Cape Gooseberry

Note Profile

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Cape gooseberry is the orange berry of Physalis peruviana, ripened inside a papery husk. It smells of peach and apricot over a creamy lactonic sweetness, with a rose-floral lift and a tang behind it. It is not related to gooseberry.

Scent Profile

Cape Gooseberry smells of ripe peach and apricot, fruity flesh with a creamy, milky lactonic sweetness. A gentle sugary warmth sits underneath, edging towards honeyed ripeness. A light rose floral lift runs through it, and a tropical brightness peeks out. A sharp, tangy sourness cuts through the sweetness, keeping it from turning cloying.

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Breadthmedium

EnvelopeHeart · ~4h lasting

Family Fruity, Sweet & Gourmand

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Materials That Can Make This Note

Perfumers can build Cape Gooseberry from materials such as:

Ethyl butyrate pineapple · banana · ethereal
Gamma-caprolactone tobacco · coumarinic · coconut

Smell words come from published sources.

A given perfume with this note may use some of these, or something else.

Origin

Physalis peruviana, Solanaceae, native to the Andes and grown widely in South Africa, which is where the Cape in the name comes from. No supplier sells a cape-gooseberry fragrance material.

Usage in Perfumery

A soft fruity note used alongside peach, raspberry, jasmine and rose. Parfumo records 10 placements across 9 brands. Fragrantica does not carry the term.