Jam

Note Profile

Prepared

About

Cooked fruit and sugar with no fruit named. A preserve accord, thicker and less fresh than the fruit it is made from.

Scent Profile

Fruity leads and both product descriptions open there: "rich and fruity with layers of dark berries", and "glistening berries and red apples". Sweet_vanillic is the sugar the fruit was cooked in. It is named twice, as "vanilla sugar" in the published base of one build and as furaneol's "caramel-like odor" in the other. It is high but held under the fruit, because every source still leads with fruit. Sour is the pectin and acid edge that stops a preserve reading as plain syrup. It is the weakest number here. No source says tart, and it is inferred from "apple pectin" and "red apple" in the listed build. Honeyed is the thickened, part-caramelised sweetness of "slow-simmered preserves". Nothing above 0.25 names a fruit, and that is the finding rather than a gap in the reading. The term itself names none.

ScentWheel

Breadthmedium

EnvelopeHeart · ~6h lasting

Family Fruity, Sweet & Gourmand

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

Origin

Jam is fruit boiled with sugar until it sets. No material is sold as plain jam. Every commercial product found names a fruit: Perfumer's Apprentice sell Berry Jam, The Flaming Candle sell Raspberry Jam. The cooked-jam smell is built rather than distilled, from furaneol and related caramel-fruity molecules laid over a fruit reconstruction. Wikipedia describes furaneol as having "a caramel-like odor at high concentrations" and "a sweet strawberry aroma when dilute", which is the jam effect in one molecule.

Usage in Perfumery

Heart of gourmand and fruity-gourmand builds, where a fruit has to read as cooked rather than picked. The Flaming Candle publish the standard shape: apple pectin and red cherry on top, strawberry and raspberry in the middle, "Sweet Grenadine, Vanilla Sugar" in the base.