The plate: pineapple
Pineapple

Ingredients · Fruits · Made in a lab

Pineapple

Pineapple gives no perfume extract; its tangy sweetness comes from candy-flavor esters.

What it is
A fruit whose smell can’t be extracted, so perfumers rebuild it from other materials.
How perfumers build it
Allyl hexanoateEthyl butyrateAllyl cyclohexylpropionate, not in Ingredients yetFuraneolGalbanum
Known in
Aventus (Creed, 2010)
Worth knowing
Allyl hexanoate is also the classic flavor in pineapple candy.

Named by the house in 34 of the 1080 perfumes read so far