Pear Tree
Note Profile
About
The orchard tree rather than its fruit: green leaf over dry, faintly sweet bark.
Scent Profile
Pear tree smells green first, fresh leaf and sap rather than juicy fruit. Dry, woody bark follows close behind, warm and seasoned rather than sappy, which gives the note more weight than a typical orchard top. A faint fruity whisper runs through the leaves rather than any real juice. A trace of sweetness from the bark and a tangy, sour edge round it off.
ScentWheel
Read off the wheel, not a label applied to the note.
ScentArt
Origin
A fantasy note. No supplier sells a pear tree or pear wood extract, and no trade material with an olfactive description was found for it. Premiere Peau gives the botanical as Pyrus, mainly Pyrus communis, and describes a compounded accord built to the impression of the standing tree - wood, bark, leaf and a fruit echo - not to a distilled material.
Usage in Perfumery
A heart-to-base note used to place a fragrance rather than to flavour it. It sits under orchard and green-woody accords and supplies the dry bark and rustling leaf that a pear fruit note cannot. Attested 24 times on Fragrantica, which files it under woods and mosses, and not at all on Parfumo. Its own source calls the odour strength medium, so it works as a bed and not as a lead.
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