Kiwi is the bright green, fuzzy-skinned fruit most people know sliced into fruit salads, blended into smoothies or eaten straight from the shell with a spoon - fresh, tart and lightly sweet. There is no usable natural extract of kiwi for perfumery. It is a note you build, however it’s not very commonly found in perfumes. To create a Kiwi note, there’s one star player in our experience: Undecavertol is the closest single-material match we have smelled by a wide margin, a fresh, fruity material whose piercing green character captures the watery green character of kiwi flesh - undecavertol is passable as a kiwi alone within the context of a finished composition. It is also a natural starting point and where almost any kiwi accord should begin. From there, a few materials round it out if you want more dimension: Helional lends the watery (almost dewey) quality of the flesh, while fructalate can be used to add a subtle sucrose-like sweetness that mimics the fruit's natural sugars without turning candied or gourmand. For juiciness, allyl hexanoate is a fruity ester that fits kiwi well - but use it sparingly in trace amounts, since any more will yield pineapple instead. If you want to lift the green facet without tipping into an overtly grassy note, cis-2-hexenol can be used to sharpen the green cleanly.
