Ingredients · Fruits · Made in a lab
Plum
Plums yield no perfume extract; the ripe, winey fruit is built from lactones and damascones.
- What it is
- A fruit whose smell can’t be extracted, so perfumers rebuild it from other materials.
- How perfumers build it
- Known in
- Femme (Rochas, 1944)
- Worth knowing
- Femme's plum came from Prunol, a ready-made plum base the perfumer Edmond Roudnitska built into the formula.
Named by the house in 10 of the 352 perfumes read so far
