Ground Cherry

Note Profile

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About

Ground cherry is a fantasy accord for the fruit of Physalis pubescens, a golden berry that ripens inside a papery husk. It smells of pineapple and cherry together, sweetened with honey and caramel and cut by a green tartness. It is not a cherry.

Scent Profile

Ground cherry smells sweet and fruity, like a cross between cherry and pineapple with a hint of tartness. Pineapple is the one fruit giving it a tropical lean. Underneath is a caramel sweetness that can read as honey. A fresh green edge adds a light zing, and a mild tartness keeps it from turning flat.

ScentWheel

Breadthmedium

EnvelopeHeart · ~4h lasting

Family Fruity, Sweet & Gourmand

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

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Materials That Can Make This Note

Perfumers can build Ground Cherry from materials such as:

3-(methylthio)propionaldehyde onion · creamy · musty
Hexanal grassy · fatty · plum
Methyl 2-methylbutyrate ripe · ethereal · estery

Smell words come from published sources.

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

Origin

Physalis pubescens, syn. Physalis pruinosa, in the nightshade family and related to tomatoes rather than to Prunus. No commercial essential oil or absolute exists. Premiere Peau states this outright: 'The note is a fantasy accord.' Every descriptor here therefore describes a constructed effect built to represent the fresh fruit, not a measured material odour.

Usage in Perfumery

A heart note that lifts a composition with sweet fruit without going cloying. Premiere Peau places it alongside floral notes such as jasmine or rose, and uses it as contrast against earthier bases such as sandalwood or patchouli. Its tartness is what keeps it structured where other fruit notes go flat.