Jujube
Note Profile
About
The fruit of the jujube tree. Sweet and dried-fruit-like, with honey, a baked-apple roundness and a nutty edge.
Scent Profile
Jujube is a sweet, dried-fruit smell, close to a baked apple with honey running through it. A cooked-sugar sweetness sits behind the fruit, rounder than fresh fruit. A faint nutty edge shows up alongside a whisper of berry. The fresh fruit's skin brings a green, grassy trace that fades once the fruit is dried.
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Read off the wheel, not a label applied to the note.
ScentArt
Origin
Jujube is the fruit of Ziziphus jujuba, grown across China, Korea and the Mediterranean. It is eaten fresh but far more often dried, when it turns deep red-brown and wrinkled. There is no jujube fruit oil in ordinary trade, because the flesh yields too little aromatic oil. The one commercial product found, Aytz Chayim's Judean Sidr maceration, is a cold-pressed seed oil infused with leaves and twigs. It smells of "a hint of the sweet date fruit" plus "a light peppery scent with spice leafy green notes".
Usage in Perfumery
A gourmand fruit note. Fragrantica files the term under "Sweets and gourmand smells" and its whole prose descriptor is "sweet". It sits where date or dried fig would sit, in the heart of an oriental or fruity-gourmand build, but lighter and less syrupy than either.
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Perfumes featuring Jujube
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