Medlar

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Medlar is the bletted fruit of Mespilus germanica. Left to soften past ripeness, the flesh reduces to the texture and smell of apple sauce, cidery and wine-like rather than fresh and bright.

Scent Profile

Medlar smells of cooked fruit rather than fresh, like apple sauce or stewed quince left to soften past ripeness. A boozy, cidery, wine-like note runs underneath, the smell fermentation leaves behind as the flesh bletts. A soft vanilla sweetness follows, and a sharp sourness stops it turning jammy. A green edge from the unripe fruit never fully leaves.

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Breadthmedium

EnvelopeHeart · ~4h lasting

Family Fruity, Sweet & Gourmand

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Materials That Can Make This Note

Perfumers can build Medlar from materials such as:

4-carvomenthenol musty · earthy · peppery
Gamma-terpinene citrus · lime · herbal
P-cymene citrus · woody

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Allergens perfumes with this note can list: Vanillin

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

Origin

Mespilus germanica, a small tree of the Rosaceae grown in Europe and western Asia since Roman times. The fruit is inedible hard off the tree and is bletted, held after picking until the flesh browns and softens. Food-chemistry work on the volatiles finds aldehydes, alcohols, esters, acids and terpenes, with C-6 aldehydes and alcohols dominant by quantity, and names vanillin as an aroma quality marker.

Usage in Perfumery

A soft, cooked-fruit note. It sits where a perfumer wants orchard fruit without the sharpness of fresh apple or pear, and it brings a fermented edge that plain fruit notes do not have.