Vanilla Custard Base
Premium Base Ingredient for Perfumery
Vanilla Custard Base is a synthetic fragrance base created to emulate the smooth, creamy sweetness of American-style vanilla custard. Combining classic vanilla lactones, sweet balsamic notes, and soft milky nuances, this base delivers a comforting, dessert-like aroma ideal for gourmand compositions. It functions primarily at the heart-to-base level, providing roundness, warmth, and longevity in fine fragrance, personal care, and body mist applications.
Premium Base Ingredient for Perfumery
Vanilla Custard Base is a synthetic fragrance base created to emulate the smooth, creamy sweetness of American-style vanilla custard. Combining classic vanilla lactones, sweet balsamic notes, and soft milky nuances, this base delivers a comforting, dessert-like aroma ideal for gourmand compositions. It functions primarily at the heart-to-base level, providing roundness, warmth, and longevity in fine fragrance, personal care, and body mist applications.
Premium Base Ingredient for Perfumery
Vanilla Custard Base is a synthetic fragrance base created to emulate the smooth, creamy sweetness of American-style vanilla custard. Combining classic vanilla lactones, sweet balsamic notes, and soft milky nuances, this base delivers a comforting, dessert-like aroma ideal for gourmand compositions. It functions primarily at the heart-to-base level, providing roundness, warmth, and longevity in fine fragrance, personal care, and body mist applications.
Base Ingredient Overview
📝 Odor Type: Gourmand, Sweet, Lactonic
📈 Odor Strength: Medium
👃🏼 Odor Profile: Sweet vanilla, creamy custard, milky, warm, soft balsamic undertones
⚗️ Uses: Gourmand enhancer, creamy heart note, base rounder
🧴 Appearance: Pale yellow to amber liquid
What is Vanilla Custard Base?
Vanilla Custard Base is a preformulated fragrance compound developed to replicate the indulgent aroma of classic vanilla custard. This type of base typically includes vanillin, ethyl vanillin, maltol or ethyl maltol, and lactones (such as γ-nonalactone) to construct a profile that balances sweetness, smoothness, and creamy volume.
Unlike pure vanillin or natural vanilla extract, Vanilla Custard Base is designed to offer a rounder, more complexolfactory structure, mimicking both the richness of baked desserts and the softness of dairy-like textures. It performs especially well in gourmand fragrances that aim to evoke comfort, indulgence, or nostalgic familiarity.
Olfactory Profile and Perfumery Applications
Vanilla Custard Base is characterized by its warm, creamy heart and soft evolution into a comforting drydown. Key application areas include:
Gourmand perfumes: Where it builds volume and density behind caramel, tonka, or nutty notes
Floral-gourmand hybrids: Especially with jasmine, heliotrope, or orange blossom
Body care products: Offering a soft, sweet scent in mists, lotions, or creams
Fruity blends: Harmonizes well with fig, coconut, peach, and berry bases for dessert-like effects
Its moderate diffusion and tenacity make it suitable as a fixative-like base, smoothing transitions between brighter fruity tops and deeper balsamic notes.
Additional Information
Blending Suggestions:
Synergizes with tonka bean base, milky notes, benzoin resinoid, and creamy musks for enhanced roundness. Can be brightened with citrus aldehydes or softened with ambrettolide and coumarin for complex layering.
Application Compatibility:
Oil- and alcohol-soluble; performs well in both fine fragrance formats and emulsion-based products such as creams or shampoos.
Sources
Scentspiracy Internal Archive – Gourmand Base Development Notes
Arctander, S. (1969). Vanilla and Lactonic Materials in Perfumery
Fragrance Materials Handbook – Sweet and Balsamic Profiles (2021–2024)
Independent formulation studies on vanillin-based dessert profiles
