Cinnamon Sugar
An accord evoking cinnamon mixed with sugar, giving fragrances a warm, bakery-like sweetness.
Gourmand
About Cinnamon Sugar
Cinnamon Sugar isn't a single material drawn from one plant. It's an accord, a blend of aroma materials composed to suggest the familiar kitchen mix of ground cinnamon and sugar, the kind you'd dust over buttered toast or a warm doughnut.
Scent Profile
Picture the woody, faintly peppery bite of cinnamon softened by a **cozy sweetness**. Rather than trying to copy sugar itself, the accord draws out the warm, sweet side of the spice, so the overall impression lands somewhere between a spice jar and a tray of something just out of the oven.
Use in Perfumery
You'll find it in gourmand, spicy and ambery compositions, where it often acts as the bridge between spice and sweetness. Set beside allspice, nutmeg or clove, it can take on a chai-like depth; paired with vanilla or milky notes, it turns rounder and creamier. Some perfumers let it surface in the heart, after brighter spices have opened the composition.
Did You Know?
Culinary cinnamon is tree bark. Peeled away in thin strips and left to dry, it curls into the familiar sticks, which are then ground into the powder that goes into everyday cinnamon sugar.
