Madeleine

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Madeleine evokes the warm, buttery fluff of a just-baked French sponge, dusted with powdered sugar, with vanilla, almond, and a fleeting zest of lemon or orange-blossom water; it smells tender, airy, and comfortingly gourmand. Perfumers treat it as a fantasy pastry accord, built from vanillic notes, almondy heliotropin/benzaldehyde facets, maltol/ethyl maltol, creamy lactones, and soft musks; it’s used to add cozy, edible warmth to florals, woods, and ambers, typically in the heart-to-base to give enveloping sweetness.

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