Ingredients · Fruits · Made in a lab
Apricot
Apricots yield no perfume extract; the fruit is rebuilt from peach-like lactones with green and floral notes.
- What it is
- A fruit whose smell can’t be extracted, so perfumers rebuild it from other materials.
- How perfumers build it
- Known in
- Journey Woman (Amouage, 2014)
- Worth knowing
- More than 200 volatile compounds have been described in apricots.
Named by the house in 10 of the 1080 perfumes read so far
