Aromatic & herbal fragrances

Herbal notes such as lavender, sage and rosemary.

Scentorian assigns these categories for browsing. Fragrances can belong to several families; the house may describe them differently.

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212 Men NYC Eau de Toilette

Carolina Herrera — One wearer smelled it on a well-groomed colleague and ordered a bottle, another has worn it for seventeen years, and a third hears New York nightlife from before social media.

4711 Original Eau de Cologne

4711 — For many reviewers this is a brief pleasure: bright, slightly bitter citrus peel, dry herbs and a clean orange-blossom thread, sitting close to the skin and fading quickly..

Acqua di Gio Eau de Toilette

Giorgio Armani — Fresh and woody overall, in wearers' words: a bright, slightly sharp marine opening with bergamot, then a dry cedar background..

African Rooibos Eau de Parfum

Chris Collins — Not the cool green tea most tea fragrances chase: owners describe warm red-bush rooibos with black pepper and cardamom, drying down to cedar and a faint maple-like sweetness.

Arabie Eau de Parfum

Serge Lutens — Dense dried fruit and cumin, with a dark, sticky sweetness and savoury spice.

Aromatics Elixir Eau de Parfum Spray

Clinique — Earthy patchouli and oakmoss carry dry, bitter-green flowers, and that mossiness reads as deep and woody to some reviewers, austere and medicinal to others..

Carolina Herrera — Chocolate is the word that keeps coming back: a soft bar steeped in ambroxan for one owner, a nutty milk chocolate for a tester at an airport, Nutella for a third, and for a fourth a bitter, herbal cocoa smothered by clary sage.

Blackbird Parfum

Olympic Orchids — Ripe blackberry with dry grass, fir balsam and resinous cedar.

Bleu de Chanel Eau de Parfum

Chanel — Citrus and pepper up front, then ginger and smooth sandalwood, finishing musky and woody with a thread of incense.

BOSS Bottled Infinite Eau de Parfum

Hugo Boss — Green apple opens it, cut with cinnamon and mandarin, before lavender, rosemary and an olive-wood dryness carry it to a scrubbed finish that owner after owner names shower gel, some in praise and some with a shrug.

BOSS Bottled Night Eau de Toilette

Hugo Boss — The evening twin of BOSS Bottled, which the house ties to a wood called Louro Amarelo; wearers pick out lavender, violet and a smoky birch, and one first met it in an uncle's office years before buying a bottle.

Carnal Flower Eau de Parfum

Editions de Parfums Frédéric Malle — Tuberose front and centre, with a cool, green eucalyptus-and-melon opening.

Champaca Parfum

Ormonde Jayne — Moderate, close wear is the usual report for this creamy champaca and freesia on warm, starchy rice, freshened by green tea and bamboo..

Concrete

Comme des Garçons — Its mineral side divides reviewers, chalk or cement dust for some and a sherbet or bubblegum sweetness for others, set among cumin, clove and a metallic rose on creamy, powdery wood..

Cool Water Eau de Toilette

Davidoff — Still the cleanest thing to wear on a hot day, to its owners, this is the blue aquatic that set the template: mint, lavender and a salty, ozonic splash on musk.

Cool Water Parfum

Davidoff — Pink pepper opens it, Haitian vetiver runs the middle and sandalwood closes: a Cool Water in name that owner after owner says has little to do with the original, spicier and sweeter, nearer Sauvage or Invictus than the 1988 aquatic.

Cristalle Eau de Toilette

Chanel — Sharp citrus and cool, green hyacinth with jasmine beneath, turning close and transparent as it goes on, in many wearers' experience..

Curve for Men Eau de Cologne

Liz Claiborne — First worn by many as schoolboys, it was a bargain-shelf compliment-getter of the late 1990s and 2000s, and one fan remembers a poor man's pineapple scent that got there before Creed: pineapple and bergamot on green, peppery herbs, drying to a soft woody musk.

Drakkar Noir Eau de Toilette

Guy Laroche — The fougère a generation of men wore for going out: lavender and aromatic herbs on a dark barbershop base.

