Perfumes

The perfume you wear is your signature. Whether it’s floral, chypre, amber or fruity, it will stay with you through seasons and moods.

Even if the bottle looks good, buying perfume isn't like buying cakes from a shop window, where you go for whatever takes your fancy! You need to take your time and smell dozens of perfumes before you settle on the one that matches your mood and deepest desires.
 
Which perfume for which character? Fresh, floral notes with instant charm will please extroverted and bold personalities. Oriental notes with intense traces attract mysterious and sensual girls. Powdered notes are for emotional narcissists or young-at-heart women. Floral-fruity fragrances match optimistic characters who like taking the lead. Chypre perfumes suit ambitious, full of character women.

Read the rest of the practical guide and discover which perfumes suit you

Discover the new trends in perfume!

• Who's who: the faces of fragrance
• Purse sprays for perfume on the go!

See also: Perfume trends for the season

A perfume should be a veil of scent that reveals your personality, character and emotions. How do you select a perfume that suits you and enhances your beauty? Here’s how to read the secrets of a scent…

• How to choose perfume
• How to wear perfume
• What's your perfume style?
• Which perfumes are made for you?

Take the quiz: Choose the right fragrance for you

For enveloping scents and sensual fragrances, discover our selection of winter perfumes.

• Autumn/winter perfumes
• Floral perfumes for autumn/winter
• Christmas perfumes
• Festive perfumes

See also: Purse sprays for perfume on the go

Enjoy a spritz of light, vibrant, fresh fragrances with our selection of summer perfumes.

• Perfumes for hazy summer days 
• New perfumes for summer 
• Summer perfumes 
• Summer scents
• Flower-power perfumes for spring
• New perfumes for spring

See also: Summer perfume special

Male fragrances can work us up into a frenzy. Discover the latest scents for men.

• Metrosexual scents
• Seductive scents for men
• Jude Law for Dior Homme Intense
• Kylie's fragrance for men
• Sex Panther cologne
   

See also: Fresh fragrances for men

Perfumes make a great gift. Discover all our perfume gift ideas.

• Countdown to Christmas: festive perfumes
• Christmas perfumes
• Valentine's Day perfumes
• Purse sprays for perfume on the go

Discover more beauty gift ideas

In the words of one Coco Chanel: "Wear perfume wherever you want to be embraced.” Perfume reacts on contact with skin and releases a fragrance  that’s unique to the wearer's skin.
The effects of heat also make perfumes release their scents, so apply your perfume to pulse points and areas which get hot or moist: your temples, neck (including the nape), backs of your knees, between your breasts, ankles, small of your back, navel, behind your ear lobes, and the inside of your wrists. With each heartbeat, you’ll release your fragrance!
Also apply to extremely mobile parts of your body too, so that every time you move you’ll waft your fragrance around.

See also: How to choose a perfume?

> History of Chanel N°5 perfume

> The Story of Geza Schoen's Escentric Molecules

> Discover your personal perfume with the Astro Perfume

> History of the biggest names in perfume

> Survey: you and your perfume

> Read all our perfume articles in soFeminine's Perfumes section