Note

Papaya

Ripe papaya smells musky and sweet, with soft tropical flesh and sometimes a slightly fermented edge. Its reconstructed note adds rounded fruitiness to the opening and heart alongside citrus, white flowers, and coconut.

In 12 perfumes. Usually found in the opening.

Opening
88%
Heart
0%
Drydown
13%
Found in Delights Bon Bon, Toucan and Oro Nero

Most popular with papaya

The best-known perfumes carrying it anywhere in the pyramid.

Often paired with

Notes that show up next to papaya more often than chance would predict.

Too few perfumes to say.

How it reads

Sweet and fruity above all. Reaches for tropical, lactonic and coconut far more often than the catalogue as a whole.

  • sweet
  • fruity
  • tropical
  • vanilla
  • woody
  • citrus
  • floral
  • lactonic