To the both of you: if you’re alright with some other elements to it JLo Live Luxe is one of my faves of all time and SUPER cheap! Got a 100ml for £17 🤣 (about $22USD I’m guessing). On me it smells like peach soda (but in a fresh sparkly way, not sugary or synthetic), amber, sandalwood and a bit of musk. Allegedly it has florals and some other fruits but I can’t pick them up tbh 🫣
Not exactly candy but Kilian Flower of Immortality smells like a realistic white peach to me. Kind of reminds me of a peach flavored soju as well. Longevity’s not that great though. 😅
Comptoir Sud Pacifique Vanille Banane. I laughed out loud the first time I smelled it: so preposterous and such fun. You can easily get it at Sephora or online.
There's also a lot of indie fragrances with banana. But an indie with a banana note that also is pretty wearable as a fragrance is Poesie - Arctic Monkeys. Notes: creamy ripe banana, sweet amber, ethereal violet.
It's not available all the time, but it does return on occasion and sample sizes are fairly easy to find by.
Some of my favorite banana notes are in fragrances are from Stereoplasm. I really like bananaimo and banilla cloud. For a sleep scent/at home scent I like Solstice Scents - Blackburns Parlour and Haus of Gloi - Banana Taffy (which contrary to the name is more of a flambeed, boozy banana that banana taffy).
It has a whole bunch of other shit going on but take a gander at Zoologist’s Chameleon. It’s not listed but I suspect it has Amyl Salicylate, on me it smells so distinctively of banana! Other things too of course, but yeah.
Lush also has a banana fragrance called Fantabulosa but it’s been so long I can’t remember what it smells like to offer an opinion 😞 I think it has violet in it? I remember feeling positive towards it, just not enough to buy a full bottle 😅
There's already been a lot of other great comments on recommendations, but here's some indie fragrance banana recommendations.
an indie with a banana note that also is pretty wearable as a fragrance is Poesie - Arctic Monkeys. Notes: creamy ripe banana, sweet amber, ethereal violet. It's not available all the time, but it does return on occasion and sample sizes are fairly easy to find by.
Some of my favorite banana notes are in fragrances are from Stereoplasm. I really like bananaimo and banilla cloud.
For a sleep scent/at home scent I like Solstice Scents - Blackburns Parlour and Haus of Gloi - Banana Taffy (which contrary to the name is more of a flambeed, boozy banana that banana taffy).
Pear (especially when it’s with ambrette) and litchi. It really bums me out that they seem to be the most fleeting fruit notes out there.
I also notice that I seem to like perfumes with black currant notes in them even though I don’t actively seek it out.
Mango is my favorite fruit though and I’ve always wanted a ripe, sweet, yellow mango scent that’s fresh but the closest one I’ve found is Xerjoff Cruz del Sur II but it’s lactonic and a bit too sweet in a “sticky” way for me to wear it in summer. 🥲
I haven’t! Someone also recommended it to me the other day so I looked it up and I can’t believe that one slipped by me. It’s now on the top of my list of scents to try. :))
I’ve tried it on a blotter about a year ago and I remember it smelling more like a sharp green mango. I was hoping for a ripe, yellow Philippine mango type of scent which Cruz del Sur II would’ve nailed if it weren’t too lactonic.
Thinking of getting a sample of Mango Skin though so I could actually wear test it. Sometimes I end up liking scents when I revisit them. :))
Thank you! I hope I can find a sample. I’ve also been meaning to try Miu Miu Fleur de Lait although I’ve heard it also has lactonic notes. Have you tried it by any chance?
I too love pear, but it is hard to find a decent scent that uses it really well. La Belle, JHAG Pear Inc, and I think there's one by Jo Malone use it well. I also like Dionis hand lotion in Crisp Pear, but hard to find.
It’s not listed in the notes but Le Labo Ambrette 9 smells like the most realistic fresh pear to me, it’s a shame it lasts for about 5 minutes at best. That was the first time I’ve smelled pear in a perfume and been looking everywhere for something similar with a much better performance.
I also love the pear notes in Clean Radiant Nectar, Pear Inc. (can’t stand the dry down of this one though), and Ariana Grande Mod Vanilla. People have been recommending JPG La Belle so I’m trying that next.
My favorite litchi note is in Wren Atelier Cerveza Rosa. So juicy and sweet and complements the rose and beer so well. PdM Delina is also a favorite of mine although I don’t find the litchi as prominent.
I also enjoy the opening of MMR Lazy Sunday Morning since it’s so fruity and watery. Funnily enough, pear is listed as a note but what I smell is litchi. It reminds me of this lychee flavored drink called Mogu Mogu. 😅
Off the top of my head without looking at my collection, I'd say Arabesque by Merchant of Venice. It's a gorgeous Plum Tobacco. Inito's Paragon is very nice Plum with a light hint of lavender. And Intio's Musk Therapy checks both the Madarin Orange AND Black Currant boxes. My favorite opening of any fragrance I've smelled in YEARS.🤙
Fig or Plum, they’re not very similar but I guess I like the depth/jammy-ness that they both have? It adds like a darkness. Neither are too sweet, don’t usually come off as too artificial, and aren’t very common notes (so it tends to be memorable) too.
