Summer fragrances

Fragrances wearers report reaching for most often in summer, 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 summer. The second is fragrances worn right through the year, summer 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 summer — 46 fragrances

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.

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.

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.

En Passant

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

Fig-Tea Eau de Toilette

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

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

Replica From the Garden Eau de Toilette

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

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..

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..

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.

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.

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..

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.

Summer fragrances

Most often worn in summer — 46 fragrances

Worn across the year, summer included — 23 fragrances