Pineapple’s sticky, sweet, juicy thickness creates a tropical and creamy tone in perfume. Its mouth-filling rich scent is best paired with fuller, heavier notes like jasmine sambac, Damask rose, gardenia, tuberose, pear, watermelon, melon, ginger, and cinnamon. It’s also a sensual treat in vanilla-based gourmand fragrances. Pineapple’s distinctive, round, pear/orange/red apple aroma is ideal for summer season, especially for travel vacations to countries known for their fiery market spices. Its rich, tangy texture in a perfume is a lovely complement to exotic heat.

White musks are a synthetic rendition of animalic musks, and their aroma ranges from clean and soft, to floral and sensuous. Due to their inclusion in the laundry detergent making process, most people associate white musks with the air-dried clean laundry scent. White musks also contain fixatives, which bond to certain accords and make them cling to the skin for a longer period.

A surprising aphrodisiac, ambergris has been used as a quasi-love potion in fine perfumery for millennia. Its beguilingly erotic effect is matched by its ability to act as a unique fixative: giving volume and amplification to a fragrance, and softening or binding the delicate balance of aromas after a considered process of maceration in 96% alcohol. Nowadays, ambergris is often replaced by synthetic products (such as Ambroxan, Ambrox or Orcanox) due to its exceptionally high price tag and relative unreliability in terms of production, sourcing and accessibility.

The holy grail of zest, lime is an energizing top note with a sharp, bitterly refreshing bite. It is unwaveringly bright, offering a fragrant scent that is lighter and sweeter than lemon.