Encelade

Marc-Antoine Barrois — Sour rhubarb, damp earth and leather with a strong green character, which some wearers liken to tomato leaf, compost or burnt matches.

Eros Eau de Toilette

Versace — Subtle it is not, for many wearers, who describe strong projection and long wear from its mint and sweet apple on cedar, vetiver and vanilla..

Eternity for Men Eau de Toilette

Calvin Klein — Candied lemon peel and something like washed lettuce greet one owner; others meet mandarin and lavender, then sage, basil and geranium settling over soft woods.

Explorer Eau de Parfum

Montblanc — Fresh bergamot, pepper and a smoky, woody ambroxan base, with no pineapple in it.

Explorer Platinum Eau de Parfum

Montblanc — Violet leaf leads, green and faintly metallic, over clary sage and a cedar that several owners call creamy rather than dry; a coconut-water sweetness turns up again and again, though no coconut is listed.

Fantosmia Eau de Parfum

Jorum Studio — Dense and slightly medicinal to many wearers, drawing closer as it settles: pepper, pimento and fennel, green shiso and mate, over tobacco and leather..

Fig-Tea Eau de Toilette

Nicolaï — Osmanthus, orange and green tea with an apricot-like davana accent, on a soft guaiac-and-amber background.

Green Tea Scent Spray

Elizabeth Arden — Lemon and bergamot, then leafy green tea with a celery-seed accent.

Happy for Men Eau de Toilette

Clinique — Clinique brings out the lemon press and the mandarin peeler, as one reviewer puts it: a bright citrus with a herbal, marine cool, one wearer's first fragrance friend and another's turn-of-the-millennium gift.

HUGO Man Eau de Toilette

Hugo Boss — For several wearers this was the first real aftershave, the canteen-shaped flask of 1990s school discos, and an owner in their late fifties still wears it.

Hwyl

Aesop — Dry thyme and elemi, wood dust and incense.

Jasmin et Cigarette Eau de Parfum

Etat Libre d'Orange — In the accounts of those who wear it: rich jasmine and cold tobacco ash, a dry turmeric accent, and a little tonka sweetness under the smoky floral..

K by Dolce&Gabbana Eau de Toilette

Dolce&Gabbana — Blood orange, lemon and juniper open it, then a chili-pepper sharpness, lavender and a woody close; one owner wears it on every trip to Italy for its coastal feel, another hears the shower gel of a childhood swimming club.

Kouros Eau de Toilette

Yves Saint Laurent — Soap and sweat in the same breath: clove and carnation over a musky, animal warmth that owners liken to clean bedsheets and, less kindly, to a urinal cake.

Le Beau Eau de Toilette

Jean Paul Gaultier — Coconut flakes first, one wearer writes, then a sweet, creamy coconut and tonka that puts two others in mind of a Raffaello praline and a third of a piña colada, sunscreen and all, which does not bother them.

Le Male Eau de Toilette

Jean Paul Gaultier — Lavender and mint over vanilla, with the shaving-soap smell of an old barbershop: the sailor-torso bottle that fought Joop! Homme for the dance floors of the 1990s.

Le Male Elixir Parfum

Jean Paul Gaultier — Le Male on steroids, one owner calls it: a loud minty lavender opening that sinks into honey, tonka and vanilla, sweet enough to score an eleven on another's sugar meter.

Le Male Le Parfum Eau de Parfum Intense

Jean Paul Gaultier — The original Le Male's lavender and vanilla, darkened with a burst of cardamom and a powdery iris: to one owner a rich chocolate dessert made out of the original, to another Le Male's final form.

Legend Eau de Parfum

Montblanc — Two comparisons come up again and again in the reports: a hot shower, and Abercrombie & Fitch's Fierce.

Legend Eau de Toilette

Montblanc — Abercrombie & Fitch's Fierce is the comparison several wearers reach for: citrus and lavender, a slim thread of pineapple, a soft tonka dry-down and, to one reviewer, a trace of Montblanc's own fountain-pen ink.

