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Blackberry Blossom

Q: Is Blackberry Blossom natural or synthetic?

. Extraction: No commercial extraction exists. The flowers are too small and faintly scented for viable production. Entirely a fantasy accord..

FLOWERS / floral · fruity · fresh

Blackberry Blossom

Category	FLOWERS
Subcategory	floral · fruity · fresh
Origin
Volatility	Heart Note
Botanical	Rubus fruticosus
Appearance	Pale yellow to colorless liquid
Odor Strength	Medium
Producing Countries	Europe, North America
Pyramid	Heart

Faint, rosy-green, with a hedge-row wildness. The actual flowers are modest — the perfumery note imagines a slightly wilder, greener rose hip.

Scent
The Full Story
Fun Fact
Extraction & Chemistry
In Perfumery

Scent

Faintly rosy with a green, dewy freshness. Less clean than rose, less sweet than peony. A wild-hedge quality — you sense thorns and morning dew alongside the petals. Honeyed and slightly pollen-dusty.

Evolution over time

Immediately

Faint rosy-green freshness, dewy, pollen-like

After a few hours

Soft honey warmth, wild-rose character

After a few days

Clean green trace, faint floral memory

The Full Story

Blackberry blossom (Rubus fruticosus aggregate) has a delicate scent in nature — faintly rosy, slightly green, with a honey undertone. The flowers are small, white to pink, and not commercially extracted for perfumery.

The fantasy accord draws on the Rubus family's character: a rose-adjacent florality (blackberry is in the rose family, Rosaceae) with more greenness and less refinement. Think of wild dog-rose but less sweet, with a hedgerow character — thorny stems, morning dew, pollen.

Construction might use rose oxide (green-metallic rose), phenylethyl alcohol (rose body), green leaf accords, and a touch of honey. The result should read as 'wild flower in a hedgerow' rather than 'cultivated rose garden.'

Blackberry plants are among the most ecologically successful in temperate regions — R. fruticosus is actually an aggregate of over 400 microspecies, making it a taxonomically complex groups in botany.

This note in Première Peau. Nuit Elastique · Rose Monotone. Sample all seven extraits in the Discovery Set.

Did You Know?

Did you know?

Rubus fruticosus is not a single species but an 'aggregate' of over 400 closely related microspecies, many of which can only be distinguished by specialists examining the shapes of thorns and leaf serrations under magnification.

Extraction & Chemistry

Extraction method: No commercial extraction exists. The flowers are too small and faintly scented for viable production. Entirely a fantasy accord.

Molecular Formula	complex mixture (linalool, geraniol, nerol)
CAS Number	N/A — no commercial essential oil from blossoms
Botanical Name	Rubus fruticosus
IFRA Status	No known restrictions
Synonyms	BLACKBERRY FLOWER · RUBUS BLOSSOM
Physical Properties
Odor Strength	Medium
Appearance	Pale yellow to colorless liquid
Specific Gravity	0.870 to 0.920 @ 25 °C (est)

In Perfumery

Fantasy floral providing a wild, green-rosy character. No natural extraction exists. Built from rose-adjacent synthetics (rose oxide, PEA) and green-leaf accords. Useful in compositions evoking hedgerow, wild garden, or English countryside atmospheres. Functions as a softer, greener alternative to rose.