saccharine

Of or relating to sugar; sugary.

Containing a large or excessive amount of sugar.

Excessively sweet in action or disposition, especially if romantic or sentimental to the point of ridiculousness; sickly sweet, syrupy.

Resembling granulated sugar; saccharoid.

Something which is saccharine or sweet; sugar.

Sentimentalism.

If Captain Archie Blaine regarded these outpourings as so much adolescent saccharine he never revealed it by a single word, a smile or the flicker of an eye.

Of or relating to saccharin (“a white, crystalline powder, C₇H₅NO₃S, used as an artificial sweetener in food products”).