Skip to content
Scentorian
Menu

Floral fragrances

Flower notes, from a single rose or jasmine to a mixed bouquet.

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

1–60 of 102

1 Million Elixir Parfum Intense

Rabanne — A tart apple that turns to sweet vanilla and rose, as one daily wearer describes it, with an almost cinnamon edge that another traces to davana; to a third it smells like the sexiest couple you know.

5th Avenue Eau de Parfum

Elizabeth Arden — Lilac, lily of the valley and linden blossom, clean as a fresh white shirt: a polished 1990s floral that one owner kept for a conservative office and another traced, on a dog walk, to a woman of 84.

A Drop d'Issey Eau de Parfum

Issey Miyake Parfums — Soft in projection, wearers often find, and anywhere from short to long in duration: creamy almond milk, lilac and rose on a powdery vanilla..

Alien Eau de Parfum

Mugler — Current bottles project strongly and persist, by many wearers' accounts, with jasmine sambac in the lead and warm cashmeran and amber behind it..

Amazing Grace Eau de Toilette

Philosophy — Clean laundry and soap in a bottle: a soft, powdery floral that reads as freshly showered, quiet enough for a library and unlikely to offend anyone.

Ari Eau de Parfum

Ariana Grande — Juicy pear, pink grapefruit and raspberry open sharp and sparkling, then muguet and rose settle into a marshmallow that several wearers place exactly: the coloured ones from the supermarket bag.

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..

Baccarat Rouge 540 Eau de Parfum

Maison Francis Kurkdjian — Opinion splits hard between captivating and cloying on this spun-sugar-and-saffron scent, laid over a vast ambergris-and-dry-wood accord that some noses read as medicinal or metallic.

Beautiful Eau de Parfum

Estée Lauder — One owner, given it as a high-school Christmas present in the mid-1980s, now wears nothing else, and for many it has been a signature since the 1980s: a lush bouquet of rose, lily, tuberose and lily of the valley on creamy sandalwood.

Bee Extrait de Parfum

Zoologist — Honey built without honey: the house uses beeswax and a royal-jelly accord, and wearers describe waxy, golden florals, mimosa and orange flower, over benzoin and vanilla.

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.

Bright Crystal Eau de Toilette

Versace — Tart rather than sugary, pomegranate and yuzu sit on an icy, watery lotus: to one fan, an iced floral lemonade on a hot day.

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..

Coco Mademoiselle Eau de Parfum

Chanel — It opens loud and settles closer, as many reviewers tell it, with orange, rose and jasmine resting on a prominent patchouli base..

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 Woman Eau de Toilette

Davidoff — Cold, sharp and fruity, to the wearer who made it their first love; to another, an icy gulp of water on a summer day, or what the Windows XP hills would smell like.

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..

Daisy Eau de Toilette

Marc Jacobs — Staying close and lasting a few hours, by reviewers' general account, this is light wild berries and white violet on soft sandalwood..

Dom Rosa Eau de Parfum

Liquides Imaginaires — Rosé in a glass: wearers describe fizzing grapefruit and pear, a dry rose and something like chalky vineyard soil, closer to a wine bar than a flower shop.

Dune

Dior — Dry mineral air, sea breeze and a faint hay-like sweetness, likened by reviewers to pebbles, driftwood and dust.

En Passant

Editions de Parfums Frédéric Malle — Wet lilac and cucumber with a warm, dough-like accent.

Eternity for Women Eau de Parfum

Calvin Klein — Lily of the valley, carnation and a sprig of sage, scrubbed so clean that wearers keep reaching for the laundry: detergent, soap, a crisp white shirt.

Euphoria Eau de Parfum

Calvin Klein — Dark fruit and pomegranate sinking into black orchid, creamy amber and wood: a purple, faintly witchy scent its fans save for evenings and winter.

Fahrenheit Eau de Toilette

Dior — Mandarin, green violet and smoky leather, with an opening wearers keep likening to petrol or hot rubber.

Fame Eau de Parfum

Rabanne — A robot-shaped bottle holding juicy mango, jasmine and a creamy vanilla that wearers liken to a mango mousse or fruit ice cream, and two catch a coconut the house never lists.

Fantasy Eau de Parfum

Britney Spears — Sweet enough to bite, as one owner puts it: fruit and cupcake over a creamy, musky base, comforting rather than grown-up.

Fathom V

BeauFort London — Cold green stems, pond water and lilies: a florist's refrigerator, in the comparison reviewers reach for most often.

Fig-Tea Eau de Toilette

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

Flower by Kenzo

Kenzo — Lipstick and face powder are the comparisons that come up for this powdery violet and rose on vanilla.

Flowerbomb Eau de Parfum

Viktor&Rolf — Dense and sweet, this floral sits on an earthy, patchouli-like background, and most reports describe substantial projection and long wear..

