Green Notes

Bvlgari

Jasmin Noir begins against type: the opening gardenia and green notes read clean and almost watery, a deliberate misdirection before jasmine takes command.

Sospiro Perfumes

"Laylati" — my nights in Arabic — signals the register immediately: Sospiro's Afghan-inspired oriental is nocturnal, dark, and designed for wear in concentrated doses.

Jacques Fath

Cécile Zarokian maps the Caribbean from altitude: the opening is a rush of petitgrain, orange, tangerine, lemon, and green notes — not so much a citrus accord as a citrus landscape.

Zoologist Perfumes

Beaver Edition 2016 takes a counterintuitive approach to its subject: rather than leaning into castoreum's animalic character, Chris Bartlett opens the composition with the beaver's environment — ozonic, green, the cool breath off river water.

Dior

Dioriviera is Francis Kurkdjian's fragrance-as-postcard: a Mediterranean scene rendered in three notes.

Jovoy Paris

Marc Fanton d'Andon sets the Garden of Eden's defining fruit at the center of a deliberately spare composition.