Sugar DaddySpicy Chypre Extrait de Parfum

Sugar Daddy by Fugazzi is a niche perfume extract that is spicy, chypre, and hesperidic, and unisex. The name promises sugar; the formula contains none.

A fake word that means fake

FUGAZZI is a Dutch house from Amsterdam, founded in 2018 by Bram Niessink, whose imagination was sparked during a trip to Egypt with his grandfather. The name comes from fugazi, an Italian-American slang word from the 1970s meaning "fake", adopted by youth culture and movie mobsters: writing it with a double Z makes it a fake word that means fake. The house calls its approach "Storysmelling". Each formula also contains two patented odorless plant ingredients, whose combination aims to reduce feelings of nervousness and tension. The Extrait line boasts 30 to 50% fragrance oil, compared to 20% for eaux de parfum.

An opening of mandarin and blackcurrant

Mandarin and bergamot open with a crisp citrus. Blackcurrant adds its dark, green, and tart fruit — the only fruity note in the perfume, and it is nothing sweet.

A heart of nutmeg and ambergris

Nutmeg and clove establish the spicy warmth, while jasmine is a discreet white flower. White ambergris is the remarkable material of this layer: mineral and saline, it is rarely used in the heart rather than in the base.

A base of oakmoss and patchouli

Oakmoss and patchouli form the classic chypre accord: damp, foresty, earthy. Cashmere wood softens it with a creamy woody note.

The house's gesture

The title lies, and that is the house's principle. "Sugar Daddy" announces a gourmand; the formula is a true chypre, built on the citrus-oakmoss-patchouli accord that has defined the family for a century. Not a single sweet material is featured in it. At a house whose name means "fake", the gap between the label and the contents is not an accident: it is the method.

For whom, for what occasions?

Spicy, chypre, and hesperidic, this extract is aimed at lovers of chypre, a genre that has become rare since the restrictions on oakmoss. From autumn to spring, by day as well as by night. It is the most classic construction, and the one whose name is the most misleading.

With Sugar Daddy Fugazzi, a gourmand name covers a chypre without a trace of sugar.