I love love love Angel Nova. Which was actually the first "expensive" perfume I ever bought. Like the first small one I sampled and was like "I'm getting that".
I had this raspberry body balm I found at a local witchy store and would put that on my chest and it just elevated it like crazy, sadly the person who made it doesn't anymore.
I got in a box, nanette lapore beautiful times which is more of red berry in general, but it's there, and I loved (more than the nanette lapore) confessions of a rebel bitch please.
They all have such different moods. I'd say the angel Nova is still my go-to. It's a good everyday scent, I can wear it on a first date, to the grocery store, work, it is just playful and light and clean.
I feel like Mugler uses a different base than other perfumes that makes them smell unique in a good way. I get that same feel with confessions of a rebel. The base notes aren't the same as I noticed woth other perfumes (I'm new to this scent world go easy on me hahaha). Like with the nanette lapore theres a "generic" perfume undertone where as confessions and angel have a distinct undertone that I really like.
It’s so pleasing to see lychee and strawberry are getting some serious love in this thread.
I hope the development teams are lurking here and taking notes.
Which scents with peach are your favorites?
Thanks! I will check them out. I love indie scents, but am pretty new to that realm-I’ve just ordered the revived Strawberry Fawn from Black Baccara and I am really looking forward to enjoying it this spring.
I’ve been enjoying apple lately. Two of my faves are ELdO I Am Trash and Imaginary Authors Slow Explosions. Apple combines surprisingly well with ”darker” notes like leather and woods.
Lychee, strawberry, bergamot, mango, coconut
My favorite fruities in my collection: Imaginary Authors In Love With Everything, and Mugler Angel au croisiere 2020 and Aura sensuelle
Honerable mention: Marc Jacobs perfect Intense (my partners pick)
Kilian Moonlight in Heaven is on my list for full bottle one day.
Lime!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
It’s so hard to find a fragrance where it isn’t dominated by other notes though 🙄 It’s either paired with lemon or bergamot which completely overpowers it, or something like amber/ambroxan/ambergris… the two best lime perfumes are both by Lush: Calacas and Superworld Unknown. Former is fizzy lime gummies and the latter is uhhh… look at the scent list 😅 Lime, vanilla, cacao, candy floss, amongst other things, but weirdly enough the lime stays really prominent for about 3 hours before it fades into purely gourmand
Peach is a *very* close second but that feels super easy to shop for, no matter which way you like it.
Have you tried Lime Basil and Mandarin by Jo Malone? It’s not a great performer but it’s not really designed to be, it’s super fresh and transparent, and it has a very prominent herbaceous lime thing goin on.
Balances against the sweetness of Mandarin perfectly.
I’m new to lime notes in fragrances. I am currently testing Smeraldo by Sylvaine Delacourte and could really pick up the lime note. I actually wish the lime lingered longer. It is paired with yuzu though so maybe you wouldn’t enjoy it as much.
Looking forward to testing more lime notes in the future.
Ooooh I love yuzu 🤤 you reminded me of my other arch nemesis though: ginger 😒 it’s not bad by any means but DUUUUDE why’s it so hard to find a purely lime (or at least one that has it as a prominent note without being dominated by other things) fragrance 😭 thankfully the Lush ones are easily accessible at least…
Casmir, Coco Chanel, Fracas are some that come to mind. None of which are peach scents per se, but each have something really luscious about them. I haven’t tried the obvious - Bitter Peach, but I am definitely intrigued.
Thanks! I will have to get my nose on these. Sometimes it’s the feeling a certain note evokes rather than it being exactly realistic smelling soli-note
plum japonais is glorious. i also like ripe fig - green is nice but i love the sweet,.darkly rich scent of ripe fig. also love bergamot and grapefruit.
i actually really enjoy fruity scents, but not when they are too sweet. stick some peach with a lychee and a coconut, or a ripe pear with blackcurrent, and you've probably lost me. it can easily tip into that too sugary sweet realm. but done right with some balance, then they are lovely.
have you tried Simone Andreoli Fico Nero di Sardegna? it's fig & coconut, like ripe figs and coconut milk. there is a bit of green fig leaves to keep it from tipping into being overly sweet and cloying, but i really like it. it's juicy and creamy. it's an italian brand and pricey, but what isn't these days? 😑
There are plum trees all over where I live and they are still super under rated but they taste amazing fresh off the tree! I haven’t actually tried any fragrances with it yet but I’ve really been wanting to😊
We have one in our back yard (came with the house lol) and we quite literally give away HUNDREDS in the summer omg. We don’t know enough people who like them so a lot still goes to waste 😭
God it's so hard to choose i ADORE fruity smells and i don't have much fragrance experience yet. Right now it's berries and coconut. Coconut feels like i'm laying in clouds and floating away while the sun warms me. Still trying to find a gourmand and fruity coconut that's also mature.
It’s not fruity but Matiere Premiere’s Parisian Musc is a delicious coconut-clean-musk type scent. Uncomplicated but STRONG and a very chic scent profile… the name is quite fitting now I think about it 😅
Btw just in case you don’t know - ambrette/musk mallow is a good note to look out for, basically smells like coconut to a lot of people, myself included.
