Gourmands are dessert you wear: chocolate, caramel, coffee, praline, vanilla, the edible end of perfumery. The family was effectively invented in the nineties when Angel put candy floss and patchouli in the same bottle, and it has been the compliment-magnet category ever since. The line between delicious and cloying is thin, so the best gourmands cut their sugar with something adult: bitter coffee, dark woods, boozy fruit. La Vie Est Belle is the polished mainstream take, Lost Cherry the indulgent one, and Tobacco Vanille the version for people who want dessert with a cigar. Cold weather is non-negotiable here, and so is a light trigger finger: two sprays of a good gourmand outlast six of anything fresh.