Hard Cider

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Hard cider is fermented apple juice. The note is the drink, not the fruit. It leads with the fruity and floral aroma of apples and a bright, juicy acidity, over a clean fermentation. It is not boozy-led and it is not oaky. Once a cider ferments dry, it is wine-like.

Scent Profile

Hard Cider smells of pressed apple first, fruity and floral together rather than one after the other. A bright, juicy acidity runs right behind the fruit. The alcohol itself stays low and clean, with no oak or barrel character. A faint tropical banana note and a green, cut-grass edge round it out.

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Breadthmedium

EnvelopeTop · ~2h lasting

Family Fruity

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Materials That Can Make This Note

Perfumers can build Hard Cider from materials such as:

Ethyl 2-methylbutyrate apple · estery · plum
2-methyl-4-pentyl-1,3-dioxane ethereal · musty · green

Smell words come from published sources.

Allergens perfumes with this note can list: Eugenol

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

Origin

Apple juice, usually from cider varieties carrying more tannin and acid than dessert apples, fermented to about 4 to 8 per cent alcohol. Ethyl 2-methylbutyrate carries most of the positive apple character and is present in the raw fruit as well as the finished drink. Isoamyl acetate is a fermentation ester most judges name as banana. 2-methyl-4-pentyl-1,3-dioxane gives the quality judges call cidery, which has no word outside this drink. Acetaldehyde gives green apple and cut grass. A minority Normandy style is reported as spicy and smoky. This note does not describe it.

Usage in Perfumery

A top note for orchard accords that need acidity instead of sugar. Use it where apple is too green and red-apple too candied. It lifts light florals and reads well against a dry musk. It has no base of its own, so it will disappear under an amber or a resin.