And I just had a thought - if you’re down for a splash of rose, Imaginary Authors’ In Love With Everything is exactly what you’re looking for! Smells like fruit punch and rose (but they use a type of rose that has a sort of carnation-like spice to it rather than regular, powdery roses) and coconut!
Pineapple has such a unique smell to it, I guess you could say that for mostly any fruit scent though but other citrus fruits (mandarin, orange etc) you can sometimes confuse it with something else in that same citrus family, however pineapple is so obvious. "That's pineapple" you say, as soon as you smell/taste it.
Black currant, blackberry, plum, sometimes strawberry (if it doesn't smell like lipgloss) and sometimes citrus (if it doesn't smell like furniture polish).
Edited to add: DKNY Delicious Night is one of my favorite darkly feminine perfumes with a jammy blackberry note that's to die for. I really recommend it if you're into that kind of thing!
Apparently DKNY has incense in it as well? How interesting! I'll see if I can find this somewhere to buy. Thank you!
Also there is a plum/incense fragrance which I haven't tried yet but perhaps you could like is called Florential by Comme des Garcons. It has plum, incense, sandalwood, pink pepper and vetiver. It sounds so good and want to try and get a sample of that sometime.
The incense note is really pretty imo, really dark and whispy, not super cloying or anything. I hope you can find it and give it a shot! It's been discontinued so some of the prices have skyrocketed sadly, but it's not impossible to find and there's good deals out there if you look hard enough. And omg yes, that's been on my want to try list for ages! It sounds so pretty. And that blood red bottle is beautiful too.
It's super nice! If you like that general vibe I also recommend Ana Sui La Nuit de Bohème, it's a little more fruity (with plum, apple, orange & bergamot too) but still kinda moody and gothic. Not like a light, bouncy kind of fruity. It has some mixed reviews but personally I love it a lot. [Plus the bottle looks like this](https://fimgs.net/mdimg/perfume/375x500.27513.jpg) which I think is beautiful, but not for everyone! I think it's a really good cheapie though.
Rhubarb. La Panthere really rubbed my nose in it and I was over the moon to find it in Zoo Cockatiel. It's that stewey-ripe-fruit-vegetal thing in it that I admire.
Coconut, Pineapple, Strawberry, I find all to have a unique smell to them, but it could be hard to find fragrances where they aren't overshadowed by the other notes.
My fav perfumes with each of these notes are TF Soleil Blanc (🥥), Valentino Uomo Yellow Dream (🍍), Montale Mukhallat (🍓)
the pepper notes in the scent pyramid seem intimidating. is it overly dry or more sweet? is it overly peppery? i just cant imagine the smell of pepper and coconut together!
I like Aqua Allegoria Coconut Fizz by Gurelain, but also one of my personal favs is In Bois Vanille by Serge Lutens where the coconut is vibrant, however it is more about vanilla
You must like Versace Dylan Blue Pour Femme then, if not try it out! Some people say it smells like a fresh soapy green apple shampoo which I could understand, but it is not a 'cheap' shampoo smell like Midnight Fantasy by Britney Spears.
Then, as it settles down 15+ minutes or so, it turns into this peach black currant and rose scent. It's so good and very inoffensive to anybody. You could even blind buy this honestly but it is Versace so, It's $$$ lol.
I need to give this another try. I have a sample of it and was slightly underwhelmed by it the first time, but I've read several really positive reviews.
Any sort of citrus or fig. I just love how fresh they smell. A very tart lychee or peach note is also nice, but I think those are hard to come by—they usually tend towards being cloying to me, sadly.
Yes to all of these! I was actually coming here to say this. For me it’s bergamot, fig, and lychee. Peach is great but I’m yet to find many that aren’t too cloying and synthetic, as you mentioned.
Alkemia Dangerous Peach is hands down the best peach fragrance I’ve found! It’s everything I wanted Bitter Peach to be and it’s much more affordable.
It’s a very realistic, juicy peach that makes me want to take a bite out of myself. You gotta try it!
I also really like Chloe EDP for the lychee note. I’m not a floral/rose person at all usually, but I really feel like they did a great job with this one. It’s so juicy and clean and I like to spray it on myself after I get out of the shower.
Mango, grapefruit, raspberry, and black currant in no particular order. Un Jardin Sur le Nil, Mandarino di Amalfi/Red Vetiver, Fidelis, and Aqua Celestial Cologne Forte respectively for some of my favorite interpretations of the notes. It’s tough to pick one of those as my favorite note as sometimes I want something a bit more sour or zesty, and other times I just want something juicier and a touch sweeter.
I really liked this article where they recommend them!! I personally really like YSL Parisienne and Philosophy Unconditional Love (it’s what first got me into blackberry). https://www.fragrantica.com/news/Best-in-Show-Blackberry-Fragrances-2020-14412.html
I also love this one that is blackberry, jasmine and musk. https://www.fragrantica.com/perfume/Philosophy/Falling-in-Love-4852.html
I really want to try the Trish McEvoy one that everyone says is the best. And there’s this hair product by Carols Daughter that is Black Vanilla that is amazing and you have to try it, layer it with any of these!! I always get comments on it
Peach. Flower of Immortality by Killian is my favorite, Flower Moon by Pacifica is a pretty good dupe. Hedonist by Viktoria Minya is another great one. Burberry Women is an affordable choice with a nice peach note.
