Spring fragrances
Fragrances wearers report reaching for most often in spring, counted from published wearer votes.
These are counted from wearer votes at the venues each fragrance cites, not a recommendation from Scentorian. The first group is fragrances whose votes concentrate on spring. The second is fragrances worn right through the year, spring among them, whose votes never settled on one season. Weather, skin and how much you apply all change what a fragrance does.
Most often worn in spring — 1–60 of 66
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..
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..
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..
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.
Anaïs Anaïs L'Original Eau de Toilette
Cacharel — Green, powdery flowers with a clean-soap edge, familiar and easy to wear every day for the owners who keep coming back to it.
Aventus
Creed — It starts as pineapple, apple, bergamot and blackcurrant and turns smoky and mossy as birch, patchouli and musk come through, a clean, fresh thread running from start to finish.
Be Delicious Eau de Parfum
DKNY — Crisp green apple and cucumber with grapefruit, then clean magnolia and muguet, drying to a powdery finish of pale woods, amber and musk.
Calyx Eau de Parfum
Clinique — Tart grapefruit and guava, then clean rose and neroli; in wearers' telling, green leaves and oakmoss leave the finish damp and leafy..
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..
Chrome Eau de Toilette
Azzaro — Bright citrus, cool metal and mineral water, then clean musk and a dry tea-and-wood character that some wearers compare to freshly washed linen..
CK One Eau de Toilette
Calvin Klein — Clean in the literal sense: wearers describe citrus and green tea over a soapy musk, the scent of having just showered.
Classic Warm Cotton
CLEAN Beauty Collective — Freshly dried laundry, as reviewers keep putting it, built from bright lemon, cotton and a marine note on warm musk.
Club de Nuit Intense Man Eau de Toilette
Armaf — A sharp lemon opening gives way to blackcurrant and pineapple on smoky birch, and the drydown turns sweeter.
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..
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.
Copper Eau de Parfum
Comme des Garçons — Built on a contradiction, and wearers feel both halves: a sharp green, peppery opening that several compare to a handful of coins, then a soft settle into vanilla and myrrh.
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..
Déclaration Eau de Toilette
Cartier — Cumin gives it a warm edge that divides people, sensual skin to some and stale clothing to others; around it, as wearers tell it, sit cool green cardamom and bone-dry bitter orange on cedar.
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.
Donna Born in Roma Eau de Parfum
Valentino — Strong and long-wearing, by most reviewers' account, this is jasmine sambac laid on warm cashmeran and vanilla..
En Passant
Editions de Parfums Frédéric Malle — Wet lilac and cucumber with a warm, dough-like accent.
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.
Ganymede Eau de Parfum
Marc-Antoine Barrois — The whole appeal for some and a dentist's surgery for others, its cool, clinical character comes from mandarin, then something metallic, mineral and paper-like, above soft leather and immortelle.
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.
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.
Infusion d'Iris Eau de Parfum
Prada — Cool, clean iris, closer to good soap and powdered skin than to lipstick or cut flowers.
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..
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.
L'Eau d'Issey Eau de Toilette
Issey Miyake Parfums — Cool lotus and white lilies with a faint metallic edge, pale woods and soft musk.
L'Eau Papier Eau de Toilette
Diptyque — Starchy rice with a toasted, nutty edge, powdery mimosa and pale dry woods.
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..
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.
Mûre et Musc Eau de Toilette
L'Artisan Parfumeur — Picked off the bush, leaf and thorn included, the blackberry sits on a clean white musk, though for some the fruit barely shows and it wears as fresh laundry.
Night Flyer Parfum
Olympic Orchids — Damp earth, mineral air and resins, with ripe figs, banana and other tropical fruit.
Not a Perfume Eau de Parfum
Juliette Has a Gun — A single molecule, and it behaves like one: clean, faintly woody, musky skin that some wear straight out of the shower and others layer under everything.
