Do you have a signature scent?
If I did, it’d probably be Tom Ford Oud Wood, but I definitely don’t wear any scent consistently enough for anyone to actually associate it with me.
— Christine
Explore Temptalia
We're here to help you make better beauty purchases that you'll enjoy and love! We recommend signing up to take advantage of personalized features like tracking products you own, viewing dupes that you already have, and more!
Here are some useful resources for you:
Compare Any Two
Curious how two shades compare to each other? Type in the shades below to get instant side-by-side swatches!
24 Comments
Comments that do not adhere to our comment policy may be removed. Discussion and debate are highly encouraged but we expect community members to participate respectfully. Please keep discussion on-topic, and if you have general feedback, a product review request, an off-topic question, or need technical support, please contact us!
Please help us streamline the comments' section and be more efficient: double-check the post above for more basic information like pricing, availability, and so on to make sure your question wasn't answered already. Comments alerting us to typos or small errors in the post are appreciated (!) but will typically be removed after errors are fixed (unless a response is needed).
We appreciate enthusiasm for new releases but ask readers to please hold questions regarding if/when a review will be posted as we can't commit to or guarantee product reviews. We don't want to set expectations and then disappoint readers as even products that are swatched don't always end up being reviewed due to time constraints and changes in priorities! Thank you for understanding!
Comments on this post are closed.
We try to approve comments within 24 hours (and reply to them within 72 hours) but can sometimes get behind and appreciate your patience! 🙂 If you have general feedback, product review requests, off-topic questions, or need technical support, please contact us directly. Thank you for your patience!
Burberry Classic eau de parfum since the past 20-25 years. I love the combination of peach and vanilla grounded by a woodsy note. It has gotten compliments from strangers.
That’s one of my fave perfumes ever!
I’ve been auditioning scents lately! I’ve found that department store perfumes are often too much for me (migraines 😣) so I started trying more natural/niche/indie scents and have found them to be less overwhelming.
Loving Solstice Scents’ Pharaoh at the moment – Egyptian musk, honey, and frankincense. A great everyday skin scent.
Pharaoh sound great! I love Frankincense and honey in perfumes.
I’ve always wanted to have a signature scent, but just like I am with makeup, food, music, hobbies, etc., I change my mind all the time and go through phases. The only scent I’ve ever run out of and bought again was Guerlain Aqua Allegoria Mandarine Basilic, which is still a favorite. Lately, I’m back in love with Nirvana Black. So those are my two signature scents at this very specific point in time. Who knows what I’ll be wearing next week!
Well, after the CK One phase, i.e. I used to bathe in the stuff as a teenager!, I would say as an adult Viktor&Rolf Flowerbomb is the one I’m most loyal to.
There are other scents that I’ve bought over the years and which I like to “revisit” like Tommy Girl (it’s sickly sweet, very overpowering and I can’t believe I still love it!), Ralph by R. Lauren, Halloween by J. del Pozo and I Love Moschino. I’ll typically buy the tiny bottle for these, every now and then, because I still love them but I feel like they don’t “define me” anymore if you know what I mean? I just associate them with very significant events in my life and they literally take me back in time w/ a whiff.
LOL ck one was also my signature scent in the 90s/early 00s! For special occasions I sometimes wore an Avon one that smelled like rain and ferns, but 99% of the time for about 8 years it was ck one, I think I went through a dozen bottles!
When young, L’Air du Temps. Now, totally variable, but in general categories. Aquatics, big chypres, and men’s, along the lines of Terre d’Hermes. Like Natalie, I have to be careful, so like Regime des Fleurs and Matriarch, many BPAL.
I love way too many different perfumes to have a signature scent, but the ones I’ve been wearing the most lately are Miss Dior Blooming Bouquet and Burberry Classic.
Not exactly? But I do have a definite several set of scents that I wear very frequently: YSL Black Opium Nuit Blanche, Tom Ford Black Orchid, Avon x Christian LaCroix Absynthe, Fresh Life and Maison Margiela Replica Beach Walk.
I certainly associate specific signature scent to different periods of my life.
