Best Perfume for Women 2026: 24 Picks by a Working Perfumer

By Kershen Teo, founder and natural perfumer of Prosody London — Updated October 2026.

The best perfume for women is the one built on a floral you actually love, so I’ve ranked these 24 by the ingredient at their heart rather than by sales figures, with a note on how each one is constructed.

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• Best rose: Frédéric Malle Portrait of a Lady, still the reference
• Best jasmine: Chanel No.5, the benchmark more than a century on
• Easiest everyday wear: Tom Ford Neroli Portofino, bright and forgiving from morning to evening
• Best modern bouquet: Parfums de Marly Delina or Chanel Coco Mademoiselle
• Something almost no one else wears: Prada Infusion d’Iris or Marc-Antoine Barrois Tilia

Below: all 24 designer and niche perfumes across seven floral families, October’s bestseller lists, three 2026 launches worth smelling, and the botanical perfumes I make in my own studio.

Jump to: Jasmine · Rose · Neroli · Mimosa · Linden · Floral bouquet · Iris · Most popular 2026

At a glance: the 24 best women’s perfumes 2026

Each family behaves differently on skin. Jasmine and orange blossom are rich and faintly animal; rose can read fresh or dark depending on what surrounds it; iris is cool and powdery; mimosa and linden are soft, honeyed and much less familiar. The table gives one designer pick per family, and the sections below explain how each perfume is built.

The best jasmine perfumes for women

Jasmine absolute is one of the most complex materials a perfumer works with. Benzyl acetate, its main constituent, gives the fruity sweetness; cis-jasmone and methyl jasmonate add a green, tea-like tension; and a trace of indole gives the warm, faintly animal depth that makes jasmine smell alive. Grandiflorum, the classic Grasse species, is the fruitier of the two main types; sambac is greener and more tea-like. The four perfumes below use jasmine in very different ways. For how a natural perfumer handles it, see what makes a good natural jasmine perfume.

Chanel No.5 — the iconic aldehydic jasmine

Ernest Beaux built No.5 in 1921 on Grasse jasmine and May rose, lifted by an overdose of aliphatic aldehydes: the soapy, sparkling top that made it smell abstract rather than like any one flower. The aldehydes push the jasmine upwards and the warm base of sandalwood and vanilla pulls it back to skin. More than a century on, it is still the clearest lesson in using a flower for structure rather than realism.

Le Labo Jasmin 17 — the modern jasmine soliflore

Le Labo names each perfume after its main material and the number of ingredients in the formula, so Jasmin 17 is jasmine in seventeen parts. A soliflore, one flower with everything else there to support it: intense, slightly indolic, and with very little to distract from the jasmine.

YSL Black Opium — jasmine in a supporting role

Black Opium is a coffee-and-vanilla gourmand, so jasmine is not the first thing you notice. The jasmine stops the sweetness from turning purely edible: the white-flower heart brightens the coffee and gives the composition lift. Of the four, it shows jasmine in a supporting role.

Tom Ford Jasmin Rouge — jasmine with a spicy edge

Tom Ford takes jasmine somewhere darker: a dry, peppery spice in the opening gives way to the jasmine heart, and a warm amber base keeps it in evening territory. Less abstract than No.5, and the one to try if you usually find jasmine too sweet.

The best rose perfumes for women

Rose is the most versatile floral in perfumery. Depending on the material and what surrounds it, it can smell of lemon, honey, tea, raspberry, clove or wine. Rose otto, steam-distilled mainly from Rosa damascena in Bulgaria and Turkey, is bright and slightly green; rose absolute, solvent-extracted from damask or centifolia roses, is deeper and more honeyed. Each perfume below picks a few of those facets and turns them up.

Frédéric Malle Portrait of a Lady — the modern rose benchmark

Dominique Ropion built Portrait of a Lady in 2010 around a large dose of Turkish rose set against patchouli and incense, which moves the rose out of the garden and into darker, resinous territory. Blackcurrant bud gives the opening a green, slightly catty sharpness. If you want to know how far a rose can be pushed in a modern composition, start here.

