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Bergamot’s sheer, dry, citrusy feel is one of the most popular perfume notes, especially in mens’ cologne. It’s a Mediterranean fruit grown mainly in Calabria, Italy, and its aroma and taste is slightly between grapefruit and orange. Bergamot is a year-round pleasure to wear, and will blend well with any other note, making bergamot fragrances versatile and a sophisticated option for citrus fragrance fans.

Pineapple’s sticky, sweet, juicy thickness creates a tropical and creamy tone in perfume. Its mouth-filling rich scent is best paired with fuller, heavier notes like jasmine sambac, Damask rose, gardenia, tuberose, pear, watermelon, melon, ginger, and cinnamon. It’s also a sensual treat in vanilla-based gourmand fragrances. Pineapple’s distinctive, round, pear/orange/red apple aroma is ideal for summer season, especially for travel vacations to countries known for their fiery market spices. Its rich, tangy texture in a perfume is a lovely complement to exotic heat.

Jasmine is the ultimate aphrodisiac in perfume. It is the most intimate, sexy, gorgeous, and sensually appetizing of all the major white floral notes. Jasmine’s buttery, silky, vanilla-and-heated skin aroma is found everywhere in perfume, in both men’s and women’s scents. It’s incredible versatility is hard to match: it can soar on its own, or be artfully blended into the background, to provide a dangerous growl to an simple, demure floral bouquet. It’s also one of the most popular notes, especially in women’s perfume, so if you enjoy jasmine’s torrid sensuality, you can build a devastating fragrance collection in no time.

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