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The gourmand and fruity notes of passion fruit.
Thanks to its sweet, gourmand, exotic, and tangy scent, the passion fruit notes are available in many varieties. Passion fruit is thus found in emulsions (creams, body milk), in shower gels, shampoos, lotions, soaps, balms, eau de toilette and also in perfumes. Passion fruit is also found in cooking, in desserts, yogurts, and also in drinks.
In perfumery, the nose will use either the fruit itself or the flower, like the passion flower. Since it is not possible to get the oil out of the passion fruit, its smell is made in the lab using chemicals, especially the headspace technique.
Passion fruit and its association with other olfactory families
Of course, passion fruit is part of the fruity family. The fruits combine wonderfully with each other, and the passion fruit goes very well with other exotic fruits such as pineapple, papaya, mango, or even coconut. Passion fruit is most often found in floral and/or fruity scents, like Guerlain's "Love is All," where it is a top note along with tangerine, hazelnut, and rose berry.
Also in Escada's "Island Kiss", a floral/fruity blend that blends passion fruit, mango, and orange. We can also discover the passion fruit at the heart of citrus fragrances, as in Cartier's "Eau de Cartier, zeste de soleil". Here, the composition was built around the passion fruit for a very sunny and luminous result.
Passion fruit is the symbol of the most exotic summer possible. If we already know the soaps and shower gels with the fruity notes of passion, its implication in perfumery is not very well known because it is still rare. Nevertheless, the note of passion fruit is already part of great and beautiful fragrances.
Wearing a perfume can hide multiple ambitions. Indeed, essences serve as much to seduce as to evoke memories or to make travel easier. As such, there are many exotic ingredients to choose from in our fragrances. Among the most tangy of them is the passion fruit.
The many names of passion fruit and its virtues
The passion fruit comes from the grenadilla. It is a climbing plant belonging to the Passifloraceae family. The latter is cultivated for its fruits with edible pulp, called passion fruit or maracudja, a Creole word. On the other hand, passion fruits are called apple-lianas in New Caledonia and Haiti. There is a yellow form of it, quite large. On the other hand, the one we know best is purple and is meant to be slightly smaller.
As with the vine, the passion fruit is grown on stakes and wire. The latter, being a subtropical plant, grows in warm regions and on climbing plants up to 6 m long. Passion fruit contains many black seeds surrounded by an edible orange-colored substance. This has a mild flavor and is also recognized for its many pharmacological properties.
In addition, the passion fruit is famous for its anti-inflammatory properties. Likewise, it treats anxiety and is a powerful antioxidant. In addition, it is rich in phenol polish as well as vitamins. As such, it has long been used in traditional South American medicine to treat multiple ailments such as asthma, insomnia, urinary tract infections, and bronchitis. In the West Indies, its leaves are used for the treatment of high blood pressure. In France, there are many sedative preparations that contain it
Passion fruit in perfumery
As far as perfumery is concerned, the passion fruit is mainly used in feminine creations. It gives them an exotic touch, both fruity and floral. On the other hand, perfumers cannot extract essential oils directly from fruit. They reproduce their scent identically in the laboratory, in particular thanks to the head-space technique, a method developed in the 1970s and aimed at reconstituting the natural scents of a flower as they exist in nature and without them. spoil.
While many of us enjoy the taste of its juicy flesh, it seems that just as many of us enjoy its smell. It is also in perfumes like Angel by Thierry Mugler, Eau de Cartier Zeste de Soleil, Eau de Mandarine Ambrée by Hermès, and Escada Island Kiss.
