Melon Blossom

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The flower of the melon vine: a soft floral with a bitter-almond aldehydic top.

Scent Profile

Melon Blossom is a soft floral top note with a bitter almond edge. Underneath the flower sits a strong nutty, bitter-almond note, the dominant chemical signature of the bloom. A sharp aldehydic quality runs through the whole thing. It carries a green, vegetable-like sharpness alongside a fruity melon impression, with a faint watery, cucumber-like note in the background.

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Breadthbroad

EnvelopeHeart · ~3h lasting

Family Floral, Sweet & Gourmand

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Materials That Can Make This Note

Perfumers can build Melon Blossom from materials such as:

Benzaldehyde almond · cherry · cinnamon

Smell words come from published sources.

Allergens perfumes with this note can list: Bitter almond

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

Origin

Melon blossom is the flower of Cucumis melo. No supplier sells an extract and no perfumery trade source describes it, so the note is a reconstruction. The only chemistry found is a pollination study in Insects (MDPI) that measured 77 volatiles from melon flowers for a bee-antenna experiment. Aldehydes made up 61 to 82 per cent of the total and benzaldehyde alone made up 49 to 74 per cent, with (E)-2-hexenal and (E)-2-octenal behind it.

Usage in Perfumery

A heart note in fresh fruity-florals. Three Parfumo placements across three brands is the whole measured usage, and the commercial reading of the name is softer and more aquatic than the real flower: a WoodWick candle sold as Melon Blossom lists "juicy melon, cucumber, and baobab traces with violet leaf and lemon blossom".