Fruity

Fruity

Orchard and berry fruit, sweet and juicy

fruity 337 notes 1,390 materials 19 anchors

What it smells like

Apple, pear, peach, plum, raspberry, blackcurrant. This is the flesh of the fruit rather than its skin: sugar, juice and a faint fermenting edge. The soft lactonic side of peach sits at one end and the sharp green bite of blackcurrant at the other.

Where it stops

Fruity is neither Citrus nor Tropical. The dividing lines are bitterness for citrus and creaminess for tropical.

Smells most like

berries - and in the same register, red apple, red fruits.

Notes that load on it

Notes from our catalogue whose position on this facet is 0.40 or higher, strongest first. A note is not filed under one facet: it carries a value on all 34 at once, and these are the ones where this axis is doing real work.

Materials that carry it

Real substances, each keyed by its CAS registry number, that an external perfumery vocabulary publishes with a term meaning this facet outright. This is the layer that makes a facet checkable against something outside our own database.

Materials carrying this facet, with registry number, source terms and regulatory status
Material CAS Terms Status
hexyl isobutyrate CAS 2349-07-7 apple, berry, fruity, grape, peach, pear
propyl heptanoate CAS 7778-87-2 apple, fruity, grape, pear, strawberry, tutti frutti
heptyl 2-methylpropanoate CAS 2349-13-5 apple, apricot, cherry, estery, fruity, peach
4,4,7a-trimethyl-6,7-dihydro-5H-1-benzofuran-2-one CAS 15356-74-8 apricot, berry, fruit tropical fruit, fruity, grape, plum
apritone CAS 68133-79-9 apricot, fruity, jammy, peach, plum
damascenone CAS 23696-85-7 apple, fruity, grape, plum, raspberry Declarable IFRA
isobutyl butyrate CAS 539-90-2 apple, berry, cherry, fruity, tutti frutti
neryl isobutyrate CAS 2345-24-6 fruity, pear, raspberry, strawberry, tutti frutti
isoamyl isobutyrate CAS 2050-01-3 apple, cherry, estery, fruity, grape
(e)-hex-3-enyl valerate CAS 35852-46-1 apple, estery, fruity, grape, pear
2-phenylethyl 3-methylbutanoate CAS 140-26-1 apple, apricot, fruity, peach, tutti frutti
4-methylpentan-2-yl (E)-but-2-enoate CAS 35206-51-0 apple, fruity, grape, pear, plum
ethyl 2-ethyl-3-methyl-3-phenyloxirane-2-carboxylate CAS 19464-94-9 berry, fruity, jammy, raspberry, strawberry
hexyl octanoate CAS 1117-55-1 apple, berry, estery, fruity
methyl valerate CAS 624-24-8 apple, estery, fruity, tutti frutti
butyl propionate CAS 590-01-2 cherry, estery, fruity, tutti frutti
geranyl butyrate CAS 106-29-6 apricot, fruity, peach, raspberry
methyl hexanoate CAS 106-70-7 apricot, fruit tropical fruit, fruity, strawberry
neryl propionate CAS 105-91-9 berry, fruity, jammy, tutti frutti
pentyl hexanoate CAS 540-07-8 apple, estery, fruity, pear
butyl isovalerate CAS 109-19-3 apple, fruity, peach, pear
ethyl isovalerate CAS 108-64-5 apple, estery, fruity, tutti frutti
isopentyl formate CAS 110-45-2 apple, estery, fruity, plum
piperonyl acetone CAS 55418-52-5 berry, fruity, jammy, raspberry
beta-ionyl acetate CAS 22030-19-9 berry, jammy, raspberry, strawberry
butyl anthranilate CAS 7756-96-9 berry, fruity, grape, plum
isoamyl propionate CAS 105-68-0 apple, estery, fruit tropical fruit, fruity
maltol isobutyrate CAS 65416-14-0 berry, fruity, jammy, strawberry
methyl isovalerate CAS 556-24-1 apple, estery, fruity, tutti frutti
propyl isobutyrate CAS 644-49-5 berry, estery, fruity, tutti frutti

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Reading the two flags

Declarable means the substance appears in Annex III of the EU Cosmetics Regulation, so it has to be named on the ingredient list once it passes a concentration threshold. IFRA means an IFRA Standard restricts or prohibits its use. Both are facts about the substance, not about any fragrance: a perfume can contain a declarable material below the threshold and never print it, and a restricted material used within its limit is used correctly.

The source also supplies no common name for a large share of materials, so those display as a bare registry number and are ranked last. They are kept because they are real evidence: dropping them would make the vocabulary look better described than it is.

Anchor terms

A facet on its own is just a word we chose. An anchor is what makes it checkable: a term in an external, independently maintained vocabulary of odour descriptions, built for perfumery materials rather than for us. The material list above is drawn from the direct terms only, because a partial term corroborates too weakly to stand as evidence on its own.

Direct Terms that mean this facet outright
  • apple
  • apricot
  • berry
  • black currant
  • cherry
  • cherry, berry
  • estery
  • fruit tropical fruit
  • fruity
  • fruity,citrus
  • fruity,other than citrus
  • grape
  • jammy
  • peach
  • pear
  • plum
  • raspberry
  • strawberry
  • tutti frutti
Partial Terms that lean this way but also load elsewhere
  • chamomile
  • juicy
  • ripe

The rest of Fruity

The other facets in this family. A note can load on any of them at the same time as this one, so they are neighbours rather than alternatives.

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