Run your fingers over the leaves of a redcurrant bush, and you’ll get a ‘catty’ quality that’s distinctive, intriguing – but not to everyone’s taste. The fruit of Ribes rubrum itself, though, is fruity, green and tart, often incorporated into a ‘cocktail’ of fruity notes which are then woven mostly into fruity-florals: that category of perfumes whose star has been in the ascendant, in recent years – often fresh, youthful and vibrant. (Whitecurrants, which have a slightly sweeter quality – almost an ‘albino’ version of the redcurrant, and also a member of the gooseberry family – are also very occasionally used.)
Smell redcurrant in:
Goutal Quel Amour
Boadicea The Victorious Magnificent
Cartier Les Heures de Cartier L’Heure Folle X
Chopard Wish Pure
Donna Karan DKNY Be Delicious Sparkling Apple
Fresh Love
Kim Kardashian Love Kim
