Fruity

Water Fruit

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Water Fruit is a group note for the fruit that reads as watery rather than sweet - melon, watermelon, cucumber, kiwi, white grape and lychee. It is a class and not one material. What holds the class together is transparency. It smells of juice and cold water with a green edge, and it carries almost no acidity. Premiere Peau and ScentXplore file it under fruit, not under water.

Also Known As

Water Fruits, Watery Fruits

Scent Profile

Water Fruit smells of juice and cold water with a green edge, thin rather than richly sweet, closer to sunlight than to concentrated fruit. It reads as fruity first, since every version of it gets filed under fruit rather than water. An airy, translucent aquatic quality runs alongside it, almost ozone-lifted and wave-cool. A green, fresh-cut note shows in the drydown, strongest in cucumber and kiwi. A cooling, almost transparent chill runs through the whole class, like a glass of cold water on a hot day.

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Breadthmedium

EnvelopeTop · ~2h lasting

Family Fruity, Fresh & Citrus, Green & Aromatic

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

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Origin

Premiere Peau's glossary calls it 'a refreshing note that carries the essence of fresh, juicy fruits' and gives watermelon and cucumber as its synonyms. Fragrenza names six members - melon, watermelon, kiwi, lychee, white grape and cucumber - and calls the grouping 'something of a convenient construct'. ScentXplore lists 'watery (melon, watermelon, cantaloupe, etc.)' as one of the five standard subgroups of fruity notes, next to lactonic, berries, tropical and pome. None of these fruits yields a usable essential oil, so the note is built from aroma chemicals. Fragrenza names cis-3-hexenol and green aldehydes, ketal and acetal materials, a trace of aldehyde C14, Hedione, and Calone.

Usage in Perfumery

A top note. It opens a fragrance with juice and coolness and gives a heavier heart something light to sit against. Premiere Peau states it 'complements green notes and can provide a refreshing contrast to warmer, spicier base notes'. Usage under this exact spelling is a Fragrantica-vocabulary habit: 36 fragrances there and none on Parfumo. Parfumo prints the same idea as 'Watery Fruits', 37 times across 23 brands, from Rochas and Lanvin to Zara and Bath & Body Works. Counting both spellings, this is a mass-market summer note, not a niche one.