White Floral

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White flowers are some of the romantic in perfumery: lilies, jasmine, ylang ylang, lily of the valley. When these dominate, the fragrance is known as a ‘white floral’. Perfect for weddings (as are ‘floral bouquet’ and ‘single note floral’ fragrances): feminine, pretty, often quite sophisticated and elegant. If that’s you, you’ll enjoy exploring this family.

Oriental

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With their spices, musks, incense and resins, the orientals are rooted in perfume’s own history, using many of the same ingredients today that were first enjoyed in the orient – India and Arabia – at the dawn of fragrance creation.

Ingredients like heliotrope, sandalwood, coumarin, orris, vanilla and gum resins are classically used within an oriental fragrance structure – though these can be tweaked, for men, women (and fragrances designed to be ‘shared’).

Seductive, voluptuous and with a va-va-voom, orientals tend to feel ‘grown-up’ – and many have a warm, heavy, diffusive richness that’s more suited to after-dark wearing.  They linger sensually on the skin:  they’re heavy on the base notes, which tend to last longer.  (However, there is a new ‘mini-family’ of fresher orientals, with a lighter touch, and a more ‘daytime’ feel – which you’ll discover when you explore the other categories within this beautiful, exotic family…)

Chypre

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you can enjoy chypre fragrances in which the classic woody, mossy building blocks have been beautifully garlanded with more generous bouquets of flowers, including jasmine and rose, for an impression of sweetness.