Ingredients · Fruits · Made in a lab

Papaya

Papaya gives no perfume extract; the tropical fruit's smell is rebuilt from linalool, lactones and fruity esters.

What it is

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

How perfumers build it

gamma-DecalactoneMethyl butyrate, not in Ingredients yetEthyl maltol (spun sugar)Benzyl isothiocyanate, not in Ingredients yet

Known in

CK One (Calvin Klein, 1994)

Worth knowing

In smelling tests the compound described as 'papaya' is benzyl isothiocyanate.

Named by the house in 1 of the 1080 perfumes read so far

CK OneCalvin Klein · “papaya”