Bonbon

The house classes Bonbon among the floral amber gourmands. Caramel is present from top to base: crunchy and edible at the start, softer and milky midway through its development, darker at the base, where it adds depth.

Top

The house’s French page cites only mandarin essence at the top. The notes announced at launch added orange and peach, which Robin, of Now Smell This, smells mostly in the early stages.

Heart

The heart rests on orange blossom absolute, with jasmine. The 2014 notes also placed caramel there; the house now places it at the base, in the form of an accord.

Base

To the caramel, the launch description adds cedar, guaiac wood, sandalwood and amber. Michelyn Camen (CaFleureBon) notes an unexpected, sharp cedar, before a woody, sugary base deeper than she expected.

What the label declares

The ingredient list published by the house for France has twenty entries. After alcohol, fragrance and water come three UV filters, ethylhexyl methoxycinnamate, butyl methoxydibenzoylmethane and ethylhexyl salicylate, as well as an antioxidant, BHT.

It declares twelve regulated allergens, including hydroxycitronellal, coumarin, citronellol and farnesol, and a violet colorant, CI 60730. No natural essence is named. The house’s British and American pages publish a shorter list, which carries a yellow colorant.