Cucumber

Ingredients · Green · Made in a lab

Cucumber

Cucumbers give no perfume extract; their cool crunch is one or two potent aldehydes.

What it is
A fruit whose smell can’t be extracted, so perfumers rebuild it from other materials.
How perfumers build it
2,6-NonadienalNonadienol, not in Ingredients yetMelonalCalone (marine notes)
Worth knowing
The same cucumber aldehyde also gives violet leaf its green, watery edge.

Named by the house in 1 of the 932 perfumes read so far

Khamrah WahaLattafa · “Cucumber”