The Story
Why it exists.
The beginning
Liquorish arrived in 2025 as part of Aroma Studium's Chef Collection. The premise here is straightforward: licorice as a flavor. Turkish rose adds a floral character, while aged black rum brings the low, fermented warmth associated with a drink poured at the end of a long evening. Orange contributes brightness, and roasted coffee grounds the composition in something darker and less childlike. No perfumer is credited in the available information, so the composition stands on its own terms. What makes Liquorish worth noticing isn't that it smells like a sweet. It's that it smells like the version of that sweet you'd order after the bar lights come up.
The interesting decision sits in the heart. Roasted coffee and cardamom sit alongside rose and rum, creating a distinctive combination of soft spice, wood, sweetness, citrus, floral, and anis. Coffee introduces a darker, roasted character that brings depth to the licorice accord. Cardamom adds its own aromatic spice, contrasting with the rum's warmth and the rose's floral quality. Together, these notes give the composition breadth, connecting food-like and drink-like impressions within a single scent.
The evolution
The composition brings together orange, aged rum, Turkish rose, roasted coffee, cardamom, black licorice, amber, and cedarwood. Orange adds a bright, lightly bitter accent, while the rum contributes warmth and a fermented character. Turkish rose introduces a floral dimension that sits beside the darker roasted notes of coffee and the aromatic spice of cardamom. Black licorice supplies an aniseed accent across the fragrance, connecting the sweeter and more aromatic materials. Amber and cedarwood provide a warm, woody base beneath the brighter top notes and deeper heart notes. The result reads as a layered fragrance: woody, faintly spiced, floral, and unmistakably licorice, with sweetness tempered by coffee, citrus, spice, and the dry character of cedarwood.
Cultural impact
Liquorish brings together several distinct scent families: the sweetness of licorice, the brightness of orange, the floral character of Turkish rose, the fermented warmth of aged rum, the roasted depth of coffee, the aromatic spice of cardamom, and the woody base of cedarwood and amber. That combination makes the fragrance notable within the Chef Collection. The roasted coffee and rum add darker, more mature dimensions to an accord that otherwise centers on a confectionery note, while rose and orange keep the composition varied.
