Coconut’s tropical sweetness conjures up visions of a perfect island paradise whenever it’s added to a fragrance. It works best with deep florals such as gardenia, jasmine, and rose, as well as any other sweet note you like. Coconut also highlights other tropical citrus notes such as pineapple, yuzu, litchee, and peach. If you love exotic AND sweet notes in your fragrances, coconut’s smooth, fresh, sweetness will soon be one of your favorites. Coconut scents are best for summer, and also make a fun alternative to heavier winter fragrances.

Created by perfumers, the praline note reproduces the sweet, gourmand scent of caramel with molecules such as Maltol or Ethyl Maltol. Reminiscent of childhood sweets, praline is decadently warm, vanilla-sweet, and adds a balsamic facet to fragrances. A smooth, milky, and candy floss-scented base note. Count on this popular gourmand note to make any fragrance extra sweet and tempting. It smells like roasted nuts and sugar, with an added dose of warmth and delight. Sprinkled generously in gourmand fragrances, it is a regular star in feminine creations, although any predominantly masculine fragrance is perked up by its lively presence.

Alluring, sensual, enticing… Musk is well-known for its aphrodisiac powers. Perfumers play with a myriad of synthetic musks to fix, blend and mold ingredients in a number of intoxicating accords. These notes are clean and transparent—lending a velvety, skinny effect. Musk notes in perfume used to be processed from the actual musk glands of animals to impart a gamey, warm, and sensual texture. But this practice is illegal in modern times, and nowadays musk notes in fragrance are entirely synthetic. Musk’s tangy aroma can range from sheer, metallic and bright to very animalic and even as intimate as the scent of warm, damp, human skin. Musk adds a sultry, sensual feel to demure feminine scents, as well as making masculine notes like tobacco and leather vividly expressive in cologne. For perfume fans who enjoy the alluring scent of warm, clean, skin - musk is a must-have note in fragrance.

Lavender is one of the oldest, and most common perfume ingredients in the world. It’s gentlemanly, scrubbed, soapy/powdery feel is a staple of men’s colognes. Lavender has a slightly spicy edge as well, which makes it a universally blendable note in perfume. It can add a clean edge to aromatic or animalic scents, and deepen zesty citrus notes with its subtle, herbal facets. But most of all, lavender is associated with fresh, clean, pure, old-school elegance. It’s well-heeled sophistication is appropriate for any time of year, and it makes an excellent choice for either sex to wear casually or formally.