Bromelia

Note Profile

Botanical

About

Bromelia is the flower of a bromeliad, not the pineapple fruit. Fragrantica files it under Flowers and that is how it is scored here. The only analytical source found covers 13 species across four Bromeliaceae genera and reports a green, myrcene-led profile in most of them, with a floral and honeyed layer in the species that carry phenylacetaldehyde. The family is chemically diverse and the balance shifts by species and by pollinator, so this vector is an average across a genus rather than a description of one flower.

Scent Profile

Green leads because the analytical source names beta-myrcene as the dominant volatile across most species and gives it 'green, herb, pine, lemon, grapefruit, musty and spicy' character. Floral sits close behind, because the note is filed and sold as a flower and because phenylacetaldehyde, named in the same study, carries a floral odour. Citrus comes from gamma-terpinene, described as citrusy and sweet, and from the lemon and grapefruit facets of myrcene itself. Tropical is the family character and the pineapple relation, kept modest because the source that names a sweet pineapple smell is describing the ripe fruit, not the flower. Below sit fruity, honeyed from the floral/honey odour of phenylacetaldehyde, aromatic_herbal from the herb and pine side of myrcene, sweet_vanillic for the 'delicate and sweet' scent of bee-pollinated species, dry_woody from alpha-humulene, and earthy for the musty edge. Nothing was scored for the 'unpleasant' bat-pollinated species, because that word names a reaction and not a facet.

ScentWheel

Breadthmedium

EnvelopeHeart · ~4h lasting

Family Green & Aromatic, Floral

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

Origin

Bromelia is a genus in Bromeliaceae, the pineapple family, native to tropical and subtropical America. No manufacturer publishes a captive Bromelia base or absolute. Nothing was found from Givaudan, Firmenich, IFF or Symrise under this name. It is not established whether the perfumery note is an extraction, a reconstruction, or a marketing name for a fruity-floral accord.

Usage in Perfumery

A heart-note tropical flower. Attested on 4 Fragrantica perfumes and absent from Parfumo, so it is a Fragrantica-side term with thin usage. In practice it does the work of a green tropical bloom, fresher and less creamy than the white florals it sits near.