- Latin name
- Fragaria × ananassa
- Family
- Rose family (Rosaceae)
- Origin
- the scent is created in the laboratory
- Parts used
- no material is obtained from the berries
- Raw materials
- fruity accords
- Extraction
- synthesis
- Olfactory group
- fruity, gourmand
- Position in the pyramid
- top note and heart
- Synthetic substitutes
- furaneol, fruity esters, ethyl maltol
Strawberry is one of the best-loved berries, with a scent everyone recognises. No aromatic material is obtained from the berries, so in perfume strawberry is recreated with a fruity accord — from fresh garden berry to “candy”.
How it smells: juicy, sweet and joyful: a ripe berry, a light tartness, a faintly caramel and creamy shade. Strawberry sounds playful, warm and a little childlike.
The main strawberry molecule is furaneol: it smells of ripe berry with a caramel shade and is also found in pineapple and tomatoes. It is what makes the strawberry note so appetising and jam-like.
What it pairs with: with cream and vanilla — “strawberries and cream”, with rose — fresh berry-floral fragrances, with champagne and pink pepper — festive compositions, with chocolate — a gourmand dessert, with musk — tender skin scents.
Good to know: the garden strawberry is a hybrid of two American species that arose by chance in eighteenth-century France; that is why its Latin name includes “ananassa”, for its pineapple-like aroma.
