What it smells like
Apple, pear, peach, plum, raspberry, blackcurrant. This is the flesh of the fruit rather than its skin: sugar, juice and a faint fermenting edge. The soft lactonic side of peach sits at one end and the sharp green bite of blackcurrant at the other.
Where it stops
Fruity is neither Citrus nor Tropical. The dividing lines are bitterness for citrus and creaminess for tropical.
Smells most like
berries - and in the same register, red apple, red fruits.
Notes that load on it
Notes from our catalogue whose position on this facet is 0.40 or higher, strongest first. A note is not filed under one facet: it carries a value on all 34 at once, and these are the ones where this axis is doing real work.
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Red Apple
Vanilla
Heart · ~4h
Botanical
236
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Williams Pear
Waxy-Fatty
Top · ~3h
Botanical
-
Pear
Green
Waxy-Fatty
Heart · ~4h
Botanical
1,883
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Strawberry
Vanilla
Heart · ~4h
Botanical
570
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Davana
Aromatic
Heart · ~8h
Botanical
339
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Wild Strawberry
Vanilla
Green
Heart · ~6h
Botanical
62
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Griotte Syrup
Sour
Nutty
Boozy
Heart · ~8h
Prepared
5
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Peach Melba
Lactonic
Vanilla
Heart · ~6h
Botanical
-
Pearadise®
Heart · ~5h
Molecule
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Peach
Lactonic
Vanilla
Heart · ~8h
Botanical
2,097
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Blueberry
Heart · ~8h
Botanical
123
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Nashi Pear
Green
Heart · ~3h
Botanical
21
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Jellybean
Heart · ~4h
Prepared
1
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Kiwi Jam
Sour
Green
Vanilla
Top · ~3h
Prepared
1
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Punch
Tropical
Boozy
Top · ~2.5h
Prepared
1
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Loganberry
Sour
Heart · ~3h
Botanical
-
Pinot Noir Grapes
Earthy
Heart · ~4h
Botanical
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Popsicle
Vanilla
Citrus
Top · ~2h
Prepared
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Prunella
Vanilla
Heart · ~8h
Molecule
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Soursop
Tropical
Heart · ~4h
Botanical
Materials that carry it
Real substances, each keyed by its CAS registry number, that an external perfumery vocabulary publishes with a term meaning this facet outright. This is the layer that makes a facet checkable against something outside our own database.
| Material | CAS | Terms | Status |
|---|---|---|---|
| hexyl isobutyrate | CAS 2349-07-7 | apple, berry, fruity, grape, peach, pear | |
| apritone | CAS 68133-79-9 | apricot, fruity, jammy, peach, plum | |
| damascenone | CAS 23696-85-7 | apple, fruity, grape, plum, raspberry | Declarable IFRA |
| propyl heptanoate | CAS 7778-87-2 | apple, fruity, grape, pear, strawberry | |
| heptyl 2-methylpropanoate | CAS 2349-13-5 | apple, apricot, cherry, fruity, peach | |
| 4-methylpentan-2-yl (E)-but-2-enoate | CAS 35206-51-0 | apple, fruity, grape, pear, plum | |
| 4,4,7a-trimethyl-6,7-dihydro-5H-1-benzofuran-2-one | CAS 15356-74-8 | apricot, berry, fruity, grape, plum | |
| ethyl 2-ethyl-3-methyl-3-phenyloxirane-2-carboxylate | CAS 19464-94-9 | berry, fruity, jammy, raspberry, strawberry | |
| geranyl butyrate | CAS 106-29-6 | apricot, fruity, peach, raspberry | |
| butyl isovalerate | CAS 109-19-3 | apple, fruity, peach, pear | |
| isobutyl butyrate | CAS 539-90-2 | apple, berry, cherry, fruity | |
| neryl isobutyrate | CAS 2345-24-6 | fruity, pear, raspberry, strawberry | |
| piperonyl acetone | CAS 55418-52-5 | berry, fruity, jammy, raspberry | |
| beta-ionyl acetate | CAS 22030-19-9 | berry, jammy, raspberry, strawberry | |
| butyl anthranilate | CAS 7756-96-9 | berry, fruity, grape, plum | |
| maltol isobutyrate | CAS 65416-14-0 | berry, fruity, jammy, strawberry | |
| citronellyl formate | CAS 105-85-1 | apricot, fruity, peach, plum | |
| isoamyl isobutyrate | CAS 2050-01-3 | apple, cherry, fruity, grape | |
| isopropyl cinnamate | CAS 60512-85-8 | berry, fruity, peach, strawberry | |
| furfuryl isovalerate | CAS 13678-60-9 | berry, fruity, grape, plum | |
| piperonyl isobutyrate | CAS 5461-08-5 | berry, fruity, jammy, plum | |
| 2-butoxynaphthalene | CAS 10484-56-7 | berry, fruity, raspberry, strawberry | |
| 2-methylbutyl butyrate | CAS 51115-64-1 | apple, apricot, fruity, pear | |
| p-mentha-8-thiol-3-one | CAS 38462-22-5 | berry, fruity, peach, raspberry | |
| (e)-hex-3-enyl valerate | CAS 35852-46-1 | apple, fruity, grape, pear | |
| 3-phenylpropyl isobutyrate | CAS 103-58-2 | apricot, fruity, jammy, plum | |
| 3-phenylpropyl isovalerate | CAS 5452-07-3 | fruity, plum, raspberry, strawberry | |
| 2-phenylethyl 3-methylbutanoate | CAS 140-26-1 | apple, apricot, fruity, peach | |
| prop-2-enyl 3-phenylprop-2-enoate | CAS 1866-31-5 | apricot, fruity, peach, plum | |
| prop-2-enyl 3-phenylprop-2-enoate | CAS 1866-31-5 | apricot, fruity, peach, plum |
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Reading the two flags
Declarable means the substance appears in Annex III of the EU Cosmetics Regulation, so it has to be named on the ingredient list once it passes a concentration threshold. IFRA means an IFRA Standard restricts or prohibits its use. Both are facts about the substance, not about any fragrance: a perfume can contain a declarable material below the threshold and never print it, and a restricted material used within its limit is used correctly.
The source also supplies no common name for a large share of materials, so those display as a bare registry number and are ranked last. They are kept because they are real evidence: dropping them would make the vocabulary look better described than it is.
Anchor terms
A facet on its own is just a word we chose. An anchor is what makes it checkable: a term in an external, independently maintained vocabulary of odour descriptions, built for perfumery materials rather than for us. The material list above is drawn from the direct terms only, because a partial term corroborates too weakly to stand as evidence on its own.
Direct
Terms that mean this facet outright
- apple
- apricot
- berry
- cherry
- cherry, berry
- fruity
- fruity,citrus
- fruity,other than citrus
- grape
- jammy
- peach
- pear
- plum
- raspberry
- strawberry
Partial
Terms that lean this way but also load elsewhere
- juicy
- ripe
The rest of Fruity
The other facets in this family. A note can load on any of them at the same time as this one, so they are neighbours rather than alternatives.