Gaultier Divine Eau de Parfum

Jean Paul Gaultier — Watermelon eaten near the rind, one wearer says, then lily and salt on a sea breeze, with creamy vanilla and meringue beneath; to another it is a luscious dessert by the beach until a wave leaves a mouthful of sea water.

Glow Eau de Toilette

Jennifer Lopez — Just-showered skin is the brief, and wearers say it delivers: clean soap, cold cream and body lotion over a soft, musky powder.

God is a Woman Eau de Parfum

Ariana Grande — Pear carries this one and the wearers know it: fresh-cut, watery, candied, stored in its own juice, dipped in caramel.

Good Girl Blush Eau de Parfum

Carolina Herrera — Peony leads, dewy and almost rose-like, with bergamot and a powdery bitter almond before vanilla and tonka settle it; one wearer first thought of Tommy Girl, another of Delina.

Gucci Rush Eau de Toilette

Gucci — Creamy peach, gardenia and vanilla over mossy patchouli, with the strong projection and long wear that wearers commonly report..

Happy Eau de Parfum

Clinique — Fresh, clean and light, and the kind of scent strangers stop you to ask about: owners who have worn it for decades tell of colleagues and students wanting the name.

Her Eau de Parfum

Burberry — The limited reports describe jammy berries, violet, clean musk and dry amber.

Hibiscus Mahajád Extrait de Parfum

Maison Crivelli — Tart hibiscus tea and rose preserve lead, cut with spearmint and blackcurrant, before vanilla and a supple leather take over.

Insolence Eau de Parfum

Guerlain — Violet in its loudest form: owners reach for Parma-violet sweets, grape candy and lipstick powder, with red berries and orange blossom behind it.

J'adore Eau de Parfum

Dior — The house describes a jasmine-centred floral with warm ylang-ylang, Damascus rose and fruity facets of jasmine grandiflorum and jasmine sambac.

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..

Juicy Couture Eau de Parfum

Juicy Couture — Tuberose with buttered popcorn, two wearers find, or a white-flower bouquet over watermelon and caramel crème that one self-declared tuberose hater keeps returning to into the 2020s.

L'Air du Temps Eau de Toilette

Nina Ricci — Carnation with its clove bite, softened by gardenia, rose and jasmine and settled on powdery sandalwood and iris.

La Vie Est Belle Eau de Parfum

Lancôme — Strong projection and long wear are the norm in reviewers' reports of this sweet, powdery iris on a prominent patchouli base..

Lady Million Eau de Parfum

Rabanne — Sweet, loud and glossy, this is the scent that, one wearer says, gets them followed around the office: raspberry and orange blossom drizzled with honey on jasmine and patchouli.

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..

Light Blue Eau de Toilette

Dolce&Gabbana — Crisp and fresh is how wearers put it: sharp lemon and green apple against a light cedar background..

Like This Eau de Parfum

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

61–102 of 102

Loulou Eau de Parfum

Cacharel — Purple, spiced and unmistakably of the eighties: a sweet floral with powder and a dense vanilla heart that wearers have come back to for decades.

Lovely Eau de Parfum

Sarah Jessica Parker — Musk dominates for many wearers, under a lavender-and-bergamot opening and a soft floral heart, and the argument is whether it is the bargain twin of Narciso Rodriguez For Her or a pale copy.

Lust Perfume

Lush — Jasmine the way the flower really smells, which is the whole argument about it.

Million Gold for Her Eau de Parfum

Rabanne — For one reviewer the dry-down is the whole point: they smelled it on their boyfriend's chest, found that store strips could not match it, and bought a bottle once a stray spray landed on a finger.

MOD Blush Eau de Parfum

Ariana Grande — Raspberry and passionfruit hit first and hard — a fruit explosion, in one wearer's words, with a ripe peach nobody can find on the note list — before magnolia and rose soften it and an ambery wood holds the end.

Modern Muse Eau de Parfum

Estée Lauder — Strangers stop wearers to ask what it is, and one owner's car still smells of it at the end of the workday: a white-floral bouquet led by jasmine, with honeysuckle, tuberose and lily on patchouli, vanilla and a woody musk.

Moth Extrait de Parfum

Zoologist — Dust, honey and smoke: wearers describe an old wardrobe opened after years, powdery flowers and burnt honey, once a loud spice-cabinet opening has passed, which some read as medicinal or metallic.

N°5 Eau de Parfum

Chanel — This is the fuller 1986 Eau de Parfum, and wearers speak of it on its own terms: the aldehydic sparkle first, then rose, jasmine and ylang-ylang settling over a soft vanilla warmth.

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.

Passage d'Enfer

L'Artisan Parfumeur — Cool incense and white lily with an impression of stone.

Pleasures Eau de Parfum

Estée Lauder — Cut grass and dewy white flowers, lily, peony and lilac, as clean as an expensive soap: the 1990s spring floral that many have worn for decades and still get asked about.

