Paradisamide
Note Profile
About
A tropical fruit note of guava and passion fruit, cut with grapefruit tartness and a rhubarb tang. It is fresh, with a bitter citrus edge, and it lasts far longer than the fruit it evokes.
Scent Profile
Paradisamide smells of tropical fruit, guava and passion fruit, with the lush sweetness those two carry. A fresh, bitter citrus edge runs ahead of the fruit, close to grapefruit's tart brightness. A vegetal, stem-like green tang comes from rhubarb, sour rather than sweet. Underneath sits a faint sulphurous, thiol-like note, the quality that makes guava and passion fruit read as tropical rather than merely fruity.
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Materials That Can Make This Note
Perfumers can use this material directly to make Paradisamide.
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Paradisamide Butanamide, 2-ethyl-n-methyl-n-(3-methylphenyl)- grapefruit · tropical
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Origin
A Givaudan captive. The molecule is 2-ethyl-N-methyl-N-(3-methylphenyl)butanamide, CAS 406488-30-0, held here as the material `butanamide-2-ethyl-n-methyl-n-3-methylphenyl`. It is an amide, not a fruit extract and not an ester.
Usage in Perfumery
Used at low dose, about 0.5% of a compound, to give a juicy lift to other fruity notes and to make a tropical accord survive the drydown. It also reads floral in shampoo and shower gel bases. Because it is a base note it is the way to put a fruit effect into the far end of a fragrance, where guava or passionfruit materials have long gone.
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