Diptyque Eau Rose — the fresh, transparent rose

Rose handled with restraint and transparency — a light, fresh interpretation that captures the green, slightly watery quality of a rose stem rather than the heavy sweetness of the absolute. For women who find traditional rose fragrances too rich or too old-fashioned, Eau Rose is the modern entry point.

Maison Francis Kurkdjian À La Rose — rose in its purest form

Francis Kurkdjian pairs centifolia and damask roses with very little else, so À La Rose smells closer to a freshly cut flower than to a rose perfume: transparent rather than rich, and a good choice if Portrait of a Lady feels too heavy.

Parfums de Marly Delina — the contemporary fruity rose

A contemporary rose that sits between fresh and rich. Rhubarb and litchi in the top give it a fruity tartness that stops it reading as old-fashioned, the problem every modern rose has to solve, and the vetiver and cashmeran base gives it more depth than the pink bottle suggests. It moves easily from day to evening.

The best neroli and orange blossom perfumes for women

Neroli and orange blossom come from the same flower — the blossom of the bitter orange tree — but they are different materials. Neroli is steam-distilled, giving it a bright, slightly metallic, almost citrus quality. Orange blossom absolute is solvent-extracted, producing something warmer, richer, and more indolic. The finest fragrances in this family understand the difference and use each material deliberately.

Because both come from a citrus tree, this is the family that sits closest to citrus: lighter than rose, less heady than jasmine, and comfortable in heat.

Tom Ford Neroli Portofino — luxury neroli

Tom Ford’s take on the classic eau de cologne: bergamot, lemon and mandarin over neroli, settling on a soft amber base. It smells of an expensive holiday rather than of a flower, and it is the most forgiving perfume on this list for everyday wear. Like most cologne structures, it is brightest at the start and fades sooner than the ambers and resins elsewhere in this guide.

Serge Lutens Fleurs d’Oranger — orange blossom at full intensity

Serge Lutens lets orange blossom absolute show its indolic, almost narcotic side instead of taming it. The result is polarising by design. Choose it if you want orange blossom as a statement; many people will find it too full for every day.

Hermès Un Jardin sur le Nil — neroli through restraint

Jean-Claude Ellena builds a green mango and lotus accord over a light musk, and uses neroli for transparency rather than as the main note. There is very little in it, and that is the appeal: it is the most restrained perfume in this section.

The best mimosa perfumes for women

Mimosa absolute comes from Acacia dealbata, the silver wattle that flowers in late winter across the Tanneron hills near Grasse. It smells powdery and honeyed, with a green, faintly almond edge, and it is quiet: mimosa softens a composition rather than leading it.

Because it sits between floral, powdery and sweet, mimosa is easily buried under louder notes. The perfumes that work give it room.

Chloé Atelier des Fleurs Herba Mimosa — the naturalistic mimosa

Chloé’s Atelier des Fleurs line builds each perfume around one botanical material. Herba Mimosa is luminous, powdery and slightly woody, inspired by the mimosa hills above Grasse, and light enough to wear without thinking about it. Of the three, it is the easiest place to start.

Perris Monte Carlo Mimosa Tanneron — the sun-drenched Mediterranean mimosa

Named after the Tanneron massif where mimosa is grown, Perris Monte Carlo’s version is bright, honeyed and a little wild, with hawthorn and rose giving it a garden-like edge. Of the three, this is closest to the smell of the flowering tree.

Frédéric Malle Carnal Flower — the tuberose for mimosa lovers

Carnal Flower is a tuberose perfume, included because its melon and coconut opening shares mimosa’s soft, tropical powderiness, and people who like one often like the other. Dominique Ropion uses a large dose of tuberose absolute and keeps it from turning heavy with fresh, green and eucalyptus notes. As a natural perfumer I study it knowing I could not build the same structure from botanical materials alone.

