Ingredients · Fruits · Made in a lab
Miracle berry
The berry is known for a trick of taste, not a smell; the note in Hermès Barénia is synthesized.
- What it is
- A fruit whose smell can’t be extracted, so perfumers rebuild it from other materials.
- Known in
- Barénia (Hermès, 2024)
- Worth knowing
- The berry's protein, miraculin, makes sour food taste sweet for up to about 30 minutes.
Named by the house in 1 of the 1080 perfumes read so far
