Ingredients · Fruits · Made in a lab
Cherry
Cherries give no perfume extract; the maraschino smell rests on benzaldehyde.
- What it is
- A fruit whose smell can’t be extracted, so perfumers rebuild it from other materials.
- How perfumers build it
- Known in
- Lost Cherry (Tom Ford, 2018)
- Worth knowing
- Benzaldehyde smells of both cherry and almond; the two fruits are botanical cousins.
Named by the house in 4 of the 352 perfumes read so far