Red Berries
Sweet-tart berry juice, like crushed raspberries, strawberries, and currants.
You may know it from mixed berry jam
Where it comes from
Usually a blended aroma accord made from synthetic fragrance materials.
Worth knowing
It is a broad berry effect, not an extract from one specific fruit.
About red berries
Natural raspberries hold only about 1 to 4 mg of raspberry ketone per kilogram of fruit. Extracted natural raspberry ketone is priced at roughly 3,000 to 20,000 US dollars per kilogram, among the most expensive natural flavour components there are. A glossary entry on this note describes the accord as built entirely from synthetic molecules, with no commercially viable extraction of raspberry, strawberry or red currant aroma. The same entry treats the note as constructed.
Raspberry ketone is the primary aroma compound of red raspberries, and industrial production condenses acetone with 4-hydroxybenzaldehyde, then hydrogenates the product. The glossary puts the synthetic version at about 40 to 80 dollars per kilogram. Made this way it counts as nature-identical under EU and US rules, and fermentation with engineered bacteria is being developed to make a version that can be called natural.
Strawberry has its own materials. Ethyl methylphenylglycidate is nicknamed strawberry aldehyde even though it has no aldehyde group; it is an ester and epoxide with a sweet, fruity strawberry odour. Furaneol smells of sweet strawberry when dilute and turns caramel-like at high concentration, and it builds up in the fruit as strawberries ripen. For the green, tart edge the glossary lists cis-3-hexenol.
Scentspiracy describes raspberry ketone as opening with fresh raspberry and berry jam, moving into a ripe red-fruit heart and ending in a soft, powdery, subtly warm dry-down. The glossary makes a further claim for the accord as a whole: it peaks in the first fifteen minutes and thins to a faint sweetness by the heart, so other materials have to carry it further.
Scentspiracy gives the usual dose of raspberry ketone in fine fragrance as 0.1 to 2 percent of the concentrate, and lists it as not restricted under the IFRA 51st Amendment.
Accords it shows up in
How many of the fragrances listing Red Berries in our catalogue also carry each accord. We counted this ourselves.
Often paired with
The notes that appear next to Red Berries most often in our catalogue.
Well-known fragrances with Red Berries
Fragrances that list it in their notes, most-rated first.
Houses that use it most
Ranked by how many of their well-known fragrances list Red Berries.