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Grape

Ingredients · Fruits · Made in a lab

Grape

Grapes give no perfume extract; the grape-soda sweetness leans on one molecule, methyl anthranilate, with floral terpenes round it.

What it is
A fruit whose smell can’t be extracted, so perfumers rebuild it from other materials.
What the real thing smells of
Known in
Brit Sheer (Burberry, 2007)
Worth knowing
Methyl anthranilate flavours grape soda and grape Kool-Aid.