The best linden blossom perfumes for women

Linden, or lime blossom, comes from the Tilia tree. It smells of honey, green tea and fresh hay, with a soft sweetness that is much less heady than jasmine or tuberose. Lime trees make it a familiar smell on British streets in early summer, and an unusual one in perfume.

Linden blossom absolute exists but is made in small quantities, so most linden perfumes rely on accords built around a little of the natural material, or none of it. That scarcity is one reason so few houses make linden the main note.

If you like neroli in summer, linden is the natural next step: just as fresh, but softer and sweeter.

Marc-Antoine Barrois Tilia — the professionals’ linden

Marc-Antoine Barrois pairs linden blossom with sambac jasmine and heliotrope over an ambroxan base. The effect is fizzy, sunny and honeyed, and the ambroxan gives a warm, skin-close finish. Of the two linden picks, this is the one to smell first.

Penhaligon’s Highgrove Bouquet — the English linden floral

Penhaligon’s made Highgrove Bouquet with the King’s Foundation, inspired by the gardens at Highgrove. Linden blossom sits with mimosa and tuberose in a powdery, honeyed floral that is quiet, considered and very English. A good choice if you prefer understatement.

The best floral bouquet perfumes for women

The floral bouquet is the largest and most familiar category in women’s perfumery — and the most variable in quality. At its best, a floral bouquet achieves something a single-ingredient fragrance cannot: the sense of walking through a garden in full bloom, where rose, jasmine, lily, and peony exist simultaneously rather than in sequence. At its worst, it becomes indistinguishable from fabric softener.

The difference is balance. In a good bouquet you can still pick out the rose or the jasmine, while the whole reads as a single flower that does not exist in nature. The six below range from dense and sweet to almost transparent.

Chanel Coco Mademoiselle — the modern floral-oriental

Jacques Polge’s Coco Mademoiselle (2001) took the warmth of the older Chanel ambers and made it brighter and younger, with orange and rose over patchouli. The patchouli gives depth without smelling earthy, which is why it has staying power without feeling heavy.

YSL Libre Intense — lavender meets orange blossom

YSL Libre Intense sets lavender against orange blossom, which is not an obvious pairing: lavender usually reads as masculine, orange blossom as heady and feminine. It works because the lavender is kept in check and the orange blossom is warm rather than sharp, over a vanilla-amber base that gives it staying power.

Burberry Goddess — the soft vanillic floral

Burberry Goddess is built on lavender and vanilla, and nothing in it is sharp. Burberry designed it for broad appeal and gets there without smelling generic; the vanilla stays rich without turning cloying. The easiest perfume in this group to wear.

Byredo La Tulipe — the transparent modern bouquet

Byredo’s La Tulipe is a transparent bouquet: cyclamen, rhubarb, freesia and vetiver make a tulip accord that is airy and slightly green. Smell it next to Flowerbomb or La Vie Est Belle to understand how differently a floral can be built.

Viktor & Rolf Flowerbomb — maximum floral impact

Jasmine, freesia and orchid over patchouli and vanilla, and the name is accurate. Flowerbomb is built for maximum projection and staying power and delivers both. It shows what modern synthetic materials can do for a floral’s volume and longevity, which no all-natural perfume sets out to match.

Lancôme La Vie Est Belle — the iris-led crowd-pleaser

Lancôme pairs iris pallida with orange blossom and jasmine over a spun-sugar praline and vanilla base. The sweetness is what people recognise; the iris is what stops it being only sweet, adding a powdery, slightly cool edge. Lancôme does not publish how much natural orris the formula contains.

The best iris perfumes for women

Iris is perfumery’s great misdirection: the flower has almost no scent, so the material does not come from it. Perfumers use orris, the rhizome of Iris pallida or Iris germanica, which is dried and stored for about three years while the irones, the molecules that give orris its smell, develop. That wait, and the tiny yield, make orris butter one of the most expensive raw materials in perfumery. It smells cool, powdery and faintly carrot-like, with a texture often compared to suede.

