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Floral
A mixed-flower bouquet — the most familiar map of perfume, from garden rose to a whole florist stall.
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White floral
Tuberose, gardenia, orange blossom — night-blooming whites that can smell like skin, cream or a greenhouse after rain.
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Rose
Damask and centifolia, jam or stem — the flower that built Grasse, Bulgaria and a century of designer icons.
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Jasmine
Sambac or grandiflorum, cream or indole — the night flower that turns a floral into something animal and gold.
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Iris & powdery
Orris butter and violet-leaf dust — the most expensive quiet in perfume, lipstick, suede and cool powder.
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Fruity
Peach skin, berry juice, osmanthus jam — fruit as nectar, not candy, from niche orchards to designer top notes.
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Citrus
Bergamot, lemon, yuzu peel — the bright opening of cologne, IFRA-limited oils and a glass of cold sunshine.
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Aromatic
Lavender, rosemary, clary sage — herbs that built the fougère and still define a clean, Mediterranean spine.
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Aquatic
Calone, sea air, wet stone — the 1990s marine idea, still the fastest way to smell like air-conditioning and tide.
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Green
Galbanum, snapped stem, tomato leaf — the smell of a florist's knife and a garden before the flowers open.
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Tea
Green, smoked or osmanthus tea — an infusion accord that reads as quiet luxury, paper, steam and leaf.
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Woody
Cedar, iso-wood, dry timber — the architecture under most modern bottles, from designer woods to niche forests.
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Sandalwood
Creamy santal, milk and temple wood — Mysore memory, Australian farms and the softest lasting base in the atlas.
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Oud & incense
Agarwood smoke and resin — luxury, ritual and a supply chain that now has to answer for wild trees.
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Vetiver
Haitian root, smoke or grapefruit peel — the grass that smells like damp earth, pencil shavings and a clean shirt.
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Chypre
Bergamot, oakmoss, labdanum — the 1917 architecture IFRA rewrote, still the most mossy, bitter elegance in the wheel.
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Oriental amber
Amber, vanilla, balsam — the warm resinous night that designer and niche still treat as the definition of evening.
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Spicy
Pepper, clove, cinnamon bark — heat without a kitchen, from carnation spice to a winter afternoon on skin.
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Gourmand
Caramel, chocolate, praline — the 1990s edible turn that made dessert a legitimate perfume family.
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Vanilla
Bean, smoke or ice-cream vanillin — the note everyone thinks they know, until it turns woody, leathery or sacred.
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Tobacco & leather
Honeyed leaf and saddlery — the adult dry-down of clubs, car interiors and a jacket that has lived a life.
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Fougère
Lavender, coumarin, oakmoss — the 1882 fern that still is the skeleton of most men's designer bottles.
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Musk
Clean skin, laundry, animal whisper — from banned nitro musks to the white-musk cloud that made niche feel intimate.
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Aldehydic
Champagne fizz, soap and abstract petals — the 1921 sparkle that made a floral modern and still defines "perfume-y".
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