Raisin

Note Profile

Botanical

About

Raisin is the dried grape. It smells concentrated rather than juicy: sweet, dark and jammy, with a wine-like fermented edge. Parfinity puts the booziness in its first sentence, 'a rich, sweet, and slightly boozy fragrance profile with deep fruity nuances', and then names 'a warm, almost wine-like complexity'. Premiere Peau reaches the same place from the other side, attributing the 'honeyed, dried-fruit, almost raisinated quality' of plum to damascenone.

Scent Profile

Fruity is the body, and every source starts there: 'deep fruity nuances' and 'dark, jammy'. It is set just under the published `plum` note's 0.80 because a raisin is dried, so the juicy edge of fresh fruit has gone. Boozy is the facet that gives this note its identity, and it is stated three ways in two sentences: 'slightly boozy', 'almost wine-like complexity', 'slightly fermented'. It runs well above plum's 0.32 and above the `dried-fruits` umbrella's. Honeyed is the 'concentrated sweetness of dried grapes', and it is the exact word Premiere Peau uses for the damascenone character. Sweet_vanillic is the jamminess plus the caramel of ethyl maltol and furaneol, the two compounds Parfinity names first. Below, lactonic is gamma-nonalactone from the same list, a creamy coconut-peach edge that no source describes perceptually. Sour is the fermented tartness, warm_spice and tobacco_hay are the dried and dark register held low, and earthy is unstated.

ScentWheel

Breadthbroad

EnvelopeBase · ~12h lasting

Family Fruity, Sweet & Gourmand

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

What this is made of

Raisin extract

A natural extract

CAS 68915-86-6

Vitis vinifera dried fruit extract (IFRA NCS G2.13, fruit). The note is the dried grape and says so.

How the layers join

Origin

Dried fruit of Vitis vinifera. No supplier sells a raisin absolute or extract and no manufacturer datasheet was found, so in perfumery this is a built accord rather than an extraction. Parfinity names ethyl maltol, furaneol and gamma-nonalactone as the compounds used to reproduce it. Damascenone is the molecule the trade credits with the raisinated character wherever it appears.

Usage in Perfumery

Parfumo records 9 perfumes across 7 brands. It sits in gourmand and oriental bases beside plum, fig, tobacco and rum, used where a fruit sweetness is wanted dark and dense rather than fresh. It is a member of what the published `dried-fruits` umbrella covers, and that note's own profile names raisins first.