Note
Geranium
17 perfumes feature this note.
Jovoy
Psychédélique
2011Bergamot opens briefly — barely enough to register before the patchouli-amber-labdanum heart asserts itself with full confidence.
PatchouliAmberVanillaLabdanum7.90· 505Hermès
Terre d'Hermès Eau Intense Vétiver
2018Terre d'Hermès Eau Intense Vétiver is Christine Nagel's 2018 recentering of the Hermès earth trilogy around a single ingredient.
VetiverBlack PepperBergamotPatchouli7.50· 511Cerruti
pour Femme Cerruti 1995 Eau de Toilette
1995Cerruti 1881 pour Femme is an exercise in floral layering at a scale that was common in 1995 and is rare now.
JasmineRoseIrisAmber7.30· 510Penhaligon'S
The Omniscient Mr Thompson
2023Omniscient Mr Thompson opens with a soft billow of lavender and elemi resin — the kind of scent that conjures a well-lined library, papers stacked with purpose.
LavenderIrisVanillaIris Powder4.24· 514Penhaligon'S
The Omniscient Mr Thompson Penhaligon's
2023Omniscient Mr Thompson opens with a soft billow of lavender and elemi resin — the kind of scent that conjures a well-lined library, papers stacked with purpose.
LavenderIrisVanillaIris Powder4.24· 514Jesus del Pozo
Quasar
1994In 1994, Christopher Sheldrake — who would later become Chanel's exclusive perfumer — designed Quasar for the Spanish house Jesus del Pozo.
OakmossLavenderSandalwoodCedar4.09· 516Laurent Mazzone Parfums
Patchouli Boheme
2011Patchouli Bohème opens with a brief woody-green preface — geranium's slightly minty, rose-adjacent freshness alongside a general woodiness that signals this is not a sweet or floral composition.
PatchouliLeatherTobaccoTonka4.09· 458Les Liquides Imaginaires
Beaute du Diable
2019Louise Turner constructs Beauté du Diable around the eugenol molecule — the compound that links clove and carnation in their shared spicy warmth.
LabdanumVetiverBlack PepperOrange4.08· 481Antonio Puig
Aqua Quorum
1994Alberto Morillas, Harry Fremont, and Rosendo Mateu collaborate on Aqua Quorum, a 1994 aromatic fougère that handles the fresh-aquatic genre of its era with more formal structure than most contemporaries.
LavenderAmberOakmossLeather4.07· 475Jo Malone London
Orris & Sandalwood
2016Orris & Sandalwood begins with the unexpected sharpness of galbanum — a green, resinous note that immediately distinguishes this from the house's lighter output — softened by violet bloom.
IrisSandalwoodIris PowderAmber4.04· 504Widian
Liwa
2017Liwa — named for the vast oasis at the edge of Abu Dhabi's Empty Quarter — is one of Widian's most architecturally complex compositions.
IncenseSandalwoodOudRose4.03· 484Giorgio Armani
Emporio Armani Stronger With You Only
2022Stronger With You Only is the lightest and most casual entry in Armani's SWY franchise.
LavenderVanillaMuskLabdanum4.03· 475Armaf
Shades Wood
Rose, geranium, and citrus open with a dry floral-herbal freshness — the geranium medicinal and green, rose providing warmth, citrus adding lift before the transition to the heart makes its intentions clear.
OudSandalwoodCedarBlack Pepper3.92· 492Avon
Black Suede
1980Black Suede is a product of its era — a 1980 leather chypre built on the structural confidence of high-oakmoss architecture and a spice-and-leather core that asks full commitment of its wearer.
LeatherOakmossAmberVetiver3.87· 470Diptyque
L'Eau Eau de Toilette
1968Diptyque's founding fragrance, created in 1968 by artist Desmond Knox-Leet, was inspired by an old English recipe combining rose, geranium, and cloves.
CinnamonSandalwoodRoseAmber3.84· 497Lacoste Fragrances
Match Point
2020Sophie Labbé's Match Point opens with the clean sports-fragrance classic: grapefruit, pink pepper, and basil — the citrus providing snap, the pepper adding edge, and the basil grounding it with herbal greenness rather than kitchen associations.
VetiverGreenBlack PepperMusk3.56· 516Trump
Success
2011Against expectations, a genuinely well-constructed mainstream masculine.
MuskVetiverTonkaBlack Pepper3.01· 483