BLACKCURRANT
Blackcurrant brings a vivid berry impression, balancing juicy sweetness with a tart edge. A green, aromatic undertone can make it feel like fruit still attached to a leafy branch, rather than a simple berry sweet. In a floral composition, that contrast can give the petals a fresher outline; in a sweeter perfume, the tang can keep the fruit from feeling entirely syrupy.
Also called cassis, blackcurrant is associated with Ribes nigrum. Perfumers can suggest the fruit through an accord, while extracts of the plant's buds offer another, often more assertively green route into its character. The general note name does not specify which material is used. It is useful to distinguish a juicy fruit impression from the sharper, sometimes sulfurous character of a bud extract when exploring fragrances.