College and early 20s it was certainly Givenchy Hot Couture, the fragrance gifted by a special person, that smells on my totally different than other people… the young freshness of orange and bergamot, the tart sweetness of raspberries, the playful but elegant spiciness. I think anyone who knew my at University (both bachelor and master) and at my first workplace would recognize me by that perfume.
Than it was my YSL Black Opium phase, embracing my rock and roll personality without dressing for the part (like in highschool), becoming the strong woman always smelling of vanilla and coffee, but with a touch of pear sweetness. I was also into baking at that time (and gifting to others, not eating myself) and I always loved coffee, so vanilla and coffee were not just in my fragrance.
Nowadays I’m more of a Versace Crystal Noir… I’m still spicy (pepper) and fresh (orange), but I’m more coconut than vanilla, I got the calm and gentleness of age (gardenia, peony).
I love smelling different fragrances for a second or two, but when it comes to my personal style, I’m a signature scent person. I’m very consistent with what I use, and if I like something I repurchase it again and again. My life is a string of not only signature scents, but signature foundations and lipsticks, reflecting my lifestyle, wellbeing and personal life at that time.
Atelier Cologne orange sanguine. It’s the only scent that I wear all year round, and one of only 2 scents I’ve purchased multiple bottles of in the past 20 years (the other was my beloved limited edition Escada cherry in the air).
Le Labo Vanille44 is my signature scent. And I always keep a bottle since it’s a Paris exclusive you can’t get in the USA but once a year. I used to have someone buy it for me in Paris. But I have a lot of fragrances that I circulate according to the weather, event and mostly my mood.
I always go back to 5th Avenue by Elizabeth Arden but I have many perfumes and I am always finding new ones to fall in love with.
Allow me to reminisce as well as date myself…….I love scent and started young with White Shoulders; next was Revlon’s Intimate (men loved it and purchased for their wives); then I moved on to Halston; next was Jessica McClintock (men loved it and purchased for their wives); now I use both Estee’s Private Collection and Versace Versense. If my daughter didn’t wear Dolce & Gobanna I would likely indulge.
So many scents, so little time.
Sorry, my daughter wears Dolce & Gabbana Light Blue…….
Yep, Dior Addict…since its birth in 2002…and all the flankers since, it’s still my go-to everyday to feel calm and feminine. In this changing world it’s nice to have a constant! Dior Addict is that for me.
Probably Clinique’s Aronmatics Elixir, Lancome’s Poeme and Estee Lauder’s Knowing would be the scents that I have continually purchased over the past few decades. I always have bottles of them.
I don’t own many perfumes as going in to try and find a new scent from the almost never ending collection is so overwhelming. Not to mention that after about 4, they all mingle in to one and my nose just gives up.
I’d say that my heart belongs to Marc Jacobs Divine Decadence which is sweet enough that I can wear it in the day and sultry enough that I feel like a bit of goddess when I careen it around at night.
I’m still hoping to find that perfect ethereal scent that is woodsy and earthy but with some sweetness to even it out. A bit like the yankee candle midsummers night. If anyone has any suggestions, I would be indebted to them!
Okay, I haven’t smelled this one personally, but I’ve been reading this perfumer’s descriptions lately and this one came to mind: https://www.etsy.com/listing/469245956/white-woods-natural-perfume-woodsy
It’s described as a woodsy vanilla, with white cedar, vanilla, yuzu and linaloe wood.
One I have tried that sounds similar to Midsummer’s Night (been awhile since I sniffed that one! Lol) is: https://solsticescents-com.3dcartstores.com/GUARDIAN-EAU-DE-PARFUM-EDP-60-ml-Perfume-Spray–Natural-Amber-Forest-Chypre-Blend-With-Amber-Sandalwood-Vetiver-Patchouli-Oakmoss-White-Sage-Desert-Sage-Pinyon-Spikenard-Oud-More-_p_729.html
It’s lovely. I had to find my sample a new home because my husband detests patchouli (😢)
Check out Byredo’s Bal d’ Afrique
My signature scent is Lira from Xerjoff. Love it.
I haven’t been wearing fragrance lately, but when I worked with other people (lol) I wore YSL’s Black Opium a lot.
Chanel Coco Mademoiselle in the sprint/summer, Byredo Bal d’ Afrique in the fall/winter months.