Boysenberry
Cooked-down blackberry jam with a raspberry tang and a faint violet undertone. No boysenberry extract exists in perfumery — the note is a fantasy accord built from frambinone, beta-ionone, and furaneol, approximating the overripe, almost winey sweetness of the actual fruit.
- Type
- Akord
- Olfactive family
- Voćni
- Source
- synthetic reconstruction (fantasy accord)
- Chemical class
- fantasy note (accord)
Miris
Detaljno
Dobijanje i hemija
Način dobijanja
No boysenberry essential oil, absolute, or CO2 extract exists. The note is a fantasy accord — a reconstruction assembled from synthetic aroma chemicals. Core building blocks include frambinone (raspberry ketone, CAS 5471-51-2, a para-hydroxyphenyl ketone), beta-ionone (CAS 14901-07-6, a C13 norisoprenoid), and furaneol (CAS 3658-77-3, a hydroxyfuranone). Supporting materials vary by formulator but commonly include ethyl 2-methylbutyrate (CAS 7452-79-1) for ester lift, gamma-decalactone for lactonic creaminess, and styralyl butyrate for floral-fruity body. No natural extraction is commercially viable because boysenberry fruit volatiles exist at trace concentrations insufficient for economic isolation.
- Formula
- complex mixture (multiple esters, anthocyanins)
- CAS
- N/A — natural fruit, no single CAS
- Botanički naziv
- Rubus ursinus × idaeus
- Izgled
- N/A — fantasy accord, no single material
- Jačina mirisa
- Srednji
- Sinonimi
- BOYSEN BERRY BOYSEN'S BERRY
No known restrictions
- Relativna gustina
- 0.990 to 1.050 @ 25 °C (est)
U parfemima
Boysenberry is a fantasy accord — no natural extract exists. It functions as a top-to-heart fruity note, constructed primarily from frambinone (CAS 5471-51-2), beta-ionone (CAS 14901-07-6), and furaneol (CAS 3658-77-3), with supporting esters and lactones. The accord provides a jammy, dark-fruit sweetness that reads as more complex than single-molecule berry notes. In composition, it works as a fruity modifier in gourmand and fruity-floral families — adding a cooked, winey depth that lighter fruit notes (peach, pear, apple) cannot deliver. The beta-ionone component gives boysenberry accords a useful bridge into violet and iris territory, allowing perfumers to connect a fruity opening to a powdery-floral heart without a jarring transition. Boysenberry pairs structurally with dark florals (rose absolute, violet leaf), warm spices (black pepper, pink pepper), and base-note anchors like vanilla, tonka, and patchouli. It can also sharpen citrus openings when used sparingly alongside bergamot or blood orange. The note has no IFRA restrictions of its own — constraints depend entirely on which individual molecules are used to build the accord.
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