Fragrances

How to Choose a Fragrance

Start with the scents you already enjoy. Fragrance families and individual notes can help narrow the choice, particularly when shopping for perfume online. Floral and citrus scents often feel fresher and brighter, while woods, amber, musk, tobacco and spice can create warmer or deeper profiles.

If you prefer floral scents, browse floral eau de parfum for women. For fragrances with a stronger creative identity or less conventional combinations, explore niche fragrances.

Common scent profiles include:

• Floral: rose, jasmine, iris and other flower-led compositions
• Fresh and citrus: bergamot, lemon, orange and green notes
• Woody: sandalwood, cedar, vetiver and earthy notes
• Warm and spicy: amber, vanilla, tobacco, incense and spice
• Aromatic: herbs, botanicals and fresh green notes

Fragrance develops differently from person to person, so discovery sets, samples and travel sizes can be useful when you want to wear a scent for a few hours before committing to a full bottle.

Eau de Parfum, Perfume Oils and Fragrance Houses

Format can change how a fragrance feels and wears. Eau de parfum is typically alcohol-based and applied as a spray, while perfume oils are applied directly to pulse points and tend to sit closer to the skin. Neither format is automatically better. The right choice depends on the fragrance itself and how you prefer to wear it.

The collection includes distinctive fragrance houses with very different approaches. Maison Louis Marie offers botanical-inspired perfume oils and eau de parfums, including the warm, woody Maison Marie Louis no 4.

The 19-69 collection takes a more expressive approach, with scents inspired by music, art, places and cultural moments. Bon Parfumeur offers French fragrances organised around scent families and designed to be worn individually or layered.

Shoppers interested in Australian perfume brands can also find locally made fragrance within the wider range, alongside established international houses.

Clean, Vegan and Cruelty-Free Fragrance

Fragrance preferences are not only about how something smells. Ingredients and production standards can also shape what you choose.

Browse clean perfumes for fragrances selected around clearer ingredient and formulation standards. Because there is no single universal definition of "clean perfume", individual product information is the best place to check exactly what a formula does and does not contain.

If avoiding animal-derived ingredients is important to you, the vegan perfume collection makes those options easier to find. Vegan and cruelty-free describe different things, so check both attributes when they matter to your purchase.