Ingredients · Fruits · Made in a lab

Redcurrant

Redcurrants yield no perfume extract; the sharp, tart red-berry note is made in the lab.

What it is

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

How perfumers build it

Ethyl butyrateAllyl caproateTrifernal, not in Ingredients yetgamma-Decalactone

Known in

Very Good Girl (Carolina Herrera, 2021)

Worth knowing

The white currant is a paler, sweeter cultivar of the same species.

Named by the house in 3 of the 1080 perfumes read so far

Very Good GirlCarolina Herrera · “Redcurrant”CK IN2U for HerCalvin Klein · “Red currant leaf”Raspberry Ripple CologneJo Malone London · “redcurrants”