Prada Infusion d’Iris — iris as pure architecture

Prada Infusion d’Iris (Daniela Andrier, 2007) sets orris against frankincense, benzoin and cedar in a composition so restrained it is close to minimalist. The powdery orris stands almost on its own: cool rather than warm, more contemplative than romantic. For a first lesson in what orris smells like, this is the perfume to try.

Chanel No.19 Poudré — iris in a green composition

Chanel No.19 Poudré, Jacques Polge’s 2011 reinterpretation of the 1970 No.19, folds iris into green galbanum, jasmine, white musk and tonka bean, so the powdery heart arrives through a green sharpness. The more complex of the two, it is rooted in the green chypre tradition rather than Prada’s near-soliflore approach.

Between them they show the range: Infusion d’Iris for cool restraint, No.19 Poudré for iris as one voice in a greener, fuller composition. For a newer, musk-led iris, see Hermès Musc Pallida in the 2026 launches below.

How I ranked these 24

How it develops on skin. Top notes are loudest in the first few minutes, but the heart and base, which take over within the hour, are what you actually wear. A pick has to hold together through all three stages, not only make a strong first impression.

Balance. Nothing should stand out by accident: no sharp edge in the top, no base that swamps the flower, no gap between stages. Balance is where a perfumer’s training shows most and is noticed least.

A clear idea. Each perfume here does one thing well, whether that is a realistic rose, an abstract jasmine or an orange blossom pushed to its limit. Sales were not a criterion; the bestsellers have their own section below.

Character that lasts. Scent and memory are closely linked, and the perfumes people stay loyal to are the ones that still feel right on the fifteenth wear, not only the first.

Ingredients. A perfume’s quality depends on its composition, safety assessment and suitability for the wearer, not on whether its ingredients are natural or synthetic. Prosody London chooses botanical materials for their character and as a formulation philosophy, and natural extracts contain fragrance allergens too. For more on how fragrance ingredients are assessed, see our guide to endocrine disruptors in perfume.

Which floral family suits you?

If you are not sure where to start, choose by what you want the perfume to do.

If you want something bright and easy to wear, start with Neroli & Orange Blossom. It is the most forgiving of the seven: fresh without being sharp, warm without being heavy, and right for a morning meeting or a summer evening. Tom Ford Neroli Portofino is the mainstream reference.

If you want depth, go to Jasmine. It rewards patience: the best jasmine perfumes unfold over hours rather than announcing themselves. Chanel No.5 is the historical benchmark.

If you want romance without nostalgia, Rose is the widest-ranging family here, able to read fresh, dark, fruity or resinous depending on how it is built. Frédéric Malle’s Portrait of a Lady shows how far it can go.

If you want something few people around you are wearing, try Iris or Linden Blossom. Iris is cool, powdery and cerebral; linden is honeyed and quietly sweet. Neither is a household name the way rose or jasmine is, which is the appeal. Among my own perfumes, Lissom Linden is the linden option; I do not make an iris perfume.

If you want softness with some originality, Mimosa is the least known family in this guide: powdery, honeyed and slightly almond-like. Chloé Herba Mimosa is the easiest start; Carnal Flower is the tuberose for mimosa lovers.

A final note on combining families: the most interesting fragrances on this list rarely sit in just one category. Rose Rondeaux is floral-oriental. Neroli Nuance is fresh-floral with a labdanum base that pulls it toward something warmer. Knowing which two families you’re drawn to, rather than picking just one, is usually the faster route to a genuine signature scent.

The most popular women’s perfumes in 2026

On October 2026’s bestseller lists, the most popular women’s perfumes are Lancôme La Vie Est Belle, YSL Libre, Chanel No.5 and Chanel Chance Eau Splendide on the high street, and Amouage Guidance, Parfums de Marly Valaya and Delina in niche perfumery. Tendance Parfums’ October 2026 women’s bestsellers, from a French retailer, are led by Chance Eau Splendide and Clarins Eau Dynamisante, with La Vie Est Belle third, Libre sixth, No.5 seventh and Prada Paradoxe fourteenth. In niche, the Scento Fragrance Index of European decant orders from October 2025 to September 2026 puts Amouage Guidance first, with Valaya, Initio Musk Therapy, Delina and Frédéric Malle Portrait of a Lady all in the top seven.

