Collection: Butter Perfumes

Butter in perfume smells rich, creamy and slightly salty-sweet, like warm butter on fresh bread. On Scendira, 120+ perfumes list butter as a note, from about $13 to $949.

What a Butter Note Adds

A butter note is mostly composed, giving a fatty, milky creaminess that rounds off sweeter notes. Orris butter, the waxy extract of iris root, has a similar name but a powdery, cool and earthy smell, and it belongs to a different material. Here the focus is the edible, creamy kind of butter.

Among the perfumes people discuss in the communities Scendira tracks, Zeromolecole Biancolatte, Jousset Parfums Sticky Popcorn and Nobile 1942 Il Colore del Vento each list butter. Biancolatte and Sticky Popcorn list butter at the top, and Il Colore del Vento puts it in the base.

Suits: People who like rich, creamy gourmands. Skip if: rich, buttery gourmands read greasy or cloying on you.

Butter sits inside the gourmand perfumes family, and iris perfumes or caramel perfumes are close relatives.