Fruity

Tropical

Coconut, pineapple, mango, and the smell of sun cream

tropical 70 notes 546 materials 8 anchors

What it smells like

Held apart from Fruity because it behaves differently on skin. Tropical fruit carries lactones, which are creamy and milky rather than juicy. That texture drags the whole facet toward the gourmand and toward the woods.

Where it stops

Tropical shares lactones with Creamy Wood and with Vanilla. That is why coconut can read as a wood or as a dessert, depending entirely on what sits beside it.

Smells most like

pineapple - and in the same register, genipapo, allyl hexanoate.

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
isoamyl propionate CAS 105-68-0 banana, fruit tropical fruit, pineapple, tropical
methyl 2-cyclohexylacetate CAS 14352-61-5 banana, mango, pineapple, tropical
methyl (2s)-2-methylpentanoate CAS 151409-53-9 banana, melon, pineapple, tropical
2-methyl-4-propyl-1,3-oxathiane CAS 67715-80-4 fruit tropical fruit, passion fruit, pineapple, tropical
butyl butyrate CAS 109-21-7 banana, fruit tropical fruit, pineapple
pentyl butyrate CAS 540-18-1 banana, pineapple, tropical
methyl hexanoate CAS 106-70-7 banana, fruit tropical fruit, pineapple
butyl isobutyrate CAS 97-87-0 banana, melon, tropical
pentyl propionate CAS 624-54-4 banana, pineapple, tropical
isobutyl isobutyrate CAS 97-85-8 banana, fruit tropical fruit, pineapple
2,8-epithio-p-menthane CAS 68398-18-5 mango, passion fruit, tropical
ethyl 4,7-octadienoate CAS 72276-09-6 mango, passion fruit, pineapple
ethyl (z)-hept-4-enoate CAS 39924-27-1 passion fruit, pineapple, tropical
[(Z)-hept-3-enyl] acetate CAS 1576-78-9 banana, passion fruit, tropical IFRA
isopropyl 2-methylbutyrate CAS 66576-71-4 coconut, pineapple, tropical
2-phenyl propyl isobutyrate CAS 65813-53-8 mango, pineapple, tropical
[(E)-oct-5-enyl] propanoate CAS 196109-18-9 banana, melon, tropical
(3S)-1-methoxyheptane-3-thiol CAS 400052-49-5 fruit tropical fruit, passion fruit, tropical
nectaryl CAS 95962-14-4 coconut, tropical
ethyl sorbate CAS 2396-84-1 pineapple, tropical
allyl butyrate CAS 2051-78-7 pineapple, tropical
butyl valerate CAS 591-68-4 pineapple, tropical
ethyl caproate CAS 123-66-0 banana, pineapple
allyl hexanoate CAS 123-68-2 pineapple, tropical
allyl octanoate CAS 4230-97-1 pineapple, tropical
benzyl butyrate CAS 103-37-7 pineapple, tropical
ethyl octanoate CAS 106-32-1 banana, pineapple
hexyl crotonate CAS 19089-92-0 pineapple, tropical
methyl butyrate CAS 623-42-7 banana, pineapple
allyl heptanoate CAS 142-19-8 banana, pineapple

Showing 30 of 546. The full set ships with the published standard rather than being paginated here.

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
  • banana
  • coconut
  • fruit tropical fruit
  • mango
  • melon
  • passion fruit
  • pineapple
  • tropical
Partial Terms that lean this way but also load elsewhere

None

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.

Keep going