Is White Mulberry natural or synthetic?

A fantasy or concept note, not a single material.

White Mulberry

AccordFRUITS, VEGETABLES & NUTSfruity · sweet · fresh

HeartPyramid

3/5Strength

—Tenacity

2Origins

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Specimen

White Mulberry perfume ingredient — Heart

Morus alba

Fantasy/Concept

Definition

Pale, honeyed sweetness — a reconstructed berry accord evoking white mulberry (Morus alba) or its darker, tarter cousin Morus nigra. No commercial extract exists.

FRUITY SWEET HONEYED SOFT BERRY

MORUS ALBA WHITE MULBERRY FRUIT

Type: Accord
Olfactive family: Fruity
Subfamily: Berry notes
Cluster: Berry notes
Source: fruit
Chemical class: composed accord (fantasy/concept)

Instruments

Pyramid

TTop

HHeart

BBase

3/5Strength

Medium

odour strength

Producing countries

China India

Scent

White mulberry opens soft and honey-sweet — the gentler of the two cultural mulberries, less tart than black, with a translucent juicy quality that lacks the wine-dark depth of Morus nigra. The reconstruction sits between blackberry and grape, sweeter and more honeyed than either. On skin it fades within the first hour, leaving a faint sweet-fruity memory.

In PREMIEREPEAU

DISCOVERY SET7 × 2 ml →EXTRAIT DE PARFUMThe seven extraits →

The Full Story

Mulberry has two principal cultural species: white mulberry (Morus alba), the silkworm tree of East Asian agriculture, and black mulberry (Morus nigra), the more aromatic culinary species of the Mediterranean and Middle East. Both belong to the Moraceae family. The fruit — botanically a multiple fruit, like the fig — is pale and gently sweet in M. alba; deep purple-black, sharper and more tannic, in M. nigra.

In perfumery

There is no commercial mulberry extract. The fruit is too perishable and its aroma too water-soluble for industrial extraction. The 'mulberry' note in fragrance is always a reconstruction, built around damascenone (CAS 23696-85-7) [A], raspberry ketone, ethyl maltol and a small ester palette. The reconstruction sits between blackberry and grape, sweeter and more honeyed than either.

Sources & Notes

[A] PubChem CID 5366074 — β-damascenone, CAS 23696-85-7, C₁₃H₁₈O. pubchem.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/compound/5366074.

Did You Know?

Mulberry is the silkworm's only food. Bombyx mori — the silk moth — eats nothing but the leaves of Morus alba (white mulberry); its entire 5,000-year domestication is bound to that single botanical relationship. Chinese silk production is, in a literal sense, mulberry leaves passed through a caterpillar. The fruit is incidental — a byproduct of an industrial relationship between two species.

Extraction & Chemistry

Extraction method

Not applicable. No commercial mulberry essential oil, absolute or CO₂ extract exists. The fruit's volatile profile is dominated by water-soluble esters that do not survive extraction at scale. The mulberry note in perfumery is always a reconstruction.

Formula: N/A — no standard isolate
CAS: N/A — no commercial essential oil
Botanical: Morus alba
Appearance: N/A (fantasy note — no commercial extract exists)
Odour strength: Medium
Synonyms: MORUS ALBA WHITE MULBERRY FRUIT

IFRA status

No restriction

No known restrictions

Physical properties

Note: No single CAS — reconstructed accord. Two species in cultural and culinary use: Morus alba (white mulberry, silkworm feed) and Morus nigra (black mulberry, principal culinary species).

In Perfumery

Mulberry in perfumery is a reconstructed accord, used sparingly as a fruity heart-note modifier. It sits between blackberry and grape, sweeter and more honeyed than either, less tart than raspberry. Often built around damascenone, ethyl maltol, raspberry ketone, and a small ester palette. Not used in any current PREMIEREPEAU composition.

Role in the formula

01modifier

02signature note

03lifting agent

04blender

05freshness

Available as

synthetic accord fantasy note