PRUNE

Prune in perfume refers to the idea of dried plum: sweet, full fruit with a more concentrated impression than a freshly cut, juicy plum. Demeter’s Prune explicitly takes this dried-fruit character as its inspiration. The useful distinction is dried versus fresh, rather than an assumption that the note must smell of caramel, smoke or wood.

In a composition, a prune-like accord can give fruit a richer setting, while the surrounding notes determine how sweet or dark the whole fragrance feels. The label is an olfactory description, not confirmation of actual dried fruit in the formula. It also differs from French prune, which simply means plum. Look for descriptions of dried fruit and concentrated sweetness when comparing fragrances; the note’s name alone does not establish extraction method, intensity or a fixed place in the scent’s development.