Mango Tree
Note Profile
About
Mango tree is the leaf note of Mangifera indica, not the fruit and not the timber. Every material sold under a mango-tree name is a leaf product. It smells of crushed green leaf, new leather and warm tropical air, and it does not smell of mango juice.
Scent Profile
Green leads and stays leading: crushed leaf and a green tea character rather than anything juicy. Behind it a full leather, new and dry, the smell of walking into a shoe shop rather than a worn hide. Tropical sits alongside as warm rind and sunshine, not fruit flesh. Under those three a dry_woody balsamic base, a tobacco_hay agrestic edge of dried grass and farmyard, and a soft amber_resinous warmth. An aromatic_herbal greenness runs through the middle. Smaller parts: a floral lift one supplier reads as pink lotus, a faint fruity sweetness, a light sweet_vanillic roundness and a trace of earthy soil.
ScentWheel
Read off the wheel, not a label applied to the note.
Origin
Mangifera indica, an evergreen tree of the Anacardiaceae grown across South Asia, Southeast Asia and tropical America. The perfumery material is a leaf absolute, made by solvent extraction of the leaves and sold green in colour, usually diluted to 50% in triethyl citrate. Steam-distilled leaf oils are also offered. The Wood Database records the timber itself as having no characteristic odour, so nothing here comes from the heartwood.
Usage in Perfumery
Used as a tropical floral-leafy note rather than a fruit note. Suppliers pair it with rose, jasmine sambac, sandalwood, green tea and tobacco accords. It is strong and is meant to be worked in dilution.
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Perfumes featuring Mango Tree
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