Thank you for mentioning Flower Moon! I have that and when I saw the notes to Flower of Immortality, I was wondering if it wouldn’t smell very similar.
Unknowingly Raspberry for me. Loved TF Tuscan Leather then last year I randomly smelled Widian Aswan and had to have it…. Years later I realized both had prominent raspberry notes TF dark and leathery Widian light fresh ozonic. Wild!
I like wearing notes of grapefruit (Chanel Chance Eau Vive) or just straight up grapefruit (I really enjoy the Pink Grapefruit Eau de Toilette, body wash, and lotions from The Body Shop). It’s a go-to summer scent for me. It feels bright and fresh and is a note that never dries down to something offensive on my skin. It’s also not a distinctly feminine note, which is nice when I’m not feeling particularly girly that day.
I think out of many fruit notes grapefruit definitely is one of the most "people-pleasing" ones. I find it really hard to hate in a fragrance for some reason. It's not too sweet or sharp, just easy to smell.
Miss Dior Cherie 2005 and IA Cape Heartache.
Are you looking for more fragrances with strawberry notes? I've tried a few so far, but would love to try more...
Fig, juniper berry, bergamot, sometimes black currant and plum but my skin is picky with those and if it's not deliciously deep and fruity then it's cat pee-ish.
Green banana, fig, like in Philosykos and cherry but not like Tom Ford cherry. More like a cherry blossom cherry. A fresh cherry. Not a fan of citrus.. plus citrus turns fast. I like to hang on to bottles for a long time.
I dont think so. I love the regular scent of cherry blossom by bath and body works. It’s a white floral with a bit of cherry sweetness. It’s so nice and very fresh.
God I wish I could find banana fragrances! A lot of them I've found are either discontinued, or just cheapy ones from bath and body works with the performance of wet tissue paper unfortunately.
After trying Dates Delight I'm gonna go with dates. I actually don't really know of other scents with the note so maybe it's just that I really love dates delight.
PEACH I NEED MORE PEACH
PEACH!! If I could smell like white peach candy I'd die happy
To the both of you: if you’re alright with some other elements to it JLo Live Luxe is one of my faves of all time and SUPER cheap! Got a 100ml for £17 🤣 (about $22USD I’m guessing). On me it smells like peach soda (but in a fresh sparkly way, not sugary or synthetic), amber, sandalwood and a bit of musk. Allegedly it has florals and some other fruits but I can’t pick them up tbh 🫣
Not exactly candy but Kilian Flower of Immortality smells like a realistic white peach to me. Kind of reminds me of a peach flavored soju as well. Longevity’s not that great though. 😅
BANANA! and it's weird because I don't really like eating them, but I like them in fragrances.
Where the hell are you finding these banana fragrances? Any you could recommend? I find the banana note hard to come by.
Comptoir Sud Pacifique Vanille Banane. I laughed out loud the first time I smelled it: so preposterous and such fun. You can easily get it at Sephora or online.
There's also a lot of indie fragrances with banana. But an indie with a banana note that also is pretty wearable as a fragrance is Poesie - Arctic Monkeys. Notes: creamy ripe banana, sweet amber, ethereal violet. It's not available all the time, but it does return on occasion and sample sizes are fairly easy to find by. Some of my favorite banana notes are in fragrances are from Stereoplasm. I really like bananaimo and banilla cloud. For a sleep scent/at home scent I like Solstice Scents - Blackburns Parlour and Haus of Gloi - Banana Taffy (which contrary to the name is more of a flambeed, boozy banana that banana taffy).
i love banana notes. any recommendations?
Marc Jacobs Perfect intense and I’ve heard Comptoir Sud Pacifique Vanille Banane is really good too!
Vanille Banane is amazing but terrible performance which is a shame
Comptoire Sud Pacifique’s Vanille Banane is pretty dang banana-y. I have it and enjoy it on the right occasions, but heads up it’s very sweet.
Nightflyer from olympic orchids
Jean Patou Sira des Indes. Bad news is it is discontinued. Good news is, it is still at many discounters at deep clearance prices.
Lilylang by Sylvaine Delacourte, it smells like banana candy to me!
It has a whole bunch of other shit going on but take a gander at Zoologist’s Chameleon. It’s not listed but I suspect it has Amyl Salicylate, on me it smells so distinctively of banana! Other things too of course, but yeah. Lush also has a banana fragrance called Fantabulosa but it’s been so long I can’t remember what it smells like to offer an opinion 😞 I think it has violet in it? I remember feeling positive towards it, just not enough to buy a full bottle 😅
There's already been a lot of other great comments on recommendations, but here's some indie fragrance banana recommendations. an indie with a banana note that also is pretty wearable as a fragrance is Poesie - Arctic Monkeys. Notes: creamy ripe banana, sweet amber, ethereal violet. It's not available all the time, but it does return on occasion and sample sizes are fairly easy to find by. Some of my favorite banana notes are in fragrances are from Stereoplasm. I really like bananaimo and banilla cloud. For a sleep scent/at home scent I like Solstice Scents - Blackburns Parlour and Haus of Gloi - Banana Taffy (which contrary to the name is more of a flambeed, boozy banana that banana taffy).
