Prunella

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About

Prunella is a Firmenich captive base, sold as Prunella and as Prunella 975617. It is the trade's standard dried-plum accord. It is not the plant Prunella vulgaris, and it is not the fruit note plum.

Scent Profile

Prunella smells powerfully of ripe plum and prune, dried and concentrated rather than fresh off the tree. A sweet, rich dried-fruit sweetness runs through it, with a boozy, raisin and prune-compote note behind it. A subtle coconut, velvety lactonic texture softens the edges. The whole thing reads as a sticky, honeyed dried fruit rather than a garden plum.

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Family Fruity, Sweet & Gourmand

Read off the wheel, not a label applied to the note.

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Origin

A compounded base from Firmenich, not a single molecule and not a natural extract. One reseller gives the compositional detail that it is 'built around an overdose of phenoxyethyl isobutyrate'. No CAS number appears on any reachable page. It is cited as the plum accord behind Dior Poison and Chanel Egoiste.

Usage in Perfumery

Used to place a dark, dried stone-fruit body in a heart or a drydown. Resellers agree on the same partners: vanilla, tobacco, rose and rose ketones, patchouli and other fruit bases. It is the material a perfumer reaches for when a plum needs to read as prune rather than as fresh fruit.