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A soft juicy fruit smell with sweet, floral and ripe summer character.
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Peach smells soft, juicy and sweet, with a floral note that rises clearly from ripe fruit. EDITORIAL
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QUESTIONS ABOUT PEACH
Peach smells soft, juicy and sweet, with a floral note that rises clearly from ripe fruit. The skin adds a slightly fuzzy, green freshness, while very ripe flesh becomes heavy, honeyed and close to apricot. The smell is gentle when the fruit is hard and grows fuller as it softens, and it can be mistaken for nectarine or a peach-flavoured sweet.
It is met at summer markets and fruit stalls, in kitchen bowls of ripening fruit and in desserts such as pies and crumbles. Many people link it with warm afternoons and picking ripe fruit in season.
Typical settings: ripe fruit, market, dessert.
SmellBook links it to 2 place pages: see them in Connections.
One VERIFIED scientific claim from one published source is recorded for this entry: Key contributors to peach aroma. This claim says only what its source supports, in the scope shown with it.
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4 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.
Peach is a fresh-fruit profile whose smell changes with ripeness and variety.
SmellBook records one written comparison with other smells: see it in Connections.
Words that are easy to mix up: Why is creamy not just sweet? and Where do floral and powdery meet?
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Scientific evidence · 1 claim
Key contributors to peach aroma
An analysis of peach varieties found alcohols, ketones, esters and aldehydes contributed most to the aroma, and identified (E,E)-2,6-nonadienal, γ-decalactone, β-ionone and hexyl hexanoate as key contributors.
Peach types from one region, ranked by relative odour activity values without olfactometry.
How this was found: Odour activity estimate. Compounds were measured and compared with known odour thresholds; nobody smelled this sample to confirm it. Source: primary study; chemistry work.
Ping Sun, Bing Xu, Yi Wang, Xianrui Lin, Chenfei Chen, Jianxi Zhu, Huijuan Jia, Xinwei Wang, Jiansheng Shen & Tao Feng
DOI 10.3389/fnut.2022.965796Each 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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Peach is a fresh-fruit profile whose smell changes with ripeness and variety.
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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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