Watery fruits

Summer perfumery has brought these precious fruits into the spotlight, offering light, delightfully aquatic fragrances that are also delicately gourmand.

Watery fruits for our health and our fragrances

The variety and broad palette of flavors, tastes and scents offered by the watery fruits family is an incomparable source of vitamins, trace elements and fibers essential to our well-being.

However, faced with junk food and the accelerated pace of life in which everyone finds themselves, fruit was forgotten for a few years in favor of a richer, indeed too rich, diet. Fruit, particularly watery fruit, therefore represents a significant ally for our health as well as our well-being.

Perfumery thus drew inspiration from the renewed favor of fruit to offer women light, sweet and fruity fragrances that smell of gourmand character and summer. The watery fruits note is therefore representative of this trend, or rather of this fresh breeze of lightness, of transparent sugars and delicate scents offered by melon, watermelon, grapefruit, orange, kiwi, not forgetting the venerable vegetable, cucumber.

The watery fruits note in floral or woody fragrances

Although we know the watery fruits family well from eating them regularly or from smelling them in our fragrances for some years now, it is quite difficult to know the precise ingredients that creators choose to include in the famous watery fruits note. On the other hand, it is rather easy to understand its use in fragrances through the various compositions it inhabits.

As far as floral fragrances are concerned, the watery fruits note appears especially as a top note in lovely floral accords. In Ocean Blue by Escada, the watery fruits note is framed by marine notes and hawthorn to offer freshness and light fruity and floral scents from the very opening. For Sunwater by Lancaster, watery fruits are paired at the top with bergamot and coriander for an accord that is both fresh thanks to the aquatic scent while being spicy and aromatic. As an exception to the rule, Dior uses the watery fruits note in the heart, paired with rose and freesia, in its lovely floral perfume Dior Addict 2.

For men, the watery fruits note is exhaled in rather woody fragrances where it lightly but nonetheless effectively breathes a great gust of freshness into forest scents. In Bazar pour homme by Christian Lacroix, the watery fruits note pairs with yuzu, grapefruit and lavender to offer a tonic and airy opening, an approach that also proves effective in the aromatic woody Polo Black by Ralph Lauren, where watery fruits blend into a tonic cocktail of citrus, aldehydes and aromatics. On the other hand, Pleasures for men and Un Air de Java both use the watery fruits note in the heart paired with a green note, drawing on the powerful, sweet vegetal facet of the watery fruit.

The watery fruits note is thus appreciated as much in feminine and floral fragrances as in masculine and woody perfumes. Aside from these two main categories, few creators have dared to use watery fruits with other accords. However, it is worth noting the originality of the presence of the watery fruits note in the chypre Mauboussin or in the spicy Eaux de Caron Pure.