Popularity tells you what other people are buying, not what will suit you. The table sets out what ten of the best-known bestsellers are built on, using the notes each house publishes.

What’s actually in a popular perfume?

Most of the bestsellers above rely heavily on aroma-chemicals. That isn’t a criticism: materials like Serenolide, cashmeran and ethyl maltol are exactly what give modern bestsellers their cleanliness, sweetness and reach. But it does mean the name on the bottle tells you very little about what is on your skin. The botanical fragrances explore related scent families with plant materials alone — ambrette seed for musk, rose for rose, mimosa absolute for powder.

Love rose? See my full guide to the best rose perfume for women, with ten roses compared by a perfumer.

New for 2026: three launches worth smelling

The 24 picks above are the established references. These are the 2026 launches I’d seek out on a counter: one for each of the rose, jasmine and iris families.

Frédéric Malle Contre-Jour — rose seen against the light

Annick Ménardo, in her first perfume for the house, builds Contre-Jour around immortelle, the Mediterranean everlasting flower, with rose and narcissus in the heart over sandalwood. Immortelle’s honeyed, hay-like warmth rarely takes centre stage, and here it turns the rose golden rather than romantic. It suits someone who already owns a classic rose and wants to hear the note differently.

Narciso Rodriguez Pure Musc Blanc For Her — the clean white floral

Sonia Constant opens this eau de parfum intense with jasmine, bergamot and aldehydes, then moves into white flowers and Narciso Rodriguez’s signature musk, settling on vanilla, cedar and amber. It is the easiest of the three to wear: soft, clean and office-friendly, with a jasmine that is bright and polished rather than heady.

Hermès Musc Pallida Eau de Parfum — iris and musk, now as an eau de parfum

Christine Nagel’s Musc Pallida existed first as a Hermessence essence and a body cream; this year it arrives as an eau de parfum. Aldehydes, Iris pallida and soft musk, nothing more: powdery, intimate and close to the skin, the kind of scent people notice only when they lean in. Few iris perfumes are this restrained.

What’s shaping women’s perfume in 2026

Skin scents. Several of this year’s launches, Musc Pallida and Pure Musc Blanc among them, sit close to the skin instead of filling a room. After two decades of high-projection perfumes built on powerful synthetic musks and woody ambers, the move is towards scents noticed only by people nearby. Carissis and Lissom Linden belong here; in Carissis, ambrette seed gives a soft, musk-like warmth from a plant source.

Florals with depth. The sheer, linear florals of the 2010s are giving way to florals with a base worth waiting for: resin, balsam or wood under the flower. Rose Rondeaux, Jacinth Jonquil and Moiré Mimosa are built this way, with labdanum, styrax or ambrette seed beneath the flowers.

Perfume concentrations and how to test

The names on perfume bottles describe how much perfume oil is dissolved in alcohol. There is no legal standard, so houses use them differently; the ranges below are typical.

The four concentrations

Parfum (also called extrait de parfum) — the highest concentration, typically 20–40% aromatic compounds in alcohol. Most expensive per millilitre, most intimate in projection.

Eau de parfum (EDP): 10–20% aromatic compounds. The most common concentration for women’s perfume today.

Eau de toilette (EDT): 5–10% aromatic compounds. Lighter, and usually less expensive.

Cologne (eau de cologne) — 2–5% aromatic compounds. Historically a specific style of light citrus fragrance from Cologne, Germany, now used loosely for lighter concentrations. Not a gender designation — cologne simply means a lower concentration of aromatic compounds in a higher proportion of alcohol and water.

