The plate: raspberry
Raspberry

Ingredients · Fruits · Made in a lab

Raspberry

Raspberries give no perfume extract; the note comes from raspberry ketone plus violet molecules.

What it is
A fruit whose smell can’t be extracted, so perfumers rebuild it from other materials.
How perfumers build it
Raspberry ketoneAlpha-ionone (powder puff)Beta-ionone (powder puff)Ethyl maltol (spun sugar)cis-3-Hexenol
Worth knowing
Real raspberries contain ionones, the same molecules that make violets smell like violets.

Named by the house in 41 of the 1080 perfumes read so far

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