Maple

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Maple smells like warm, syrupy sweetness—a rich, caramelized sugar accord with glossy gourmand facets and a subtle balsamic-woody underscore that can suggest toasted syrup, caramelized bark, or a faint smoky-amber warmth. It commonly evokes cozy breakfast imagery, late-autumn woods, and soft, edible comforts. In perfumery maple is used to impart sticky, gourmand roundness to Oriental and gourmand compositions, often blended with vanilla, tonka, benzoin, caramel or praline for sweetness and tempered by woods, smoke or spices to prevent cloying and add depth.

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