Apple Shisha Accord
Note Profile
About
A composed accord that puts crisp apple on top of warm, dark, sweetened tobacco. It reads as the smell of flavoured hookah smoke: humid, lightly caramelised, honeyed, and spiced with anise or cinnamon. The fruit is a top layer, not the body. Both sources describing it are consumer note glossaries, not perfume houses.
Scent Profile
Apple Shisha Accord smells of warm, dark tobacco with crisp apple laid over the top. Sweet, lightly caramelised molasses runs through it, honeyed and humid like the smoke from a flavoured hookah. A smoky edge sits underneath. Cinnamon-warm spice and a liquorice-like herbal note from anise round out the finish, closer to spiced tobacco than to real apple.
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ScentArt
Origin
Synthetic and composed. No manufacturer sells a material under this name and no source names the aroma chemicals used to build it. The real-world reference is mu'assel, the molasses-soaked flavoured tobacco smoked in a water pipe, and specifically the 'double apple' blend. Mimya notes that double apple is 'famous for not actually smelling like apples' and is carried by anise or licorice instead, so the accord's name describes what perfumers build rather than what the tobacco smells like.
Usage in Perfumery
A gourmand-oriental accord used to add smoke and sweetness. The apple keeps the top edible and bright while the tobacco and caramelised smoke carry the drydown.
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