Fruity notes
Fruity notes almost always come exclusively from synthesis, as their smell cannot currently be extracted by conventional techniques.
With the exception of the blackcurrant bud, the only natural note in the fruity palette.
Note that apricot shades can also be obtained using osmanthus, a small Chinese flower.
For the rest, it is exclusively a matter of synthesis, the first uses of which date back to the beginning of the 20th century, around plum or yellow fruit notes found, for example, in the fruity chypres of the time.
Since the end of the 1980s, the fruity genre has been widely democratized to become almost omnipresent on perfumery shelves in the early 2000s.
They still largely dominate the women's market today.
If peach and plum (undecalactone, prunol) have been used since the beginning of the 20th century, the blackcurrant bud made its first appearance in 1969, the fig accord common in the 90s, and the notes of red or exotic fruits will develop widely in the course of the 2000s.
Fruity notes often marry floral notes in women's perfumery, we then speak of fruity florals, a rather wise and easy-to-wear register.
They are also very present in the composition of "neo-chypres" alongside rose, jasmine, patchouli, a genre very present in perfumery today and which quite often flirts with "gourmand".
Fruity notes have become so popular in recent years that they are almost a facet on their own.
