Cherry Tree
Note Profile
About
Cherry Tree is the wood of Prunus avium or Prunus serrulata, not the fruit and not the blossom. It reads as a quiet, dry, warm wood carrying a faint almond-nutty trace and a hay-sweet coumarin warmth. Both sources found say plainly that cherry wood does not smell like cherries.
Scent Profile
Dry woody leads and stays leading: sanded furniture rather than a standing tree, warm and reddish rather than sharp or resinous. A nutty almond trace runs under it, the benzaldehyde edge that cherry wood shares with cherry fruit, but mellow and blended in rather than bright. A mild sweet vanillic warmth sits alongside, coumarin more than sugar. Behind both there is an earthy, subdued quality that one source reports comes out as the wood is cut or sanded, and a tobacco hay dryness from the same coumarin. A faint fruity whisper is present and no more than that. A slight smoky facet is reported but only from burnt wood, so it is scored as a trace.
ScentWheel
Read off the wheel, not a label applied to the note.
Origin
No standard commercial extraction of cherry wood exists for perfumery. Small-scale distillation of cherry wood chips is possible but uncommon. In practice the note is reconstructed, from coumarin for the hay-sweet warmth, trace benzaldehyde for the almond-cherry edge, and warm woods such as sandalwood and cedarwood for the body.
Usage in Perfumery
Used as a base note in orchard-wood and warm-wood accords, where it supplies dry warmth without the loudness of cedar or the sweetness of the fruit. It is not widely available as a natural extract, so a perfumer builds it rather than buys it.
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