Lotus

Avon

Bergamot and freesia open brightly, with pepper adding an unexpected edge that gives this formula more character than the name alone suggests.

Salvatore Ferragamo

Incanto Bliss earns its name in the opening: yuzu, kumquat, and apple arrive with genuine brightness and a slight effervescence, as if the fragrance is laughing.

Lacoste Fragrances

Dream of Pink opens with red berries and a faint tea note — the berries providing sweetness and the tea an unexpected cool astringency that keeps the opening from reading as pure candy.

The 7 Virtues

Pear leads in two registers — juicy and slightly waxy — alongside peach and mandarin for a soft, ripe fruity opening that reads almost dewy.

Elizabeth Arden

My Fifth Avenue opens with violet leaf and a spray of citrus — lemon, mandarin — cut through by an ozonic freshness that feels deliberately urban, as if the composition wants to smell of air conditioning and steel.

Bvlgari

Jasmin Noir Eau de Toilette takes the richer EDP formula and opens it up with gardenia, lotus, and green notes—a lighter, airier interpretation of the house's signature.

Gucci

A limited-edition summer departure from the Flora line, this opens with watermelon's watery sweetness alongside ripe pear and sharp lemon — more fruit salad than perfume counter, in the best way.

Victoria'S Secret

Dream Angels Divine belongs to a specific moment in early-2000s perfumery: sheer water-floral compositions that prioritised transparency over character.

Victoria'S Secret

Sexy Little Things opens with crisp apple and osmanthus — the latter contributing a buttery, faintly apricot quality — balanced against water lily's clean aquatic lift.

Kenzo

Pink grapefruit opens with a bittersweet citrus edge — more tart than juicy, the kind of brightness that cuts through warm air.

Montale

Mint and sage open with garden-herb freshness that reads clean, if slightly utilitarian.

Caron

Délire de Roses opens with lychee — that perfume-specific fruit that smells faintly of rose wine and cool water — before the heart arrives as a coordinated rose statement.

Agent Provocateur

The opening is a creamy ylang lift, yellow-floral and slightly tropical, with a quick fruity glow that gives the first minutes warmth without sweetness overload.

Mexx

A pomegranate top opens bright but not tart — the fruit is flattened toward sweetness, with the suggestion of juice rather than rind.

Natura

Flores Flutuantes captures an image specific to the Amazon: the flood season when forest blooms float on still, dark river water.

Issey Miyake

Watery notes pool in the opening alongside lotus, the flower presented as cool and mineral rather than sweet — more a floating leaf than a blooming pond.

Calvin Klein

Eternity Summer 2011 opens with lily of the valley, violet, and a quiet coriander note — the coriander barely registers but adds a faint green-spice undercurrent that keeps the opening from feeling purely decorative.

Al Haramain Perfumes

Sparse by construction — ylang-ylang and bergamot at the top, then a hard pivot into incense and patchouli at the base with little in between to bridge them.

Davidoff

Mint, melon, and pineapple open it — sharp, watery, candy-fruit.

Jo Malone London

Lotus Blossom & Water Lily opens with a citrus triad — grapefruit, bergamot, and mandarin — that's brighter and more layered than a typical Jo Malone opener.

Mexx

A three-note skeleton — red apple, lotus, sandalwood — and the spareness is intentional rather than incomplete.

Avon

Today Tomorrow Always In Love opens with a lively accord of pomegranate, carambola (star fruit), lotus, and neroli — a combination that reads as bright, tropical-adjacent, and slightly aquatic.

Rasasi

Opens crisp and slightly tart — green apple over lemon, sharp enough to clear a room before the heart softens it.

Issey Miyake

Lotus opens cool and aqueous, more pond surface than flower bouquet, with osmanthus drifting in alongside its apricot-leather facet that gives the brightness a slightly indolic shadow.

Jul et Mad

Grapefruit bursts with a sharp citrus freshness that provides immediate brightness and energy.

Oscar De La Renta

An early-90s fruity-floral oriental that opens with melon and osmanthus alongside freesia and mimosa — a slightly powdery, slightly aquatic top that signals the era without being a period piece.

Avon

Lotus opens cool and watery — the quintessential aquatic-floral note, faintly green, faintly powdery.

Zara

Accord No 1 Floral is the first in Zara's 2017 Accord quartet — a series of more considered, deliberately compositional florals than the typical fashion-house fare.

La Rive

nebiru-parfvms

Vivian Gray

Eric Buterbaugh Florals

Ex Voto

Mayfair

Deconstructing Eden

Nicole Miller

Lothantique

Dans un Jardin

Red Deer Grove

Sirykid

Anna Zworykina

Wild Perfume

Aroma Essence

Urban Rituelle

Sifr Aromatics