Pairing floral arrangements with perfume makes women love them even more
The choice of perfume
should match the style and temperament of the floral product
Many flower shops display products that pair fresh flowers or preserved flowers with perfume for sale. However, when floral designers put them together, perhaps they are not quite clear whether this perfume matches the style of the floral product and the customer's preferences. Today let's talk about how to make the choice when pairing. If you don't know much about perfume, and the customer wants you to offer suggestions, you might refer to the list below.
It should be noted that perfume is an extremely personal choice, and the list in this article also carries personal preferences. If I happen to offend a brand you like, please be magnanimous and forgive the author's shallowness and ignorance.
First, a brief explanation of perfume classifications
1. parfum
2. eau de parfum (EDP)
3. eau de toilette (EDT)
4. eau de cologne (EDC)
5. body spray
Their concentration becomes lighter from top to bottom. Generally speaking, the lighter EDT and EDC are more suitable for summer. But some EDPs are not too heavy and can also be chosen.
Next, let's make a very imprecise classification in terms of style.
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Sweet type
Basically refers to perfumes with floral notes and fruity-floral notes, which are also scent types that most women can accept, with a wide range of use.
Gentle and soft, not aggressive. Suitable for pairing with pink-toned flowers or other soft color schemes.
Examples:
Jo malone English Pear & Freesia: Actually, the biggest reason to recommend JM is that the box design is really beautiful... placing it together with flowers especially raises the classiness.
Chanel Chance Eau Tendre: Sweet, with a somewhat heavy powdery note.
Marc Jacobs Daisy: Fresh and sweet, not cloying. The scent is not outstanding, but it counts as pleasant. Suitable for young girls.
Burberry Brit Sheer: Also very suitable for young girls.
Chloe Eau de Parfum: Sweet, suitable for young girls.
Guerlain Aqua Allegoria Pera Granita: Has a kind of fresh sweetness of early summer.
L'occitane Verbena: Very fresh, with a strong scent of lemon and fruit hard candy, a very pleasant smell. But the lasting power is short. It feels more suitable as an indoor fragrance.
Re classified Drunken Peony: A domestic perfume brand, quite a pleasant surprise. This scent has a fairly high fidelity to peony, natural, with a thin powdery note.
Givenchy Garden of Mist: Fresh and sweet, not sticky or greasy, lightly just right. Personally I think it is the most comfortable and most gentle floral scent. The only shortcoming is that the bottle design is not very thoughtful.
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Rose
Why single out rose?
Because it feels a bit inappropriate to put it in other categories, it is neither sweet nor fresh, but stands in a class of its own. Suitable for mature women with character.
Examples:
Jo malone Red Roses: A bit showy, a bit worldly.
Serge Lutens Rose Majesty: This one is actually an EDP, with a relatively high concentration. But Serge Lutens was never about the fresh-and-light style; it is grand, heavy, and charming.
Byredo Desert Rose: The top notes give a very high-end feeling, independent, open and empty, while the middle and base notes lean a bit sweet. The bottle and box design take a minimalist cool style.
Frederic malle Une Rose: The top notes are a bit like Jo malone Red Roses, but lighter. After the woody scent comes out in the base notes it is very charming, elegant, and refined.
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Fresh and clean type
With citrus notes as the main force, it makes people think of summer as soon as they smell it, and it is a scent type that basically neither men nor women dislike.
Suitable for a clean and refreshing floral style.
Examples:
Atelier Cologne Pomelo Paradis: A very fresh grapefruit scent, it feels like cutting open a fresh, plump, juicy pomelo right in front of you. The bottle is also very artistic.
Atelier Cologne Orange Sanguine: A fresh orange scent, with a bit of the bitterness of orange peel. It is a scent that can make people happy all at once.
Bvlgari Darjeeling Tea: Woody floral notes, refreshing, clean, suitable for men. Also very distinctive when worn by women.
Clean Rain: A brand suitable for young people. Fresh and clean, with a bit of dampness. The lasting power is short, almost the length of one heavy rain. Quite interesting.
Clean Cool Cotton: The scent of body wash left on you after a shower, dry and comfortable. Suitable for sunny-feeling boys and girls.
Hermes Un Jardin Sur Le Nil: A scent that is sure to be mentioned when talking about citrus notes, light orange, slightly bitter grapefruit, fresh and pleasant.
Hermes Eau d'Orange Verte: A restrained light fragrance, with a trace of orange scent, suitable for men.
Guerlian Herba Fresca: It really is the scent of mint and green grass, refreshing and natural.
Acca kappa White Moss: Very fresh and elegant, with a hint of plant scent. Some also say it is the scent of first love.
Diptyque Tokyo Citrus: Bright, clean, and soft. A very unisex scent, suitable for both men and women.
Serge Lutens Nuit de Cellophane: The top notes are stunning, with a kind of bursting freshness. There is no osmanthus scent, but the atmosphere created is very clever, with a kind of surprise of suddenly smelling osmanthus in the dark night.
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Intellectual type
Those classified into this category are basically woody oriental notes or woody fougere notes. Not the usual sweet and fragrant kind, perhaps with a bit of spiciness, carrying a kind of settling and calmness after going through the world's affairs. Suitable for mature women with extremely good taste.
Atelier Cologne Oolang Infini: Elegant, steady, quiet. With a trace of indifference and a gaze that sees through everything.
Atelier Cologne Santal Carmin: A very special scent, with the aroma of wood wrapped in freshness, and a slightly spicy pepper note. The layers are very rich.
Serge Lutens Feminite du Bois: Spicy, not high in sweetness. Cold and charming, yet distant and steady. Suitable for women who are maverick and have a certain understanding of perfume; newcomers may feel it is the smell of safflower oil.
Acqua di parma Bergamotto: A woody lemon scent, neither sweet nor greasy, fresh and refined.
The above are choices I consider safe and unlikely to go wrong, for everyone's reference.
But not going wrong does not mean the customer will definitely like it; everyone's perception of scent is different. One person's honey is another person's poison.