Apple Pie

Note Profile

Prepared

About

Apple Pie is a gourmand accord. It is cooked apple over a buttery pastry crust, with cinnamon, nutmeg and clove between them. Both trade sources build it the same way: apple on top, baking spice in the middle, butter 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

Fruity leads. Both sources put apple in the top and name it before anything else, and Aroma Retail names two kinds, 'Sliced Red Apple' and 'fresh and tart granny smith apples'. It is cooked fruit, not peel. Lactonic and it is the claim that earns this note its own row. Aroma Retail puts butter in the base, then repeats it twice in prose as 'buttery piecrust' and 'buttery pie crust scents with notes of creamy and cinnamon spice toppings'. That is a butter-and-cream character stated three times, well above the lactonic that baked-apple carries. Sweet_vanillic is also. Midwest names vanilla as a base note outright, and Aroma Retail's 'the sweetness of Buttery piecrust' reaches the same place from the other side. Warm_spice on the two sources agreeing: nutmeg, cinnamon and clove from one, cinnamon from the other, and both put the spice in the middle rather than the top. Below the naming line, sour for the tart Granny Smith, green for the same apples, and nutty for the 'sweet bakery dough' and 'crust accord'. Nutty is the closest facet in the 32 for baked pastry and it is a poor fit. Creamy_woody is zero here, but only because no source names it. Dried-apple-crisp carries 0.25 of it and nothing rules it out, so its spread is 0.14 rather than the floor.

ScentWheel

Breadthmedium

EnvelopeHeart · ~5h lasting

Family Fruity, Sweet & Gourmand, Spicy

Read off the wheel, not a label applied to the note.

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. Neither is a fine-perfumery manufacturer and neither publishes an olfactive-description sheet, so the whole vector rests on candle and soap supplier copy.

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.