually call it wearable.

grossly buttery toffee this smells like every other tj maxx candle

The opening is off putting. It took a few days to pinpoint it..But eventually it came to me. There used to be a child's toy named "Super Elastic Bubble Plastic" that came with a metal tube (like a toothpaste tube), and a small straw. One would place a dab of the colored goo on one end of the straw and blow into the other end, resulting in a colorful bubble that would hold its shape. Looking into it, people used to huff it to get a high, which just points to the untethered nature of growing up in the 80's and 90's. But I digress. The plastic smell dies down very quickly and gives way to a toffee-ish note reminiscent of the toffee flavored syrup that cafe's might add to beverages. it is not photorealistic toffee, but the note it there. Then the lactonic, smells sweet and a bit creamy, transforming into a light coconut. Then a bit of jet puffed marshmallow and toasted pecans that gives way to a mild cookie like dry down, toffee still present. If one layers this by reapplying throughout the day, it develops into a nice buttery toffee cookie scent close to the skin. The projection is low and the sillage is very small. All of that being said, I adore the odd plastic note as it careens me into a deeply nostalgic memory. the idea of riding the wave of nostalgia into the scent as it develops led me to buying a 30ml bottle. I will use this as a stand alone or for layering. I will be searching for an intensely realistic scent that smells like warm chocolate chip cookies straight from the oven...this is not that but definitely has it's place on my shelf.

revisiting this a few months later now that it’s warmed up outside & i’m back into warm smelling fragrances. the toffee is quite strong initially, sickingly-sweet-sticky. but once it dries down the milk really cuts through and makes it a pleasantly-sweet-cozy. my complaint is the cocoa doesn’t show too well, it did during winter, during the winter, it smelt like a tray of sugar cookies & chocolate chip cookies baked in the same batch, but in the warmth it smells purely like madelines & vaguely like a pecan pie. like you walked into a bakery just as they were pulling a tray of madelines & ladyfingers from the ovens not long after pulling a pecan pie out. i think it’s a very lovely at home scent, not something i’d wear somewhere like walking down town, but i’d wear it while going to a friend’s house or a little house warming party.

it’s genuinely disgusting at first but give it time and it’s DELICIOUS. the initial on skin is just immediately way too oily, artificial-sweet, like terrible white chocolate. it’s so bad. after an hour it really brings out that marshmallow/milk note and that’s what shines. imo not a safe blind buy but if you’re willing to let it grow on you it’s so yummy

This is now one of my essential Christmas perfumes. I had a cousin notice how fantastic it smelled on Christmas Day in a house full of delicious things, it's so good. It smells exactly as described and not in a "kids' fake scented plastic toy kitchen cookie" that a lot of gourmands resemble. Can't wait to pull this out come winter.

the top definitely has some slightly savory/buttery cookie notes, but this has the same vanilla base as Match Made in Heaven to my nose, AKA super delicious, fluffy, addictive marshmallow but not exactly marshmallow. i can't describe exactly what it is but i can't stop wearing my sample of this and my full bottle of MMiH

honestly really disappointed by this one because i wanted to like it. not getting any cookie from this just a VERY overpowering toffee note that is sickening. like it's to the point where i cant pick up anything else. even on the dry down i can still smell just the toffee.

Smelled it, said “woah!” Smelled it again, those notes that wowed me had already conglomerated into a pretty average gourmand baked good scent. If that’s your jam, grab a sample. As for a full bottle, there’s lots of similar cheapies for less $$ and less wait haha

I love gourmands, but this one is too much for me. Too sweet, too cloying, oily; like somehow it smells even sweeter than when you open a new bag of white sugar. Sorce's other gourmands are much more wearable imho!