FRUITS, VEGETABLES AND NUTS / tropical · sulphurous · sweet
Jackfruit
Category
FRUITS, VEGETABLES AND NUTS
Subcategory
tropical · sulphurous · sweet
Origin
Volatility
Heart
Botanical
Artocarpus heterophyllus Lam., Moraceae (the mulberry / fig family)
Odor Strength
High
Producing Countries
India (largest producer — Kerala, Tamil Nadu, Karnataka, West Bengal), Bangladesh, Sri Lanka, Indonesia, Philippines, Thailand, Malaysia, Vietnam; minor production in Florida, Brazil and East Africa.
Pyramid
Heart
A reconstructed tropical-fruit accord — sweet, ester-heavy, ripe-juicy with a sulphurous undertone. The world's largest tree fruit (Artocarpus heterophyllus, Moraceae) carries a distinctive aroma that lies between banana, pineapple and mango, with a faint sulphurous depth from trace methional and dimethyl sulphide.
Sharp ester-fruity top — ethyl 2-methylbutanoate and isoamyl acetate forward, banana-and-pineapple register.
After a few hours
After a few hours
The trace sulphur compounds emerge as a faint underdraft; the accord settles into a riper, slightly fermented register.
After a few days
After a few days
A quiet ester memory; the tropical character has burned off, leaving a faint sweet-fruity tail.
The Full Story
Jackfruit (Artocarpus heterophyllus Lam., Moraceae) is the world's largest tree-borne fruit — single specimens routinely weigh 30 to 50 kg. Native to the Western Ghats of India and now cultivated across Southeast Asia, the Pacific and tropical America, the species belongs to the mulberry/fig family and shares the multiple-fruit botanical structure of its cousins.
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Aromatic chemistry
The ripe-jackfruit headspace is ester-dominated [A]: ethyl 2-methylbutanoate (CAS 7452-79-1) leads, with isoamyl acetate and isoamyl isovalerate contributing the banana-like and ripe-juicy character, allyl heptanoate for the pineapple angle. Beneath this fruity ester palette runs a faint sulphurous undertone from methional (CAS 3268-49-3) and trace dimethyl sulphide — the same family of compounds that gives durian its more notorious character, here at much lower concentration. The accord reads sweet, ripe, slightly fermented, tropical.
In perfumery
Jackfruit has no commercial perfumery extract — water-soluble esters and trace thiols do not survive industrial extraction. The fragrance note is always a reconstruction, built from the headspace-identified compounds at perfumery dilution. Jackfruit accords pair naturally with banana, pineapple, mango, lychee and other tropical-fruit reconstructions, with coconut lactones for tropical-creamy body, and with white florals (tiare, frangipani) for full tropical compositions.
Sources & Notes
[A] PubChem CID 24020 — ethyl 2-methylbutanoate, CAS 7452-79-1. Dominant ripe-fruity ester of jackfruit. See: Lin & Wang (2018), 'Volatile compounds of ripe Artocarpus heterophyllus,' Food Chem. pubchem.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/compound/24020.
Did You Know?
Did you know?
Jackfruit is the world's largest tree-borne fruit — a single fruit can weigh 30 to 50 kg, occasionally up to 55 kg, and contain hundreds of seeds. It is also the national fruit of Bangladesh and the state fruit of Kerala (India) and Tamil Nadu. The unripe flesh has a fibrous, meat-like texture that has driven the modern Western interest in jackfruit as a meat substitute. The species is in the same family (Moraceae) as the mulberry, the fig, and the breadfruit — all share the milky latex and multiple-fruit botanical structure.
Extraction & Chemistry
Extraction method: Not applicable. There is no commercial jackfruit essential oil, absolute or CO₂ extract — the fruit's volatile profile is dominated by water-soluble esters and trace thiols that do not survive industrial extraction. The aromatic accord is reconstructed from synthetic ester blocks plus trace sulphur compounds for the characteristic undertone.
Not assigned to jackfruit as a perfumery material — no commercial extract. Reconstructed accord. Key signature compounds: ethyl 2-methylbutanoate (CAS 7452-79-1) for ripe-fruity ester top; isoamyl isovalerate (CAS 659-70-1); 3-methylbutyl acetate (isoamyl acetate, CAS 123-92-2) for banana-like lift; allyl heptanoate (CAS 142-19-8) for pineapple character; trace methional (CAS 3268-49-3) for the sulphurous undertone.
Botanical Name
Artocarpus heterophyllus Lam., Moraceae (the mulberry / fig family)
IFRA Status
Not applicable — reconstructed accord. Constituent ester building blocks are unrestricted at perfumery levels; trace methional and dimethyl sulphide carry no quantitative IFRA limits at the parts-per-billion concentrations used.
Synonyms
ARTOCARPUS HETEROPHYLLUS · JACK · JAKFRUIT · KATHAL · NANGKA
Physical Properties
Odor Strength
High
In Perfumery
Jackfruit is a Fantasy/Concept tropical accord — there is no commercial extract. It sits in the heart, lending a juicy ester-tropical lift. It pairs naturally with banana, pineapple, mango and lychee reconstructions, with coconut lactones for tropical-creamy body, and with white florals (tiare, frangipani) for full tropical-floral compositions. Not used in any current Première Peau composition.
