- Latin name
- Mangifera indica
- Family
- Cashew family (Anacardiaceae)
- Origin
- the scent is created in the laboratory
- Parts used
- no material is obtained from the fruit
- Raw materials
- tropical fruity accords
- Extraction
- synthesis
- Olfactory group
- fruity (tropical)
- Position in the pyramid
- top note and heart
- Synthetic substitutes
- fruity esters, lactones, sulphur-containing tropical molecules
Mango is a tropical fruit from India with juicy golden-orange flesh. No aromatic material is obtained from the fruit, so in perfume mango is an accord conveying a ripe tropical fruit.
How it smells: juicy, sweet and exotic: ripe flesh, a light peach and pineapple shade, a faintly resinous and green note of the skin. Mango sounds sunny, generous and joyfully summery.
Mango's smell has an unexpected resinous, piney facet: mango is a relative of pistachio and cashew, and its skin contains the same terpenes as pine needles. It is this facet that distinguishes true mango from a merely sweet fruity accord.
What it pairs with: with passion fruit and pineapple — tropical compositions, with coconut — a beach holiday, with jasmine and frangipani — tropical florals, with vanilla — a fruity dessert, with musk — light summer fragrances.
Good to know: in India mango is called the “king of fruits”, and on festive days mango leaves are hung over the door as a symbol of prosperity.
