Note · Fruits
Banana
Musa
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Banana brings a creamy, fruity sweetness, sometimes slightly green. The less sugary plantain gives it a more vegetal facet. In perfumery, it is recreated as an accord.
What it brings
A creamy, fruity roundness.
Origins and uses
Banana yields no essence usable in perfumery: its note is rebuilt with an accord. One of the molecules behind it is isoamyl acetate, with a powerful smell of banana and pear. It occurs naturally in bananas, apples and grapes, and also forms during the fermentation of beer or sake. Dissolved in alcohol, it makes up what is known as "banana oil", a flavouring used in confectionery.
In perfumery, banana brings a creamy, fruity softness, sometimes slightly green. Plantain, less sweet, gives it a more vegetal facet. It tends to sit at the top, where it brightens white flowers and gourmand accords.
In our catalogue, banana opens Alone in Babylon by Stéphane Humbert Lucas 777, alongside tuberose, before a heart of castoreum and sandalwood.
Text written with the help of AI, based on reference sources: encyclopedias, raw-material manufacturers and official information from the fragrance houses.
Material profile
- Family
- Fruits
- Nature
- Perfumer’s accord
- Botanical name
- Musa
- Origin
- The fruit of the banana plant, recreated in perfumery by an accord.
- How it is obtained
- Recomposed by the perfumer
- On Volute
- 1 fragrance