Concentration and longevity

Concentration changes how strongly a perfume projects, but it does not settle how long it lasts. A parfum smells stronger than the EDT of the same perfume without necessarily lasting longer. Longevity depends mostly on the base: resins, balsams, woods and musks evaporate slowly and hold the lighter notes on skin, so an EDT with a strong base can outlast a parfum built mainly from citrus and light florals.

How to test perfume properly

Most perfume is tested badly — on paper strips, in shops full of competing scents, for thirty seconds before a decision is made. This is how you end up with fragrances that disappoint on the third wear.

Test on skin, not paper. A paper strip tells you what a fragrance smells like in isolation at the moment of application. Your skin tells you how it will actually perform — how it evolves, how it interacts with your chemistry, how long it lasts. These are entirely different things. The paper version and the skin version of the same fragrance can smell nothing alike after twenty minutes.

One fragrance at a time. Testing three fragrances simultaneously means you’re smelling a blend of all three plus your own skin chemistry. Apply one, wait, evaluate. If you want to compare, test a second fragrance the following day on the same pulse point at the same time. Olfactory fatigue is real — after two or three fragrances your nose stops distinguishing accurately.

Wait for the dry-down. The top notes you smell in the first five minutes are only the start: citrus, aldehydes and light florals evaporate quickly, and the heart and base usually emerge thirty minutes to an hour after application. A perfume that is still interesting at the one-hour mark deserves serious consideration.

Apply to pulse points on moisturised skin. Wrists, inner elbows, throat: warm skin helps a perfume develop. Moisturised skin tends to hold fragrance longer than dry skin, so an unscented lotion first gives a fairer reading of longevity.

Judge it at the end of the day. The perfumes that still feel right in the evening, present on skin and not just where you sprayed them, are the ones worth buying.

Our Build Your Own 6 x 2ml Discovery Set is designed for exactly this kind of considered testing across multiple days and occasions — the only reliable way to know whether a natural perfume is truly yours.

A perfumer’s note on synthetic ingredients

Almost every perfume above uses synthetic aroma molecules, some far more than others. That is not a criticism; it is worth understanding.

Modern synthetic perfumery makes possible things that botanical ingredients cannot achieve — the crystalline transparency of certain aldehydics, the enormous projection of synthetic musks, the batch-to-batch consistency that mass-market fragrance depends on. These are genuine technical achievements.

My own perfumes take the other route, composed only from plant-derived materials. That is a creative choice rather than a safety one: botanical extracts contain fragrance allergens too, and they bring their own limits, such as softer projection.

If you’d like to try natural perfume — Prosody London

These are composed in London from 100% plant-derived aromatic ingredients in organic grain alcohol: essential oils, absolutes, CO2 extracts, resins and tinctures, plus accords (marked ° on each product page) built from natural isolates. There are no synthetic aroma chemicals. All are vegan, never tested on animals, and formulated to comply with applicable IFRA Standards.

Try before you commit — our Build Your Own 6 x 2ml Discovery Set lets you choose any six from the collection.

Jacinth Jonquil — a green spring floral

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Key notes: Hyacinth and jonquil accords°, jasmine sambac, ylang ylang, rose, styrax, vanilla

Jacinth Jonquil is a green floral. Hyacinth and jonquil accords give it a sappy, cut-stem opening; jasmine sambac, jasmine grandiflorum CO2 and ylang ylang fill out the heart, and styrax, patchouli and vanilla keep it warm once the green fades.

CaFleureBon’s Lauryn Beer described its daffodil note as “the most life-like daffodil note I’ve encountered in perfumery”, adding that it was “like wearing the most gorgeous May day on your wrist, even in November.”

Idyllic, fresh, and intensely lively — one of the most joyful fragrances I’ve made.

Who it’s for: Daytime wear year-round, women who love fresh, uplifting florals with genuine depth.

How it wears: a full day’s wear, settling into a soft labdanum warmth by evening.