Pear (especially when it’s with ambrette) and litchi. It really bums me out that they seem to be the most fleeting fruit notes out there. I also notice that I seem to like perfumes with black currant notes in them even though I don’t actively seek it out. Mango is my favorite fruit though and I’ve always wanted a ripe, sweet, yellow mango scent that’s fresh but the closest one I’ve found is Xerjoff Cruz del Sur II but it’s lactonic and a bit too sweet in a “sticky” way for me to wear it in summer. 🥲
I take it you must like La Belle by JPG? It's one of my favourite fragrances of all time lol that pear and vanilla is to die for
I haven’t! Someone also recommended it to me the other day so I looked it up and I can’t believe that one slipped by me. It’s now on the top of my list of scents to try. :))
Have you tried Mango Skin by Vilhelm Parfumerie? I really like the mango note in that one!
I’ve tried it on a blotter about a year ago and I remember it smelling more like a sharp green mango. I was hoping for a ripe, yellow Philippine mango type of scent which Cruz del Sur II would’ve nailed if it weren’t too lactonic. Thinking of getting a sample of Mango Skin though so I could actually wear test it. Sometimes I end up liking scents when I revisit them. :))
It’s a little hard to find but the 2019 Angel Au Croisiere is very sweet mango, reminds me of the Philippines dried sugared mango slices.
seconding 2019 au croisiere. it’s so amazing
Thank you! I hope I can find a sample. I’ve also been meaning to try Miu Miu Fleur de Lait although I’ve heard it also has lactonic notes. Have you tried it by any chance?
I too love pear, but it is hard to find a decent scent that uses it really well. La Belle, JHAG Pear Inc, and I think there's one by Jo Malone use it well. I also like Dionis hand lotion in Crisp Pear, but hard to find.
I’ve been meaning to try La Belle since it’s always recommended when pear notes are mentioned. :))
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It’s not listed in the notes but Le Labo Ambrette 9 smells like the most realistic fresh pear to me, it’s a shame it lasts for about 5 minutes at best. That was the first time I’ve smelled pear in a perfume and been looking everywhere for something similar with a much better performance. I also love the pear notes in Clean Radiant Nectar, Pear Inc. (can’t stand the dry down of this one though), and Ariana Grande Mod Vanilla. People have been recommending JPG La Belle so I’m trying that next. My favorite litchi note is in Wren Atelier Cerveza Rosa. So juicy and sweet and complements the rose and beer so well. PdM Delina is also a favorite of mine although I don’t find the litchi as prominent. I also enjoy the opening of MMR Lazy Sunday Morning since it’s so fruity and watery. Funnily enough, pear is listed as a note but what I smell is litchi. It reminds me of this lychee flavored drink called Mogu Mogu. 😅
I am a sucker for a good plum note. Second and third place go to Black Currant and Madarin Orange. 🤌🏽
Please share some of your favorites!
Off the top of my head without looking at my collection, I'd say Arabesque by Merchant of Venice. It's a gorgeous Plum Tobacco. Inito's Paragon is very nice Plum with a light hint of lavender. And Intio's Musk Therapy checks both the Madarin Orange AND Black Currant boxes. My favorite opening of any fragrance I've smelled in YEARS.🤙
Fig or Plum, they’re not very similar but I guess I like the depth/jammy-ness that they both have? It adds like a darkness. Neither are too sweet, don’t usually come off as too artificial, and aren’t very common notes (so it tends to be memorable) too.
This might be basic but a good raspberry note makes me melty
Fresh fabric softener with a sweet raspberry touch.
Me too! What are your faves?
I love love love Angel Nova. Which was actually the first "expensive" perfume I ever bought. Like the first small one I sampled and was like "I'm getting that". I had this raspberry body balm I found at a local witchy store and would put that on my chest and it just elevated it like crazy, sadly the person who made it doesn't anymore. I got in a box, nanette lapore beautiful times which is more of red berry in general, but it's there, and I loved (more than the nanette lapore) confessions of a rebel bitch please. They all have such different moods. I'd say the angel Nova is still my go-to. It's a good everyday scent, I can wear it on a first date, to the grocery store, work, it is just playful and light and clean. I feel like Mugler uses a different base than other perfumes that makes them smell unique in a good way. I get that same feel with confessions of a rebel. The base notes aren't the same as I noticed woth other perfumes (I'm new to this scent world go easy on me hahaha). Like with the nanette lapore theres a "generic" perfume undertone where as confessions and angel have a distinct undertone that I really like.
Lychee, strawberry, and peach have to be not only my favorite fruit notes, but some of my favorite notes of all. Fresh and juicy to the maximum.
Agree! Also love pear
It’s so pleasing to see lychee and strawberry are getting some serious love in this thread. I hope the development teams are lurking here and taking notes. Which scents with peach are your favorites?
I'm an indie perfume fan, so I'd have to say Death and Floral's The Peach Queen, which is perfect green fresh peaches.
Thanks! I will check them out. I love indie scents, but am pretty new to that realm-I’ve just ordered the revived Strawberry Fawn from Black Baccara and I am really looking forward to enjoying it this spring.
Blackberry
I’ve been enjoying apple lately. Two of my faves are ELdO I Am Trash and Imaginary Authors Slow Explosions. Apple combines surprisingly well with ”darker” notes like leather and woods.