Papyrus Moléculaire Eau de Parfum
Maison Crivelli — Paper more than wood: wearers describe starchy, sun-bleached reeds, pencil shavings and clean skin, with a curl of cigarillo and a milky softness underneath.
Philosykos Eau de Parfum
Diptyque — Green fig leaf, bark and dry woods, with pepper for an edge, as reviewers describe it.
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.
Poets of Berlin Eau de Parfum
Vilhelm Parfumerie — Blueberry muffin, wearers often say: tart blueberry and lemon on sweet vanilla, with orris and vetiver drying the finish, and it often wears closer after the opening..
Rabbit Extrait de Parfum
Zoologist — Carrot cake for some, a hutch full of hay for others.
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..
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..
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 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..
Terre d'Hermès Eau de Toilette
Hermès — Dry grapefruit, cedar and a flinty, mineral edge that wearers keep comparing to wet stone.
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..
Thunderstorm Cologne Spray
Demeter Fragrance Library — Demeter describes earth and plant oils in humid air around a summer thunderstorm.
Times Square Eau de Parfum
Masque Milano — Lipstick meets the street: glossy, waxy cosmetics and peachy osmanthus against hot rubber, asphalt and smoke.
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.
Un Jardin sur le Nil Eau de Toilette
Hermès — Tart green mango and wet lotus, with a bitter, almost vegetable greenery that owners liken to tomato leaf and fresh-cut stems.
Vacation Eau de Toilette
Vacation — It smells like sunscreen, and that is the point: coconut, banana and a squeeze of pineapple over chlorinated water and warm vinyl.
Most often worn in spring — 61–66 of 66
Vanille Banane Eau de Toilette
Comptoir Sud Pacifique — Banana, green leaf and a splash of rum, then soft vanilla.
Virgin Island Water Eau de Parfum
Creed — Sharp lime and bergamot, then creamy coconut and white flowers; as the citrus fades, soft tonka and musk remain, usually close to the skin by wearers' accounts..
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.
Womanity Eau de Parfum
Mugler — Sweet and salty at once is the whole design, and wearers say it lands: green fig and fig leaf over a skin-warm saltiness that reads as sea air rather than seafood.
You Eau de Parfum
Glossier — Pink pepper, powdery iris and a warm, faintly sweet musk that reads like skin.
You or Someone Like You Eau de Parfum
Etat Libre d'Orange — Spearmint and crushed leaves arrive first, with enough cold bite that owners reach for mojitos and iced tea to describe it.
Worn across the year, spring included — 23 fragrances
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.
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.
Cloud Eau de Parfum
Ariana Grande — Lavender first, then sweet praline, coconut and musk.
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..
Dune
Dior — Dry mineral air, sea breeze and a faint hay-like sweetness, likened by reviewers to pebbles, driftwood and dust.
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..
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.
Fat Electrician Eau de Parfum
Etat Libre d'Orange — A vetiver gone soft in the middle: wearers get smoky roots and cedar over chestnut cream, marron glacé and a dusting of vanilla, comfortable rather than austere.
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..
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.
Lampblack Eau de Parfum
FZOTIC — Bitter grapefruit and orange against black pepper and an inky nagarmotha accord.
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..
Lust Perfume
Lush — Jasmine the way the flower really smells, which is the whole argument about it.
Molecule 01 Eau de Toilette
Escentric Molecules — Dry cedar, pencil shavings and a soft, warm skin scent.
Odeur 71 Eau de Toilette
Comme des Garçons — Hot metal, toner, dust, ink and pencil shavings, with a raw green edge.
Passage d'Enfer
L'Artisan Parfumeur — Cool incense and white lily with an impression of stone.
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..
Santal 33 Eau de Parfum
Le Labo — To the people who wear it, this is smoky sandalwood and cedar, spiced with cardamom and softened by something creamy, violet and iris.
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.
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..
Selperniku Eau de Parfum
January Scent Project — A gourmand that is not a dessert: salted butter, apricot and milk, lifted by green cypress.