Fragrance categories and families

By PFAAdmin | August 1, 2022

Fragrance families

Fragrances can be categorised into four major families: floral, spicy, woody and fresh. These each have subcategories.

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If you love to smell the flowers, this fragrance family is for you.

These perfumes can be described as soft, powdery, sweet, creamy, light musky.

With a heart of sweet floral notes and subtle spicy, smoky, balsamic or amber notes, these perfumes have heavy, long-lasting base notes.

Smooth, spicy, warm, sensual, these fragrances have a softer, more spicy style of oriental.

These fragrances are rich, warm, spicy, exotic and sensual.

Woods and spices combine with rich, oriental notes with patchouli, sandalwood, cedar or vetiver.

Raw and simple, usually containing a few of the woodsy notes like sandalwood, cedar, vetiver.

With cedar, tobacco or burnt wood notes..

These fragrances are clean, fresh and easy to like.

These perfumes have prominent citrus notes of lemon, bergamot, orange, grapefruit and/or mandarin.

These perfumes capture the scent of soft sea breeze, the air after a thunderstorm and the freshness of a waterfall.

For the smell of fresh cut grass and mint, basil or other leaves.

Smells good enough to eat.

You can discover wonderful fragrances from fragrance families that you like, as well as fragrance notes that work well for your chemistry.

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