Floral Fruity is subfamily B9 of the Floral family in the SFP table. It places fruit notes over the bouquet: peach, apricot, pear, apple, berries, pineapple, lychee. Fruit usually sits at the top and early heart, while flowers carry the body of the scent.
The SFP also has B6 Floral Woody Fruity for cases with a stronger woody base. B9 covers compositions where fruit and flowers make up most of the structure over a light base.
Very few fruits yield an oil or extract that smells of fresh fruit. Fruit notes therefore come mainly from molecules: esters such as ethyl butyrate, isoamyl acetate and hexyl acetate for apple, pear and banana; lactones such as gamma decalactone and undecalactone for peach and apricot; sulphur compounds at very low levels for blackcurrant and grapefruit.
The branch grew as new fruit molecules and headspace analysis of fresh fruit came into wide use. The floral layer is usually rose, peony, jasmine or freesia, over musks and light woods.
Floral extracts used in the heart, such as rose and jasmine, are named on the allergen list of Regulation (EU) 2023/1545.
The SFP website publishes only subfamily names; perfume lists per subfamily are in the printed Classification officielle des parfums. Perfumes named here are commonly cited examples, not official SFP placements.
B9 sits next to B6 Floral Woody Fruity and B3 Floral Bouquet. When the fruit shrinks the scent returns to a bouquet; when woods and patchouli grow it moves to B6. On Michael Edwards' wheel fruit notes have their own family, Fruity, added around 2008 according to secondary sources.
| Layer | Materials |
|---|---|
| Top | Blackcurrant bud, Mandarin, Grapefruit, Hexyl butyrate |
| Middle | Osmanthus, Davana, Damask rose, Jasmine |
| Base | Ambrette, Sandalwood, Pentadecanolide |
A natural version relies on materials with built-in fruit facets: osmanthus (apricot), davana (dried fruit, wine), blackcurrant bud (green berry), mandarin and grapefruit (peel), Roman chamomile (apple). Massoia bark carries a creamy coconut lactone.
No natural material gives fresh pear, pineapple or lychee the way synthetic molecules do. This page gives no formula percentages.
| Fruity esters and lactones · Hexyl butyrate · Massoia lactone · Isoamyl isovalerate | In the constituent library. |
| Natural sources of fruity notes · Osmanthus · Davana · Blackcurrant bud · Chamomile roman · Massoia | Apricot, dried fruit, berries, apple, coconut. |
Updated 09/2026. Figures follow the year stated in each source.
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