Ingredients · Fruits · Made in a lab
Mango
Mangoes yield no perfume extract; the resinous, tropical flesh is rebuilt from terpenes, fruity esters and a trace of sulphur.
- What it is
- A fruit whose smell can’t be extracted, so perfumers rebuild it from other materials.
- How perfumers build it
- Known in
- Fame (Rabanne, 2022)
- Worth knowing
- Mangoes bred in the Americas smell mostly of one terpene, δ-3-carene; Old World varieties add lactones and furanones.
Named by the house in 10 of the 1080 perfumes read so far
