Describe Berry as a Scent

What do melodies of berries smell like?

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This week’s Describe *** as a Scent article celebrates the crossover of seasons from summer to autumn. Berries appear throughout the summer season and start to cross over into the autumn months here in the northern hemisphere.

To be clear, I am not talking about the definition of berries as in botany, but those which we associate with scent and season. So, think strawberry (Fragaria × ananassa), blueberry (Vaccinium spp.), raspberry (Rubus idaeus) and blackberry (Rubus spp.), followed up by elderberry (Sambucus nigra).

Berries aren’t particularly aromatic when compared to, for example, a rose (Rosa spp.). But there are some berry absolutes available and, with a little bit of imagination, you can invoke the aroma of berries in a scent, depending on what the other constituents are and what story you are trying to tell.

In this article, I am going to teach you how to get started with that through the use of scent prompts. Let’s think about some luscious, juicy berry aromas and work their magic into our fragrances!

"Better than any argument is to rise at dawn and pick dew-wet red berries in a cup.”

Wendell Berry, American Novelist and Poet