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A fresh juicy fruit smell ranging from green and crisp to dark and sweet.
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Grapes smell fresh and juicy, with a clean sweetness that ranges widely by variety. EDITORIAL
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QUESTIONS ABOUT GRAPE
Grapes smell fresh and juicy, with a clean sweetness that ranges widely by variety. Green grapes come across crisp, light and slightly tart, while dark grapes lean deeper, jammier and closer to grape juice or sweets. The skin adds a faint dusty, leafy note, and the overall impression is gentle and fades quickly once the bunch is out of reach.
Bunches in a fruit bowl, crates at a market, picnic boxes and lunch tins are typical places to notice it. A stronger, sweeter version greets people near vineyards at harvest time and around jars of grape juice or jam.
Typical settings: fruit bowl, market, picnic.
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One VERIFIED scientific claim from one published source is recorded for this entry: Impact odorants of red grape juice. This claim says only what its source supports, in the scope shown with it.
3 molecules are named in this claim; see the evidence for the role the claim gives them. Each molecule this claim names has only the role the claim states; one molecule is not the whole smell.
Grape is a broad fruit profile and does not represent wine or fermented grape aroma.
Words that are easy to mix up: Is fresh the same as clean?, Why is creamy not just sweet? and Is citrus a kind of fresh?
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Scientific evidence · 1 claim
Impact odorants of red grape juice
Aroma extract dilution analysis of Cabernet Sauvignon grape juice found 3-(methylsulfanyl)propanal, (E,Z)-nona-2,6-dienal and decanal to have the highest flavour dilution factors among its impact odorants.
Juice of one Bordeaux red grape variety (Cabernet Sauvignon); the study also covers Cabernet Sauvignon and Merlot wines and the yeast used for fermentation.
How this was found: Odour analysis with human assessors. People smelled the separated compounds or the material itself (for example gas chromatography–olfactometry, dilution analysis, recombination or a sensory panel). Source: primary study; sensory or perception work.
Yorgos Kotseridis & Raymond Baumes
Journal of Agricultural and Food Chemistry
DOI 10.1021/jf990565iEach molecule is named by the claim shown after it. Each molecule named here has only the role the claim states; one molecule is not the whole smell. About molecules in SmellBook
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Grape is a broad fruit profile and does not represent wine or fermented grape aroma.
Editorial description expanded to answer what it smells like and where you meet it; independently reviewed.
Created 2026-09-22 · Updated 2026-10-06Dataset history In the SmellBook dataset since the first of three dataset releases of 2026-09-30.
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