Libre Eau de Parfum

Yves Saint Laurent — Noticeable at a distance and long-wearing, by the general run of reviews, it pairs sharp, aromatic lavender and orange blossom with sweet vanilla..

Like This Eau de Parfum

Etat Libre d'Orange — Pumpkin and ginger as warm, savoury vegetables and spice, with bright tangerine at the start.

Mémoire d'une Odeur Eau de Parfum

Gucci — Dry, herbal chamomile with a faint honeyed edge, pale jasmine and clean musk, then soft sandalwood and cedar.

Narcisse Noir (2021) Parfum

Caron — Less animalic than older Narcisse Noir, wearers who compare the two often find: dry orange blossom and jonquil, a green, waxy narcissus, and sandalwood and vetiver beneath..

Odeur 71 Eau de Toilette

Comme des Garçons — Hot metal, toner, dust, ink and pencil shavings, with a raw green edge.

Oscar Eau de Toilette

Oscar de la Renta — A classic floral with a barbershop streak: clove and lavender run through it, soapy, faintly smoky and sweet.

Oud for Greatness Eau de Parfum

Initio Parfums Privés — Very strong early projection and long persistence are what many reviewers report from this saffron-and-lavender oud, smooth and sweet, though some accounts describe weaker wear..

Platinum Égoïste Eau de Toilette

Chanel — Cool lavender and rosemary with a bitter, metallic green edge, which sage and geranium carry into a dry woody amber.

Polo Blue Eau de Toilette

Ralph Lauren — Melon and a great deal of cucumber, then basil, sage and a soft suede: a just-showered blue that one owner has reached for three summers running and another, who first wore it in high school, has bought again.

R.E.M. Eau de Parfum

Ariana Grande — Lavender is the axis here: herbal and loud to some noses, a sleepy soft version to others, wrapped in salted caramel and marshmallow with tonka and sandalwood underneath.

Replica From the Garden Eau de Toilette

Maison Margiela — Crushed tomato vine, tart citrus and blackcurrant, with geranium and rose behind the greenery.

Roasted Green Tea Eau de Parfum

J-Scent — Roasted green tea with nutty, savoury peanut and seaweed impressions, cooled by mint and wintergreen before a softer iris-and-vanilla drydown, as reviewers describe it..

Rouge Eau de Parfum

Comme des Garçons — Ginger and pink pepper with earthy, faintly sweet beetroot; later on, wearers say, incense and cistus turn it dry and resinous..

Sauvage Eau de Parfum

Dior — Rounder and a little sweeter than the eau de toilette, by most accounts, with peppery bergamot, lavender and warm spice on a big, clean ambroxan base.

Sel Marin Eau de Parfum

Heeley — Salt, lemon and wet algae with a dry mineral character; the vivid opening often narrows to a close vetiver, wearers say..

Selperniku Eau de Parfum

January Scent Project — A gourmand that is not a dessert: salted butter, apricot and milk, lifted by green cypress.

Series 3 Incense Avignon Eau de Toilette

Comme des Garçons — Cool church incense with dry camomile and elemi, softened a little by vanilla; as the hours pass, many reviewers notice it drawing in, quiet and close..

Steamed Rainbow

D.S. & Durga — Humid pavement, water and a faint plastic edge that wearers liken to pool floats or bubble solution.

Sweet Leaf Eau de Parfum

Room 1015 — Grapefruit, eucalyptus and a green, resinous cannabis accord, with a sharp turpentine accent; wearers find wood and patchouli softening it later..

Tom Yum Eau de Parfum

Parfum Prissana — Lime leaf, lemongrass and galangal with jasmine and coriander: the vivid herbal-citrus opening gives way to a woody patchouli drydown, with generally moderate wear, reviewers say..

Tommy Eau de Toilette

Tommy Hilfiger — Fresh-washed, the scent of 1990s high-school corridors and, to one reviewer, a well-groomed tennis player: spearmint and bergamot, green apple, cranberry and a cotton-soft drydown.

Aromatic & herbal fragrances

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