Fruity

Bitter Cherry

Note Profile

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Bitter cherry is a dark cherry note with a strong pit-like bitterness. It smells of cherry fruit and bitter almond together, with less candy sweetness than the standard cherry note. The name is rare on perfume lists. Parfumo records 1 perfume with it on 2026-10-10.

Scent Profile

Bitter cherry smells of dark cherry over a hard, bitter almond and cherry-stone note. It is drier and less sweet than candied cherry. At full strength it is sharp and slightly medicinal. Within minutes it softens into a warm marzipan note.

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EnvelopeTop · ~2h lasting

Family Sweet & Gourmand, Fruity

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Materials That Can Make This Note

Bitter Cherry is usually an accord, a blend of several materials, such as:

Benzaldehyde almond · cherry · cinnamon

Smell words come from published sources.

Allergens perfumes with this note can list: Bitter almond

A given perfume with this note may use this material, or something else, and may or may not contain the allergens above.

Origin

'Bitter cherry' is a common name for the sour cherry, Prunus cerasus. It also names a North American tree, Prunus emarginata, which has no perfumery use. Cherries give no usable essential oil. Perfumers build the note from benzaldehyde, the bitter-almond molecule of cherry stones, with fruity esters.

Usage in Perfumery

Bitter cherry is used as a top note. It gives a darker, less sweet cherry. It suits gourmand compositions. The one listed perfume pairs it with chocolate, hazelnut, honey and tobacco.