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Ariana Grande describes a vanilla-kissed daydream: spun sugar, a fluffy musk and juicy blackcurrant wrap around vanilla-dipped petals and cozy woods, and a touch of smoky vanilla and golden amber completes the daydream.

Spun sugar, vanilla and blond woods

The notes are arranged here as follows: spun sugar, musk and blackcurrant at the top; sandalwood in the heart; vanilla, amber and woods at the base. For the house, the musk is fluffy, the base vanilla smoky and the woods blond.

Sandalwood is joined there by vanilla-glazed petals, an accord whose flower the house does not name. Among the notes it highlights are spun sugar, vanilla-glazed petals, blond woods and amber crystals.

What the label declares

The list opens with alcohol, fragrance and water, ahead of citric acid and triethanolamine, which adjust the formula’s acidity. Next come acetyl cedrene, a woody note derived from cedar, alpha-isomethyl ionone, with a violet scent, and benzyl salicylate.

It also lists bitter orange peel oil, two synthetic musks, hexadecanolactone and hexamethylindanopyran, tetramethyl acetyloctahydronaphthalenes, a woody, ambery molecule, and trimethylcyclopentenyl methylisopentenol, with sandalwood facets.

Vanillin, the molecule that carries the scent of vanilla, closes the list, behind limonene, linalool, linalyl acetate, geranyl acetate and rose ketones. No colorant appears in it.