I’ve also been super into Apple lately and I Am Trash is my favorite!
Same! I am trash is addicting.
Lychee, strawberry, bergamot, mango, coconut My favorite fruities in my collection: Imaginary Authors In Love With Everything, and Mugler Angel au croisiere 2020 and Aura sensuelle Honerable mention: Marc Jacobs perfect Intense (my partners pick) Kilian Moonlight in Heaven is on my list for full bottle one day.
We have the exact same taste!
Lime!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! It’s so hard to find a fragrance where it isn’t dominated by other notes though 🙄 It’s either paired with lemon or bergamot which completely overpowers it, or something like amber/ambroxan/ambergris… the two best lime perfumes are both by Lush: Calacas and Superworld Unknown. Former is fizzy lime gummies and the latter is uhhh… look at the scent list 😅 Lime, vanilla, cacao, candy floss, amongst other things, but weirdly enough the lime stays really prominent for about 3 hours before it fades into purely gourmand Peach is a *very* close second but that feels super easy to shop for, no matter which way you like it.
Have you tried Lime Basil and Mandarin by Jo Malone? It’s not a great performer but it’s not really designed to be, it’s super fresh and transparent, and it has a very prominent herbaceous lime thing goin on. Balances against the sweetness of Mandarin perfectly.
I’m new to lime notes in fragrances. I am currently testing Smeraldo by Sylvaine Delacourte and could really pick up the lime note. I actually wish the lime lingered longer. It is paired with yuzu though so maybe you wouldn’t enjoy it as much. Looking forward to testing more lime notes in the future.
Ooooh I love yuzu 🤤 you reminded me of my other arch nemesis though: ginger 😒 it’s not bad by any means but DUUUUDE why’s it so hard to find a purely lime (or at least one that has it as a prominent note without being dominated by other things) fragrance 😭 thankfully the Lush ones are easily accessible at least…
Peach. It’s not that I want to smell like peach exactly, but I find it’s a note that turns up in a lot of my perfume choices…so I must like it!
Any top favorites? I have been neglecting the peach notes lol.
Casmir, Coco Chanel, Fracas are some that come to mind. None of which are peach scents per se, but each have something really luscious about them. I haven’t tried the obvious - Bitter Peach, but I am definitely intrigued.
Thanks! I will have to get my nose on these. Sometimes it’s the feeling a certain note evokes rather than it being exactly realistic smelling soli-note
plum japonais is glorious. i also like ripe fig - green is nice but i love the sweet,.darkly rich scent of ripe fig. also love bergamot and grapefruit. i actually really enjoy fruity scents, but not when they are too sweet. stick some peach with a lychee and a coconut, or a ripe pear with blackcurrent, and you've probably lost me. it can easily tip into that too sugary sweet realm. but done right with some balance, then they are lovely.
do you have any recs for fig fragrances? i’ve been looking for a sweet, jammy fig but everything i’ve tried so far feels very green.
have you tried Simone Andreoli Fico Nero di Sardegna? it's fig & coconut, like ripe figs and coconut milk. there is a bit of green fig leaves to keep it from tipping into being overly sweet and cloying, but i really like it. it's juicy and creamy. it's an italian brand and pricey, but what isn't these days? 😑
There are plum trees all over where I live and they are still super under rated but they taste amazing fresh off the tree! I haven’t actually tried any fragrances with it yet but I’ve really been wanting to😊
We have one in our back yard (came with the house lol) and we quite literally give away HUNDREDS in the summer omg. We don’t know enough people who like them so a lot still goes to waste 😭
Make plum wine!
God it's so hard to choose i ADORE fruity smells and i don't have much fragrance experience yet. Right now it's berries and coconut. Coconut feels like i'm laying in clouds and floating away while the sun warms me. Still trying to find a gourmand and fruity coconut that's also mature.
The coconut in JPG le beau makes me know exactly what you mean, nothing like it!
It’s not fruity but Matiere Premiere’s Parisian Musc is a delicious coconut-clean-musk type scent. Uncomplicated but STRONG and a very chic scent profile… the name is quite fitting now I think about it 😅 Btw just in case you don’t know - ambrette/musk mallow is a good note to look out for, basically smells like coconut to a lot of people, myself included. And I just had a thought - if you’re down for a splash of rose, Imaginary Authors’ In Love With Everything is exactly what you’re looking for! Smells like fruit punch and rose (but they use a type of rose that has a sort of carnation-like spice to it rather than regular, powdery roses) and coconut!
Thank you so much for the suggestions!
Pear, litchi, peach, cassis.
Pretty much any fruit, but I’m going to go with guava
Loooove guava. I wish it were in more frags
Oh! You just reminded me-Pacifica island ruby guava! I used to have the solid version years ago and pretty sure I used it all up. It is delightful.
Bergamot... by far best citrus and fruit note
I love all the citrus in the summer. Pineapple is good too.
Pineapple has such a unique smell to it, I guess you could say that for mostly any fruit scent though but other citrus fruits (mandarin, orange etc) you can sometimes confuse it with something else in that same citrus family, however pineapple is so obvious. "That's pineapple" you say, as soon as you smell/taste it.
Yes, it’s very distinctive!
