Base Ingredient Overview
📝 Odor Type: Fruity-green
📈 Odor Strength: Medium
👃🏼 Odor Profile: Juicy pear, crisp, fresh, slightly watery with floral-green nuance
⚗️ Uses: Fruity top note builder, freshness enhancer, floral-fruit modifier
🧴 Appearance: Colorless to pale yellow liquid
What is Pear Base?
Pear Base is a synthetic fragrance base developed to simulate the clean, vibrant scent of fresh pear. Constructed from a combination of fruity esters, green aldehydes, and subtle floral modifiers, this base achieves a naturalistic pear effect without relying on unstable natural extracts. Materials commonly found in such bases include allyl caproate, hexyl acetate, and trace lactones that introduce a sweet-watery pulp note.
Unlike simple single-molecule ingredients, Pear Base delivers a rounded fruit impression with both top-note lift and mild diffusion into the heart of the fragrance, mimicking the multi-dimensional scent of freshly sliced pear.
Olfactory Profile and Perfumery Applications
Pear Base is appreciated for its clean and juicy character, which blends easily into:
Fruity-floral perfumes, enhancing transparency and liveliness
Green or aquatic compositions, contributing a crisp watery nuance
Gourmand structures, where it supports apple, melon, and white peach tones
Body care formulations, offering a vibrant and uplifting scent identity
This base also works well in clean and youthful fragrance architectures, adding a light-hearted fruitiness without heaviness or excessive sweetness.
Additional Information
Blending Suggestions:
Effective in combination with muguet materials, cucumber aldehydes, white musks, and other delicate fruity bases like apple, melon, or lychee.
Application Compatibility:
Alcohol- and oil-soluble; suitable for use in fine fragrances, emulsions, and light-bodied body sprays or mists.
Sources
Internal Scentspiracy Base Archive – Fruity Materials Series
Arctander, S. (1969). Pear-Related Aroma Compounds
Peer-reviewed literature on fruity ester blends in perfumery
Fragrance Formulation Workshop Notes – Top Note Construction (2022–2024)