Ingredients · Fruits · Made in a lab

Passion fruit

No passion fruit oil reaches the perfumer; the tart, tropical tang is rebuilt round the sulphur molecules the fruit makes.

What it is

A fruit whose smell can’t be extracted, so perfumers rebuild it from other materials.

How perfumers build it

Hexyl butyrate, not in Ingredients yetBlackcurrant bud absoluteOxanePassifloran, not in Ingredients yet

Known in

Love Hibiscus (Amouage, 2026)

Worth knowing

In the 1970s chemists extracted over 500 kg of yellow passion fruit to identify its sulphur molecules, the one now sold as Oxane among them.

Named by the house in 5 of the 1080 perfumes read so far

Love HibiscusAmouage · “Passion Fruit”Power of YouArmani · “Exotic Maracuja (Passion Fruit) Accord”Queen of SilkCreed · “Passion Fruit”Oud MaracujáMaison Crivelli · “passion fruit accord”KirkéTiziana Terenzi · “Passion Fruit”