This Fragrance Trend Takes Notes From Your Vegetable Garden (Literally)

Thanks to a current resurgence of gourmands in fragrance — a scent family containing all things indulgently sweet and edible — this new, post-Y2K take incorporates more varieties of flavor profiles, inspired by our cultural interests in wellness and the connection between scent experiences with our moods and well-being, as well as the influence of foodie culture. Eg. the closer a scent can be to a green juice, the more we reap the emotional benefits of feeling as though we’re gulping down a healthy green juice daily.

Of course, Diptyque would offer a scented candle in its cleaning product line. When burned at least 30 minutes before starting to cook (and left to linger for at least 30 minutes after dinner is served), this “odor-removing” candle works by swapping lingering cooking odors with its crisp basil, tomato, and mint bouquet. It’s a great companion candle for taco Tuesday, so you’re not left with the faint aroma of chorizo lingering well into taco Wednesday.

The humble vegetable garden gets a romance novel treatment with Officine Universelle Buly’s Le Jardin Français collection. These perfumes harvest tomato, mint, cucumber, carrot, watercress, basil, and rhubarb (among others) at their freshest, morning dew-sprinkled peak of ripeness. Rather than smelling like a deconstructed salad, each perfume highlights elements of its namesake plant with French perfumery’s classic accords to bring out the solar crispness of tomato, the subtle sweetness of beetroot, the tart brightness of rhubarb, and the dewy freshness of cucumber and mint, to name a few.

For vegetarians and vegans alike, this “savory gourmand” is a quirky take on a green, herbaceous scent. Green bell pepper, basil, and Mandarin citrus take center stage with an aquatic dry-down that’s sweetened by pear, pea flower, and mossy accords.