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Srednje notePiramida
3/5Jačina
12hTrajnost
5Poreklo
Uzorak
Voštana tikva kao sirovina za parfeme
Srednje note
Benincasa hispida
Fantazijska/konceptualna
Definicija

Faint, watery, almost blank — like biting into the pale flesh of a gourd that has barely decided to taste of anything. Wintermelon in perfumery is a fantasy accord: no essential oil exists. The note is reconstructed from aldehydic and green molecules to carries a cucumber-adjacent freshness stripped of sweetness.

CVETNI ZELEN SLADAK VOĆNI BILJNI SVEŽ
white gourd, ash gourd, winter melon
Type
Akord
Olfactive family
Voćni
Source
Imaginative accord inspired by the mild, cooling flesh of the wax gourd (Benincasa hispida)
Instrumenti
Piramida
GGornje note
SSrednje note
BBazne note
3/5Jačina
Srednja
jačina mirisa
Trajnost na mirisnoj traci
12sati
1 h6 h24 h3 d7 d400 h
Zemlje proizvođači
Kina Indija Indonezija Filipini Tajland

Miris

As a raw fruit: nearly odourless. Hold a slice of peeled wintermelon to the nose and the impression is cool water, a whisper of cucumber rind, and a faint starchy blankness — like smelling the inside of a clean glass. The volatile profile is dominated by green aldehydes (hexenal, hexanal) that register more as 'cut vegetation' than as 'fruit.' Compared to cantaloupe, which is rich in ethyl esters and reads as overtly sweet-fruity, wintermelon is austere, mineral, vegetal. Compared to cucumber, it is even milder — less of the sharp nonadienal bite that gives cucumber its snap.

As a perfumery accord: the reconstructed note is sheerer and more aquatic than the actual fruit. Melonal provides a melon-rind greenness; calone contributes a marine-ozonic transparency; nonanal adds a waxy, slightly floral lift. The overall effect is clean, wet, and deliberately featureless — a negative space rather than a statement. It reads closest to a diluted watermelon rind stripped of sugar.

Detaljno

Wintermelon is not a perfumery ingredient. No essential oil, absolute, or CO2 extract of Benincasa hispida exists in commercial supply chains. The fruit itself is 96% water by weight, with an aroma so faint that even food scientists struggle to characterize it without concentration techniques. In perfumery, 'wintermelon' designates a fantasy accord — a synthetic reconstruction of an idea, not an extraction of a plant.

What does the actual fruit smell like? Barely anything. Wu et al. (Journal of Food Science, 1987) identified the dominant volatiles via Likens-Nickerson distillation and GC-MS as (E)-2-hexenal, n-hexanal, and n-hexyl formate — the same green, grassy C6 aldehydes found in freshly cut leaves and unripe cucumbers. A more detailed study (Food Chemistry, 2010) measured odour activity values and found the most potent odorants to be acetoin (OAV 9,522 — buttery, creamy), nonanal (OAV 24,000 — waxy, aldehydic, faintly floral), and octanal (OAV 8,571 — citrusy, green peel). The composite impression is closer to a dilute cucumber rind with a faint buttery undertone than to anything recognisably 'melon' in the perfumery sense.

The perfumery accord labelled 'wintermel on' is therefore an interpretation. It is typically constructed from melonal (2,6-dimethyl-5-heptenal, CAS 106-72-9) for a green-rind melon quality, cis-3-hexenol (leaf alcohol, CAS 928-96-1) for freshly-cut greenness, nonanal for waxy-aldehydic structure, and calone (CAS 28940-11-6) for aqueous, ozonic transparency. The result is a sheer, almost translucent green-aquatic note — lighter than watermelon, less sweet than cantaloupe, more vegetal than honeydew — used to add watery freshness in modern aquatic and green compositions.

An interesting genetic footnote: certain Southeast Asian cultivars of Benincasa hispida produce 2-acetyl-1-pyrroline (2-AP), the molecule responsible for the aroma of jasmine rice and pandan leaf. A deletion in the BhAMADH gene (encoding aminoaldehyde dehydrogenase) causes 2-AP to accumulate, giving these cultivars a particular 'taro-like' or pandan-like fragrance entirely absent from standard varieties. This aromatic chemotype has no current application in perfumery.

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Related: Bitter Melon · Cucumber · Honeydew Melon · Melon · Watermelon

Dobijanje i hemija

Način dobijanja

No extraction. Benincasa hispida produces no commercial essential oil, absolute, or CO2 extract for perfumery use. The fruit's aroma is too faint and too water-dominated to yield a viable aromatic extract at any practical scale. In perfumery, 'wintermelon' is a fantasy accord reconstructed entirely from synthetic aroma chemicals — principally melonal, cis-3-hexenol, nonanal, and calone — calibrated to approximate the fruit's subtle watery-green-cucurbit character. The actual volatile profile of the fresh fruit, as documented by Wu et al. (J. Food Sci., 1987) via Likens-Nickerson extraction and GC-MS, is dominated by (E)-2-hexenal, n-hexanal, and n-hexyl formate — green, grassy aldehydes typical of cucurbits. A 2010 study (Food Chemistry) identified acetoin (3-hydroxy-2-butanone, CAS 513-86-0) as the major volatile by odour activity value, contributing a buttery, creamy note not typically associated with the perfumery concept of 'wintermelon.'

Formula
N/A — reconstructed accord
CAS
N/A — no standard commercial essential oil
Botanički naziv
Benincasa hispida
Izgled
N/A — fragrance accord
Jačina mirisa
Srednji
Trajnost
6–12 hours
Sinonimi
white gourd, ash gourd, winter melon
Status prema standardima IFRA
Bez ograničenja

No known restrictions

Fizička svojstva
Nota
Benincasa hispida. No commercial essential oil. Fresh, watery, lightly sweet accord in perfumery.

U parfemima

Fantasy accord, not a raw material. No wintermelon essential oil, absolute, or isolate exists in commercial perfumery. The note is built from scratch using synthetic molecules that approximate the fruit's mild, watery-green character. Key construction materials: melonal (2,6-dimethyl-5-heptenal, CAS 106-72-9) for green-melon rind; cis-3-hexenol (leaf alcohol, CAS 928-96-1) for cut-green freshness; nonanal (aldehyde C-9, CAS 124-19-6) for the waxy-aldehydic backbone; and traces of calone (CAS 28940-11-6) for aqueous-ozonic lift. Some formulators add ethyl 2-methylbutyrate for a faint fruity sweetness. The resulting accord reads as a top-to-heart transitional element — lighter than watermelon, less sweet than cantaloupe, more vegetal than honeydew. Functionally, it is a transparent freshness modifier in aquatic, green, and light floral compositions. It bridges citrus top notes toward watery hearts without adding the indolic weight of white florals or the sharpness of aromatic herbs. Not linked to any current PREMIEREPEAU fragrance.

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