- Latin name
- Actinidia deliciosa
- Family
- Kiwifruit family (Actinidiaceae)
- Origin
- the scent is created in the laboratory
- Parts used
- fruit (as the reference for the scent)
- Raw materials
- fruity-green accords
- Extraction
- synthesis
- Olfactory group
- fruity, green
- Position in the pyramid
- top note
- Synthetic substitutes
- fruity esters, cis-3-hexenol
Kiwi is the fruit of the Actinidia vine, with fuzzy brown skin and bright-green flesh full of tiny black seeds. Kiwi comes from China, and New Zealand growers made it famous.
How it smells: fresh, sweet-sour and green: juicy flesh, a light tropical note, a faintly herbal and cucumber-like shade. Kiwi sounds lively, bright and “vitamin-packed”.
The smell of kiwi combines fruity sweetness with green freshness, so the perfumer builds it from fruity esters and green molecules. Such a note adds juiciness to the opening of a fragrance without heavy sweetness.
What it pairs with: with lime and grapefruit — fresh citrus compositions, with strawberry and pineapple — fruity fragrances, with mint — refreshing greenery, with white flowers — light summer fragrances, with musk — a clean fresh base.
Good to know: kiwi fruit is named after the New Zealand kiwi bird — round, brown and fuzzy like the fruit itself; it used to be called “Chinese gooseberry”.
