Apple Pie
Note Profile
About
Apple Pie is a gourmand accord. It is cooked apple over a buttery pastry crust, with cinnamon, nutmeg and clove between them. Apple sits on top, baking spice in the middle, and butter, vanilla and crust in the base. That base is what separates it from the fruit-led apple accords. No extracted material exists behind the term. It is composed.
Scent Profile
Apple Pie smells of cooked apple, sliced and tart rather than raw peel. A buttery, creamy pastry crust runs underneath it, thick enough to earn its own place in the note. A sweet, vanilla warmth binds the two together. Through the middle runs a baking spice of cinnamon, nutmeg and clove, with a faint tart, green apple edge and a doughy, nutty hint in the crust.
ScentWheel
Read off the wheel, not a label applied to the note.
ScentArt
Origin
There is no raw material called apple pie. The accord is built, and the two fragrance-oil houses that publish its structure build it from the same three layers. Aroma Retail lists top: sliced red apple; middle: nutmeg, cinnamon and clove; base: crust accord and butter. Midwest Fragrance lists top: apple; middle: cinnamon; base: vanilla and bakery dough.
Usage in Perfumery
Used in gourmand and autumn-dessert compositions where a fresh apple note would read too thin and sharp. The butter and vanilla in the base give it a body that plain apple does not have. It sits close to two notes already published here, baked-apple and dried-apple-crisp, so a composition that wants the pastry rather than the fruit or the crumble should use this one.
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Perfumes featuring Apple Pie
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