Floral fragrances achieve a style and complexity that is uniquely their own. From the singularly complex to the utterly symphonic, the category encapsulates the most diverse and distinct of styles. In this sample pack, we offer a taste of the many different florals available in perfume format.
Eau de Protection by Etat Libre d'Orange harnesses the tenacity of brooding black pepper, cumin, and ginger to create a brilliant and addictively unconventional rose scent. A fistful of roses are crushed amongst these spice notes, creating a scent greater than the sum of its parts. It transforms its central rose note so it appears larger than itself – its cliched prettiness and delicacy transforms into pure strength – an engulfing flame that leaves an extraordinary trail. Tea Service (Chasing Scents) celebrates gorgeous jasmine flower in context: it is certainly a tea fragrance, a floral tinted oolong also with an osmanthus facet, offering a long wearing experience where these floral notes are prime. Tea itself is a floral note, lending a distinctive tannic feeling that only amplifies the company it keeps.
In Iris de Nuit from Heeley, its namesake note merges with violet flower to create a classic and highly traditional floral. A distinctive earthiness trails with a long length. It has the rich textures of the terrestrial - a medley of angelica seed, ambrette, and carrot seed, amplifies the effect of iris absolute, which ranges across buttery and waxy, woody and dry, stemmy green, and sweetly floral facets. Its feeling is indeed nocturnal – melancholic, tempestuous, and grey – and yet remarkably velvety and cool. Slightly sweet, but simply earthly and floral.
From the earthy to warm and humid scenes, Un Bel Amour d’Ete by Parfum d’Empire celebrates the tropical summery floral. Flowers that absorb the radiance of sunlight: gardenia, magnolia, champaca, and ylang offer an extraordinary potency - they are full and rich, sizzling with additions of turmeric and cumin, rounded out with sandalwood and vanilla. Sun-kissed and tanned, the quality of its natural ingredients are undeniable. Similarly, Lost in Heaven (Francesca Bianchi) calls upon incredible orange blossom absolute, building a spicy, ambery chypre. Its formula is long and developed - its ingredients sing and its contrasts find satisfying resolution. Jasmine absolute, mimosa, heliotrope develop the central floral feature, with facets of animalics, honied spices, and resins producing a delirious boom of scent.
MAAI by Bogue Profumo takes this intensity further - to the absolute limit. This is a classic grand architecture of floral power, ascendant with an upwards sweep of shiny and effervescent aldehydes. Its frame is chypric, lusciously filled with extracts of rose, jasmine, tuberose - a retro trio that fills this frame with curves and richness. MAAI feels like a forcefield of scent, layer upon layer shifting and shuffling. Huge doses of oakmoss and animalics keep the scent in glorious momentum.
