The drawing: lycheeThe drawing: lychee
Lychee

Ingredients · Fruits · Made in a lab

Lychee

Lychees yield no perfume extract; the sweet, rose-like smell is rebuilt from the rose molecules the fruit itself makes.

What it is
A fruit whose smell can’t be extracted, so perfumers rebuild it from other materials.
How perfumers build it
Rose oxideCitronellolGeraniol (rose)Linaloolbeta-DamascenoneDimethyl trisulfide, not in Ingredients yet
Known in
Delina (Parfums de Marly, 2017)
Worth knowing
Rose oxide gives lychee, rose oil and Gewürztraminer wine part of their smell.