Strawberry Flower

Note Profile

Botanical

About

Strawberry flower is the small white blossom of the strawberry plant, not the fruit. It reads sweet, powdery and floral with an aniseed edge, closer to hawthorn or mimosa than to anything fruity. The fruit smell is not in the flower.

Scent Profile

Floral and powdery come from the odour of p-anisaldehyde, which the headspace study names as the dominant volatile of the flower. Scentspiracy describes that compound as 'Sweet, powdery, intensely floral with characteristic hawthorn, mimosa, and hay-like notes'. Sweet_vanillic is the anisic sweetness that both odour sources name, Wikipedia calling it 'sweet, floral and strong aniseed odor'. White_floral is the hawthorn and cherry-blossom register Wikipedia records for the same compound. Tobacco_hay is Scentspiracy's 'hay-like'. Green covers the terpenoid tail the study lists, limonene and methyl salicylate among them. Aromatic_herbal is the aniseed itself, honeyed the soft sweetness a blossom of this kind carries, and nutty the benzaldehyde almond edge the study reports as a secondary compound.

ScentWheel

Breadthbroad

EnvelopeHeart · ~6h lasting

Family Floral, Sweet & Gourmand

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

Origin

The blossom of Fragaria x ananassa. A headspace study of live strawberry flowers, published in PMC, found the volatile blend 'dominated by aromatic compounds and terpenoids', led by 4-methoxybenzaldehyde, better known as p-anisaldehyde. Benzaldehyde, benzyl alcohol, methyl salicylate, limonene and decanal follow. No supplier sells a strawberry flower material.

Usage in Perfumery

Not sold as a perfumery material. It appears as a named note in finished fragrances, where it is built rather than extracted. p-Anisaldehyde is the obvious way to build it, and Wikipedia records that compound as standard in hawthorn, lilac and cherry blossom accords.