Rose Apple

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About

The ripe fruit of Syzygium jambos. It smells of rose first and of crisp fruit second. The flesh is watery and firm rather than juicy, with a thin waxy skin, and the whole thing is lighter and more transparent than either a rose or an apple. It reads as a delicate rose garden with a faint pear-skin crispness.

Scent Profile

Rose Apple smells of rose first, milder than rose absolute itself, and of crisp fruit second, closer to apple and pear than to citrus. The flesh reads watery and firm rather than juicy, with a thin, waxy skin. A faint green note runs underneath, something between a pale pear and a bell pepper. The whole thing is lighter and more transparent than either a rose or an apple.

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Breadthmedium

EnvelopeHeart · ~4h lasting

Family Floral, Fruity

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Materials That Can Make This Note

Perfumers can build Rose Apple from materials such as:

Phenylethyl Alcohol 2-phenylethanol rose · honey · hyacinth

Smell words come from published sources.

A given perfume with this note may use some of these, or something else.

Origin

Syzygium jambos, family Myrtaceae, a tropical tree. Despite the English name it is not related to the apple, which is Malus domestica in the Rosaceae, nor to the rose. The name comes only from the fruit's floral bouquet. There is no commercial extract. Premiere Peau states the note is a reconstruction built from cis-rose oxide, 2-phenylethanol and apple-pear esters.

Usage in Perfumery

Attested on 5 Fragrantica entries, none on Parfumo. Use it where a rose needs to be made fruity and transparent without going to lychee, which is juicier, or to rose absolute, which is heavier. It is a bridge material between a floral heart and a fruity top.