Green Plum

Note Profile

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About

Green plum is the unripe stage of a stone fruit, tart and cut-leaf green with a bitter-almond edge under it. It is caught mid-ripening: the sour still wins, but a juicy, faintly peachy body has started to come through. It is bright and short-lived, and it fades to a thin stone-fruit memory within about two hours.

Scent Profile

Green Plum opens sharp and green, a cut-leaf top over an unripe, tart fruit. The sourness dominates at first, though a juicy, faintly peachy body starts to come through underneath. A faintly bitter almond edge runs alongside the fruit. Within a couple of hours it fades to a thin, creamy stone-fruit memory, the almond and the peachy-creamy softness the last things left.

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Breadthbroad

EnvelopeTop · ~2h lasting

Family Green & Aromatic, Fruity

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Materials That Can Make This Note

Perfumers can build Green Plum from materials such as:

Cis-3-hexen-1-ol grassy · foliage · green
Gamma-decalactone peach · coconut · oily
Ethyl 2-methylbutyrate apple · estery · plum

Smell words come from published sources.

Allergens perfumes with this note can list: Bitter almond

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

Origin

A reconstruction, not an extract. Première Peau states plainly that no commercial green plum extract exists and that the note is built molecule by molecule. The referent is the unripe European plum, Prunus domestica, and the Japanese ume, Prunus mume. Three materials carry it: benzaldehyde (CAS 100-52-7) for the bitter-almond stone-fruit signature shared by every Prunus, cis-3-hexenol (CAS 928-96-1) for the sharp fresh-cut-leaf top that supplies the green of the name, and gamma-decalactone (CAS 706-14-9) for the peachy, creamy, fatty body.

Usage in Perfumery

A top-note material. Its own source says green plum lives in the top and lifts citrus and floral openings with a tart-juicy clarity. Use it where a fruit note has to read as bright and unfinished rather than jammy. It will not hold a heart, and on a blotter little is left after the second hour.