Portrait of a Lady Eau de Parfum

Editions de Parfums Frédéric Malle — Rose and patchouli with clove, tart fruit and frankincense, in a texture many reviewers call rich; they also describe it projecting strongly and lasting long..

Pure Grace Eau de Toilette

Philosophy — Soap and water, mostly: laundry off the line to one wearer, a white T-shirt to another, Nivea cream out of the cold blue tin to a third.

Red Door Eau de Toilette

Elizabeth Arden — A big, honeyed bouquet of rose, orange blossom and white flowers that turns warm and spicy: the smell of the early nineties to those who were there, and a powerhouse of which one spray is plenty.

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..

Sacred Scarab Extrait de Parfum

Zoologist — Lemon and aldehydes fizz like a freshly opened bottle of wine, then the room goes dark: resins, dried fruit, myrrh and a musky, animal warmth that some wear as ritual incense.

Salome Eau de Parfum

Papillon Artisan Perfumes — Jasmine and rose with the lights turned down: cumin, honeyed musk and a warm animalic purr that wearers compare to Bal à Versailles and other vintage chypres.

Scandal Eau de Parfum

Jean Paul Gaultier — Blood orange and a flood of honey over gardenia and patchouli, with a beeswax, faintly animal warmth that fans call sexy, in a kitschy showstopper of a bottle.

Sécrétions Magnifiques Eau de Parfum

Etat Libre d'Orange — Reactions divide sharply to its salty, metallic and milky accords, sometimes likened to blood, set on iris and sandalwood; what many reviewers agree on is that it projects hard and does not let go..

Sensuous Eau de Parfum

Estée Lauder — Sun-warmed skin after a day outdoors, to one wearer; the softest angora and cashmere, to another: honeyed woods and amber with a haze of white flowers and pepper.

Shalimar Eau de Parfum

Guerlain — To some reviewers the sharp bergamot opening reads rubbery or animalic before the softer vanilla arrives; beneath it lie powdery vanilla and tonka, smoky leather and resin..

Snowy Owl Extrait de Parfum

Zoologist — Cold rather than sweet: wearers describe snow, cold stone, chalky iris and the water left in a vase, with mint and a little coconut lotion at the edges.

Steamed Rainbow

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

Sunflowers Eau de Toilette

Elizabeth Arden — Melon and peach sit at the centre of almost every report, lifted by bergamot and softened into a clean, sunlit floral.

Sweet Like Candy Eau de Parfum

Ariana Grande — Blackberry and bergamot first, marshmallow and cassis underneath: wearers reach for sour sweets that make the mouth water, jammy strawberry chews from a corner shop, cotton candy laid over soft white flowers.

The Ghost in the Shell Eau de Parfum

Etat Libre d'Orange — Soft as it is, some wearers find it long-lasting: yuzu and a milky skin accord that leaves synthetic, plastic or cool metallic impressions, resting on moss and amber woods..

Times Square Eau de Parfum

Masque Milano — Lipstick meets the street: glossy, waxy cosmetics and peachy osmanthus against hot rubber, asphalt and smoke.

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 Girl Eau de Toilette

Tommy Hilfiger — Bright citrus, astringent for the first minutes: mandarin, grapefruit and mint up front, a passing breath of rose, and hours later something like a freshly laundered jumper out of a cedar drawer.

Vanilla | 28 Eau de Parfum

KAYALI — Sweet vanilla and brown sugar after a jasmine opening, with patchouli and amber giving the drydown an earthier edge.

Very Good Girl Eau de Parfum

Carolina Herrera — Tart currant and lychee open it, and the rose that follows depends on who is wearing it: jammy on one skin, a soapy rose bomb on another, chalky as setting powder on a third, and to an owner who bought it on impulse, a far cheaper cousin of Delina.

Viva La Juicy Eau de Parfum

Juicy Couture — Wild berries and mandarin over honeysuckle and a caramel-vanilla base, the smell of a late-2000s shopping mall in a pink-bowed bottle: for one owner, a signature and the most complimented scent for over a decade.

White Diamonds

Elizabeth Taylor — A large, bright floral bouquet that grows softer and more powdery as it settles.

White Linen Eau de Parfum

Estée Lauder — Sheets drying in the sun, or a bar of good white soap: sparkling aldehydes on rose, lily of the valley and orris, drying to vetiver and moss.

White Musk Eau de Toilette

The Body Shop — Clean, soft musk with a powdery floral lift, comforting rather than loud: owners of thirty years call it uplifting and still collect compliments, and one layers it under everything else.

White Rice Eau de Parfum

d'Annam — A skin scent by design, and owners wear it that way: steamed, faintly nutty rice and green pandan that settle into orris, jasmine and clean white musk.

White Tea Eau de Toilette

Elizabeth Arden — If neutral had a scent, one wearer says, this would be it: creamy tea and a clean sea breeze settling into soft musk, as easy at the office as at bedtime.