What are the top three notes you gravitate toward in a fragrance?
Amber, tobacco, and patchouli!
— Christine
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Citrus, vanilla, jasmine (It’s difficult to pick just three!)
My favorite scents are fruity florals, so I love citrus, wild rose and tonka bean. It is difficult to pick just three!
Patchouli, lemon and lily of the valley (though not all together in one scent). I have to mention vetiver as well….
Amber, Violet, Iris
Vanilla, vanilla, vanilla 😅
Jocking aside, vanilla, pear, caramel
I said jasmine, jasmine and jasmine lol!
I’m not great at discerning most individual notes but definitely vanilla, and probably…amber and sandalwood? A lot easier to say which broad categories I enjoy!
Vanilla, strawberry and apple. Something fresh and light but also warm. But it can’t be cheap smelling, like candy or kids’ bath gel. It has to be a developed scent.
Must we pick only three?!! I love so many notes but they are pretty much all floral. I love vanilla, rose, and tobacco the most though.
Musk, vanilla, and cetalox.
Is jasmine, jasmine and jasmine an acceptable answer?? If not, jasmine, peony and sandalwood.
I love a narcotic jasmine based warm floral (Mugler’s Alien has been my favorite for years) year round but in spring/summer, I like softer cool or aquatic florals with peony, wisteria, lilac and/or of course, jasmine like, Dior Blooming Bouquet and Nest Wisteria Blue. I really dislike citrus, spicy, gourmand and overly sweet (vanilla) notes
For summer: Citrus, neroli, anything “beachy”.
For winter: Whatever is in my two favorites, Tom Ford Black Orchid and YSL Black Opium Nuit Blanche! (I seriously have NO idea whatsoever what their top notes are!)
From Sephora concerning TF Black Orchid
Key Notes: Black Orchid, Black Truffle, Patchouli
Fragrance Description: Black Orchid Eau De Parfum opens with aphrodisiacal black truffle and narcotic ylang ylang—touched with effervescent bergamot and bitter orange. Rum-soaked, sweet black plum surrounds the perfume‘s black orchid extract, while woody patchouli and creamy vanilla wrap the orchid in rich warmth
Jasmine, plumeria, tuberose
I’m not very good with notes when it comes to fragrances. I guess warm notes, almost like spices? So perhaps patchouli. I don’t love florals too much but I like fruity notes.
Gardenia, rose and lavender (in that order and not in the same product).
I like a variety of perfumes and their top notes change with each one, but bergamot, coriandar and clary sage feature in some of them.
I love bergamot and sage Genevieve! It’s a beautiful combo in a humidifier. 🙂
There is something about patchouli! My neighbor had a Bath & Body Works vanilla patchouli plug in home fragrance and I had to run and buy 2 the next day! I also love amber and some musk notes.
Citrus, white flowers and cedar! Tea and greenery is always welcome. Relaxing by Shiseido was my favorite for years. Even though it’s classified as a woody, green, aromatic scent, it lingered as a fresh and calming scent. I miss that fragrance!
Sandalwood, musk, and vanilla.
Rose, pepper, tonka bean.
Rose, jasmine, and neroli (which I wish lasted longer).
Incense, woody notes (including oud), patchouly.
Of the top of my head I would have said sandalwood, fig and coffee. I then looked up the notes of my favorite perfumes in Fragrantica, and it turns out the top 3 common nominators of my faves are: sandalwood, vanilla (which I didn’t expect as I do not like any obvious vanilla scent) and musk (another surprise, as I assosiate musk with scents that are too overpowering to my taste). Eye-opening exercise!
Vanilla, Sandalwood and maybe Jasmine. I like Mugler Alien and Cara described it as a “narcotic jasmine based warm floral” .
I have a very hard time deciding the different notes in a scent, something wrong with my sense of smell, perhaps, but I love the pure vanilla scent as well as pure sandalwood.
I also like quite spicy scents, like the originals YSL Opium.
I think I lean toward warm scents and I absolutely dislike anything citrus-y for myself.
Lighter Marine Accords, Lily, Ouds.
I think it’s much easier if I list the three that I DON’T gravitate toward 😉 Those would be lily of the valley, tuberose and vetiver. Aside from those, anything else goes.
Cardamom
Patchouli
Frankincense
Vanilla, marshmallows, amber!
White florals (usually jasmine), tea, and citrus. I do love cardamom as a note, but it’s usually paired with smokier/warmer things that decrease my enjoyment of it.