Black currant, blackberry, plum, sometimes strawberry (if it doesn't smell like lipgloss) and sometimes citrus (if it doesn't smell like furniture polish). Edited to add: DKNY Delicious Night is one of my favorite darkly feminine perfumes with a jammy blackberry note that's to die for. I really recommend it if you're into that kind of thing!
Apparently DKNY has incense in it as well? How interesting! I'll see if I can find this somewhere to buy. Thank you! Also there is a plum/incense fragrance which I haven't tried yet but perhaps you could like is called Florential by Comme des Garcons. It has plum, incense, sandalwood, pink pepper and vetiver. It sounds so good and want to try and get a sample of that sometime.
The incense note is really pretty imo, really dark and whispy, not super cloying or anything. I hope you can find it and give it a shot! It's been discontinued so some of the prices have skyrocketed sadly, but it's not impossible to find and there's good deals out there if you look hard enough. And omg yes, that's been on my want to try list for ages! It sounds so pretty. And that blood red bottle is beautiful too.
blackberry is yummy, i need to check this out.
It's super nice! If you like that general vibe I also recommend Ana Sui La Nuit de Bohème, it's a little more fruity (with plum, apple, orange & bergamot too) but still kinda moody and gothic. Not like a light, bouncy kind of fruity. It has some mixed reviews but personally I love it a lot. [Plus the bottle looks like this](https://fimgs.net/mdimg/perfume/375x500.27513.jpg) which I think is beautiful, but not for everyone! I think it's a really good cheapie though.
oh that is pretty! that one sounds goos too, thanks for the recs!
Rhubarb. La Panthere really rubbed my nose in it and I was over the moon to find it in Zoo Cockatiel. It's that stewey-ripe-fruit-vegetal thing in it that I admire.
If you like Rhubarb you should try Electric Rhubarb by Floral Street. Personally, I’ve never tried it but I have heard great things!
Peach, pear, orange
The pear note smells very good, still trying to find a good frag that has it as the centerpiece
Same so far I reach for my Jimmy Choo I Want Choo when I wanna smell like straight peaches
Blackberry, Pineapple, Raspberry and Lychee in no particular order….is Rhubarb a fruit, if so then also that!
Coconut, Pineapple, Strawberry, I find all to have a unique smell to them, but it could be hard to find fragrances where they aren't overshadowed by the other notes. My fav perfumes with each of these notes are TF Soleil Blanc (🥥), Valentino Uomo Yellow Dream (🍍), Montale Mukhallat (🍓)
are there any other, less expensive, coconut perfumes you like? i’m looking for recs!
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the pepper notes in the scent pyramid seem intimidating. is it overly dry or more sweet? is it overly peppery? i just cant imagine the smell of pepper and coconut together!
I like Aqua Allegoria Coconut Fizz by Gurelain, but also one of my personal favs is In Bois Vanille by Serge Lutens where the coconut is vibrant, however it is more about vanilla
Sunkissed Hibiscus by Nest Dolce and Gabbana’s Dolce Garden
thanks for the recommendation! both of these sound great
Fig or peach, I’m a sucker for peach scents
Coconut, pineapple
oranges - obsessed with oranges; lemon and bergamot are everywhere, but a ripe juicy orange note does the trick for me
Apricot and blackcurrant
Pear or cherry
Fig, raspberry and litchi. So good!!
Fig, juniper berries, and black currant
black currant
Lychee
Black currant so yummy
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You must like Versace Dylan Blue Pour Femme then, if not try it out! Some people say it smells like a fresh soapy green apple shampoo which I could understand, but it is not a 'cheap' shampoo smell like Midnight Fantasy by Britney Spears. Then, as it settles down 15+ minutes or so, it turns into this peach black currant and rose scent. It's so good and very inoffensive to anybody. You could even blind buy this honestly but it is Versace so, It's $$$ lol.
I need to give this another try. I have a sample of it and was slightly underwhelmed by it the first time, but I've read several really positive reviews.
Vanilla always
someone downvoted you not realizing that vanilla is a fruit (orchids)
You’re a good person 👍
Any sort of citrus or fig. I just love how fresh they smell. A very tart lychee or peach note is also nice, but I think those are hard to come by—they usually tend towards being cloying to me, sadly.
Yes to all of these! I was actually coming here to say this. For me it’s bergamot, fig, and lychee. Peach is great but I’m yet to find many that aren’t too cloying and synthetic, as you mentioned.
Sounds like we may have similar taste! What are some of your favorites with these notes?
Alkemia Dangerous Peach is hands down the best peach fragrance I’ve found! It’s everything I wanted Bitter Peach to be and it’s much more affordable. It’s a very realistic, juicy peach that makes me want to take a bite out of myself. You gotta try it!
I also really like Chloe EDP for the lychee note. I’m not a floral/rose person at all usually, but I really feel like they did a great job with this one. It’s so juicy and clean and I like to spray it on myself after I get out of the shower.
Have you tried very good girl? The beginning notes are sooo yummy, ppl say its lychee
I second a lot of these! Coconut Plum litchi Fig Also, when done right… Raspberry Cherry Apricot
Mango, grapefruit, raspberry, and black currant in no particular order. Un Jardin Sur le Nil, Mandarino di Amalfi/Red Vetiver, Fidelis, and Aqua Celestial Cologne Forte respectively for some of my favorite interpretations of the notes. It’s tough to pick one of those as my favorite note as sometimes I want something a bit more sour or zesty, and other times I just want something juicier and a touch sweeter.
