Plum

About Plum

Scent Profile

Plum is a dark fruity note with ripe flesh, sweet-tart depth, wine-like richness, and soft skin texture. It is darker than peach and rounder than many berry notes. Plum can bring a perfume juicy sweetness, but also shadow, moisture, and a velvety sense of ripeness.

Use in Perfumery

Perfumers use plum in fruity, chypre, floral, amber, woody, and gourmand compositions. Rose, jasmine, patchouli, cinnamon, vanilla, sandalwood, musk, labdanum, and dark woods all pair well with it. Plum can make flowers more sensual and can give woods or ambers a rich fruit-stained glow.

Did You Know?

A subtle tart edge keeps the richness from becoming too heavy, especially when plum is paired with rose, patchouli, vanilla, or amber in evening compositions with depth and softness on skin. Plum notes are usually constructed as accords, which allows perfumers to choose between fresh fruit, jam, wine, dried fruit, or velvety skin. That flexibility makes plum useful when a fragrance needs fruitiness with depth rather than a bright candy-like opening. It can suggest evening light, ripe flesh, and polished darkness.