Rose Rondeaux — for the timeless romantic

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Key notes: Top: pink pepper, berry and rum accords°, black pepper · Heart: bergamot, rose, geranium · Base: labdanum, patchouli, sandalwood, vanilla, raspberry accord°

Rose Rondeaux is my modern rose: rooted in the great tradition of rose perfumery, but fruitier and darker than a classic rose soliflore.

Pink pepper and a juicy berry accord open it. The rose arrives with geranium and bergamot, and a raspberry accord in the base carries the fruit into the dry-down. Labdanum and patchouli give it warmth, and sandalwood holds it on skin. In ambition it has more in common with Portrait of a Lady than with a simple rose soliflore.

Perfume critic Luca Turin — reviewing Lancôme’s own twelve-fragrance Absolue rose collection — concluded that even its most successful entry was “reminiscent of Prosody’s superb Rose Rondeaux, but less fervent.”

Who it’s for: Special occasions and evenings, women who appreciate the rose tradition done with genuine skill.

How it wears: long-wearing; the rose holds well into the evening on its labdanum and sandalwood base.

For the full assessment of Rose Rondeaux against Portrait of a Lady, Aesop Rozu and Byredo Young Rose, read our complete guide to the best rose perfume.

Neroli Nuance — for effortless everyday radiance

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Key notes: Neroli, blood orange, green mandarin, orange blossom absolute, jasmine sambac CO2, labdanum, oakmoss

Neroli Nuance pairs neroli, blood orange and green mandarin with orange blossom absolute and jasmine sambac, so it reads as citrus first and white flower second.

The base makes it more than a fresh citrus: labdanum, a resin from the Mediterranean cistus shrub, with Peru balsam and benzoin, gives warm amber depth and holds the brighter notes on skin, while oakmoss adds a cool, slightly bitter grounding. Contains oakmoss.

Writing in the Daily Mail, beauty journalist Jo Fairley described Neroli Nuance as taking “white floral notes of orange blossom… creating a super-elegant, summery blend that incorporates other floral and woody notes.”

Who it’s for: Daily wear, warmer months, women who want a fragrance that is radiant without being demanding.

How it wears: a full day’s wear, the brightness softening into oakmoss and labdanum.

Lissom Linden — for the quietly memorable

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Key notes: Linden blossom, rose, jasmine tea CO2, helichrysum, chamomile, frankincense, ambrette seed

Lissom Linden is my linden tree in full flower: honeyed, green and slightly hay-like, with jasmine tea CO2 and helichrysum in the opening.

Rose and chamomile soften the heart. In the base, frankincense adds a dry, incense-like note, and ambrette seed and Atlas cedar keep it close to the skin rather than projecting.

Who it’s for: Women who want a signature scent that is soft and hard to place.

How it wears: a full day’s wear, staying close to the skin as it settles into frankincense and wood.

Moiré Mimosa — for the unexpected statement

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Key notes: Top: aniseed, mimosa absolute, melon accord°, coconut, lime, eucalyptus · Heart: neroli, tuberose accord° · Base: ambrette seed, vanilla

Mimosa absolute, from Acacia dealbata, gives Moiré Mimosa its powdery, honey-like, faintly almond character. Aniseed, lime and a melon-and-coconut accord make the opening light and slightly tropical; a tuberose accord and neroli round out the heart, and ambrette seed and vanilla leave a soft, warm finish.

Who it’s for: Women who want a fragrance that is airy and uplifting without being ordinary.

How it wears: comfortable day wear; the lightest of the six, so reapply for the evening.

Bebop Allure — apple, rose and celery seed

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Key notes: Top: celery seed, green apple accord°, lime · Heart: rose, neroli · Base: ambrette seed, vanilla, myrrh, vetiver

Bebop Allure opens with a crisp green apple accord and lime, cut with the savoury green edge of celery seed, an unusual material in perfume. Bulgarian rose and Valencia neroli form the heart; myrrh, vetiver and ambrette seed give the base an earthy, softly woody depth.

Who it’s for: Women who want energy and modernity with elegance underneath.

How it wears: long-wearing; myrrh and vetiver carry it well into the evening.

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