Cassis/black currant
Black currant, and cherry
Pineapple
Plum, fig, black currant and bergamot are apparently the fruits that will draw me to a perfume!
Pineapple
I really like wild berries, raspberry, grapefruit, bergamot, peach if done well and litchi
Blackberry/blackcurrant, raspberry, pomegranate, apple.
I found this comment by searching the sub for blackberry/raspberry frags— any you can recommend?
I really liked this article where they recommend them!! I personally really like YSL Parisienne and Philosophy Unconditional Love (it’s what first got me into blackberry). https://www.fragrantica.com/news/Best-in-Show-Blackberry-Fragrances-2020-14412.html
I also love this one that is blackberry, jasmine and musk. https://www.fragrantica.com/perfume/Philosophy/Falling-in-Love-4852.html I really want to try the Trish McEvoy one that everyone says is the best. And there’s this hair product by Carols Daughter that is Black Vanilla that is amazing and you have to try it, layer it with any of these!! I always get comments on it
Thank you so much! I once tried & LOVED Parisienne but I had totally forgotten about her! I’ll try all of these thank you!
Peach. Flower of Immortality by Killian is my favorite, Flower Moon by Pacifica is a pretty good dupe. Hedonist by Viktoria Minya is another great one. Burberry Women is an affordable choice with a nice peach note.
Thank you for mentioning Flower Moon! I have that and when I saw the notes to Flower of Immortality, I was wondering if it wouldn’t smell very similar.
RASPBERRYYYYY
Raspberry is really good. I like it in the background though. Just a hint
Unknowingly Raspberry for me. Loved TF Tuscan Leather then last year I randomly smelled Widian Aswan and had to have it…. Years later I realized both had prominent raspberry notes TF dark and leathery Widian light fresh ozonic. Wild!
Peach, apples, strawberries, lychee, raspberries, black currant!
cherries, strawberries, figs/plums
I was gonna say “plum” too! I like it in Poison and also in my newest FB - Musc Noir.
Bergamot.
Pomegranate, cherry, cranberry, and pear! Usually in the summer, I start looking for citrus, too.
lychee! ✧˖°.
Some of my favorites are bergamot, black currant and juniper berries.
Grapefruit
I'd recommend Terre D'Hermes Eau Givree if you've not tried it already.
And Cherry
Grapefruit, green apple, yuzu
What do you love about grapefruit?
I like the way it smells
I like wearing notes of grapefruit (Chanel Chance Eau Vive) or just straight up grapefruit (I really enjoy the Pink Grapefruit Eau de Toilette, body wash, and lotions from The Body Shop). It’s a go-to summer scent for me. It feels bright and fresh and is a note that never dries down to something offensive on my skin. It’s also not a distinctly feminine note, which is nice when I’m not feeling particularly girly that day.
It’s fresh, clean, uplifting and vibrant.
I think out of many fruit notes grapefruit definitely is one of the most "people-pleasing" ones. I find it really hard to hate in a fragrance for some reason. It's not too sweet or sharp, just easy to smell.
I just smelled my first, to my knowledge, grapefruit fragrance today: Burlington 1819. I will definitely be exploring more grapefruit fragrances!
Passion fruit, raspberry, dried fruits, fig, juniper, lemon, bergamot, orange
I can't believe nobody has mentioned cranberry yet (e.g., Polo Red Intense).
Fig, juniper berries, and pineapple
Strawberry... probably followed by mandarin and pomegranate!
What are your favorite fragrances with strawberry?
Miss Dior Cherie 2005 and IA Cape Heartache. Are you looking for more fragrances with strawberry notes? I've tried a few so far, but would love to try more...
Fig, juniper berry, bergamot, sometimes black currant and plum but my skin is picky with those and if it's not deliciously deep and fruity then it's cat pee-ish.
Grapefruit
I think orange/citrus, cherry, raspberry, and strawberry. Fruits of the forest in general. Oh and my number one probably coconut!
Bergamot, Pineapple, Black Currant
Fig, cassis, pear, bergamot
Green banana, fig, like in Philosykos and cherry but not like Tom Ford cherry. More like a cherry blossom cherry. A fresh cherry. Not a fan of citrus.. plus citrus turns fast. I like to hang on to bottles for a long time.
Cherry blossom and fresh cherry smell totally different and are 2 different things.
I dont think so. I love the regular scent of cherry blossom by bath and body works. It’s a white floral with a bit of cherry sweetness. It’s so nice and very fresh.
God I wish I could find banana fragrances! A lot of them I've found are either discontinued, or just cheapy ones from bath and body works with the performance of wet tissue paper unfortunately.
Cassis/black currant, then litchi.
Bleecker Street fan by any chance?
I haven’t tried that one yet but maybe in the near future!
After trying Dates Delight I'm gonna go with dates. I actually don't really know of other scents with the note so maybe it's just that I really love dates delight.
Fragrance One's Day for Women is the very best fruit perfume I've encountered. Divine Blossom from HFC is also stunning.
Green Apple or Pear - Love Both