Fragrance Note
Cinnamon
Cinnamon adds warm, sweet-spicy depth · often paired with vanilla in gourmands, with leather in masculine compositions, and with rose in oriental florals.
About Cinnamon
True cinnamon (Cinnamomum verum) and cassia (Cinnamomum cassia) yield steam-distilled bark oils with similar but distinct profiles · true cinnamon is more delicate, cassia warmer and spicier. Most commercial fragrance uses cassia. The molecule cinnamic aldehyde drives the characteristic "cinnamon" aroma. Cinnamon is regulated under IFRA standards because of skin sensitisation, so formulations work within strict thresholds. It anchors Tom Ford Tobacco Vanille, Hermès Ambre Narguilé, and most modern "oriental spicy" compositions.
Featured in 5 The Fragrance World perfumes
Common questions about Cinnamon
- What does Cinnamon smell like?
- Cinnamon adds warm, sweet-spicy depth · often paired with vanilla in gourmands, with leather in masculine compositions, and with rose in oriental florals.
- Where does Cinnamon come from?
- Sri Lanka (true), Indonesia (cassia), Vietnam
- Is Cinnamon a top, heart, or base note?
- Heart
- Which TFW fragrances feature Cinnamon?
- 5 TFW fragrances currently feature Cinnamon. See the list on this page for the full set.





