Cherry Plum
Note Profile
About
Cherry plum is the small round fruit of Prunus cerasifera, also called myrobalan plum. It smells and tastes sweet-tart rather than jammy. Young fruit is sharply sour with green apple and lemon nuances. Ripe fruit keeps the tartness but gains sugar and a light warm-spice edge. A faint bitter-almond trace runs under it, the benzaldehyde character shared across the Prunus genus.
Scent Profile
Cherry plum is a small, round fruit that smells sweet-tart rather than jammy. Young fruit is sharply sour, with green apple and lemon-like citrus nuances. As it ripens the tartness stays but sugar builds, with a light warm spice edge. A faint bitter-almond, nutty trace runs underneath, shared across the whole plum family.
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Origin
Prunus cerasifera is a small tree of the Balkans, the Caucasus and Central Asia, widely planted in Europe as a hedge and as an ornamental in its purple-leaved forms. It is one of the two wild parents of the cultivated plum. The fruit ripens from yellow through red in mid-summer and is eaten fresh, cooked into sauces such as tkemali, or dried. No commercial cherry plum essential oil, absolute or CO2 extract was found for this note. In perfumery the note is built from fruity reconstruction materials, not from the plant.
Usage in Perfumery
Cherry plum is used as a top-to-heart fruity note in fresh and fruity-floral compositions. Its job is a tart red fruit that reads lighter and sharper than plum. It sits well against green and citrus tops, and against rose, white florals and light musks. Perfumers reach for it when plum would be too dark and heavy and cherry would be too syrupy.
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