Got Milk? (reviewing the expressive edp variant, by Commodity)

"In creating Milk, I was inspired by the memory of a family vacation in the Fall, when we spent hours around hot wood-fires, telling stories and making s’mores. I wanted to capture the intimate nostalgia of this moment in a fragrance" - Christelle Laprade

Seeking comfort in the familiar, this creamy and calming scent offers the perfect start to the day. Cold Milk adds a cooling element to an otherwise rich and warm fragrance of Marshmallow, Mahogany, and Tonka Bean.

During the last couple of years I've received a couple of the 10ml Milk fragrance pens in beauty advent calendars and Christmas gift sets and I was expecting another fragrance pen from the Glossybox 2025 advent calendar too, so I was surprised to find a 30ml bottle instead of the expected pen. I remember liking the scent, but I qhave habit of losing perfume pens which happened with both of my Milk ones, therefore I was really chuffed with finally getting a bottle - Commodity fragrances aren't cheap. 

I'm looking forward to a deeper dive into my first full-sized Commodity fragrance...

🚨 The limited edition Glossybox For Mum Edit contains a 30ml bottle of the Commodity J̌uice fragrance - the six-piece gift set actually costs less than a 30ml bottle alone, and then you have the other individually packaged items which make perfect gifts for others 🚨

 

For me Milk opens with the toasted sesame and a undertone of burning wood, so it's not opening with the promised cooling feeling. I do detect a creamy lactonic accord, but it is light, fleeting, and not particularly 'cool'.

I can't seperate any floral notes out of this fragrance, so people who don't like floral fragrances need to remember Milk. The wood notes deepen and are accompanied with a very authentic gooey marshmallow accord, which isboosted up with benzoin - this intense combination of woods & marshmallow is very longwearing and lasts throughout the fragrances wear, which makes Milk quite linear, apart from a quiet breeze of tonka bean in the final stretch. 

The longevity is very good for the price - not great, but certainly not anywhere close to 'bad'. I'd give an average weartime between eight to nine hours for Milk, with an medium projection, that never becomes closer to the skin.  

Officially listed scent notes: Milk, Toasted Sesame, Marshmallow, Benzoin, Mahogany and Tonka Bean.

I don't really get the name; Milk doesn't give me any hints of the promised coolness, and is actually a smoky fragrance, rich in gooey marshmallow, so the s'mores & campfires comes to my mind immediately and I just think Milk?¡

Anyway; this is a perfect unisex fragrance, that perfectly balances traditionally feminine gourmand notes with traditionally masculine burning wood accords, for a easy to wear fragrance, perfect for the cooler months. I enjoy it and hope that the smaller bottles become easier to find, because I don't adore it enough to pay for the larger bottle.

 

You can buy Commodity fragrances from Sephora, Space NK, Liberty, Harvey Nichols and Cult Beauty, as well as from the Commodity site.

10ml perfume pens are £30, 30ml bottles are £68 and 100ml bottles are £140 - I have only noticed the 30ml bottles on the Commodity site - are they so popular that other retailers can't keep them in stock?