Peppermint

Viktor & Rolf

Flowerbomb opens with a pale apricot softness from osmanthus, lightly lifted by bergamot, but the citrus fades quickly.

Davidoff

Cool Water opens with a bracing aquatic-herbal rush—lavender and mint collide like a splash of cold seawater, sharpened by rosemary's camphorous bite.

Elizabeth Arden

A crisp, transparent fragrance built around the astringency of green tea rather than the sweetness of white florals.

Creed

Green Irish Tweed opens with a bright, almost electric freshness—lemon verbena sharpness tempered by the cool powderiness of iris.

Creed

Viking opens with a bracing mint-and-citrus blast that feels like cold air off a Nordic fjord.

Paco Rabanne

The opening is a sharp blast of peppermint, cool and almost medicinal, like sucking on a strong lozenge.

Hermès

Sharp bergamot and cold-pressed orange peel open this — the kind that leaves white residue on your fingers.

Guerlain

Peppermint, rum, and lime arrive together in a combination that shouldn't work but does — cool mint and hot rum alongside the sharp citrus of lime, suggesting a mojito before it goes anywhere else.

Mugler

Kryptomint takes the A*Men format and inverts it: mint and sage open with an aggressive cool-herbal blast — fresh, almost medical in intensity — before surrendering entirely to A*Men's signature gourmand base.

Creed

Royal Water is one of Creed's most distinctive and challenging masculines.

Giorgio Armani

Armani Code Sport opens with a surge of mint and peppermint that feels immediate and unadorned—cold, almost medicinal, then quickly softened by a pulse of ginger.

Amouage

Enclave opens with an unexpected jolt of peppermint alongside cinnamon and cardamom — the cool menthol sharpens the spice rather than softening it, producing an opening that's vivid and slightly disorienting.

Frédéric Malle

The geranium here is more herbal workshop than garden—sharp mint and medicinal anise cut through any softness, giving the opening an almost camphoraceous chill.

Lush

**Dirty** opens with a jolt of mint so sharp it nearly stings, backed by green herbs that smell like crushing fresh tarragon and thyme between your fingers.

Louis Vuitton

Pacific Chill opens with a shock of peppermint clarity—bracing, almost medicinal in its intensity—before orange and blackcurrant soften the edges into something between a beach-town juice bar and a herb garden at dawn.

Tom Ford

Italian Cypress opens with a sharp green jolt—galbanum and mint collide in a way that feels more medicinal than refreshing, as if stepping into a cool stone chapel.

Mugler

The opening strikes with mint-bright lavender and peppermint, an herbal blast that feels both barbershop-clean and oddly aggressive.

Yves Saint Laurent

Y Eau Fraîche opens with a brisk lemon-ginger pairing that feels more functional than expressive—clean citrus cut with the faintest peppery warmth.

Jo Malone London

A sharp citrus bite opens this—real grapefruit pith, not sweetened juice—cut with mint that feels almost medicinal in its clarity.

Chopard

Lemon Dulci opens with a flash of candied citrus—bright lemon peel and bergamot lifted by ginger's warm bite.

Lalique

The opening arrives cool and almost medicinal—peppermint and bergamot flash bright before fig leaf adds a bitter green snap.

Jo Malone London

The opening is a jolt of cool mint, almost medicinal in its clarity, tempered by cardamom's warmth and a whisper of bergamot.

Ralph Lauren

A blast of cold melon and peppermint announces itself immediately, sharp and aquatic in the way late-nineties sport fragrances loved to be.

Guerlain

A jolt of iced mint and lime announces itself immediately, sharpened by rum's boozy sweetness and grapefruit's bitter edge.

Nautica

Nautica Voyage N-83 is a flanker of the house's iconic aquatic, trading the original's ozonic marine headspace for a crisper, more herbaceous stance.

Bath & Body Works

Twisted Peppermint opens with a rush of cool peppermint that's immediately recognizable—sharp, clean, and distinctly candy-like.

L'Artisan Parfumeur

Summer's fleeting pleasures arrive in a crisp burst of mint and citrus, a deliberate contrast to the heavy florals that dominated the mid-nineties.

Dolce & Gabbana

The opening is a bright citrus jolt—bergamot and petitgrain—that quickly gives way to an unexpected green coolness.

Etro

Orange and bergamot open with a warm, rounded citrus — the orange providing sweetness, the bergamot adding lift.

Givenchy

Gentleman Society Extrême is built around an iced coffee accord — and Karine Dubreuil-Sereni makes the concept work through genuine contrast rather than novelty.

Lorenzo Villoresi

Piper Nigrum opens in a medicinal, aromatic rush — mint, peppermint, fennel, and star anise combining into a challenging herbal-anise accord that reads almost apothecary in its directness.

Diptyque

Diptyque's founding fragrance, created in 1968 by artist Desmond Knox-Leet, was inspired by an old English recipe combining rose, geranium, and cloves.

Dolce & Gabbana

Natalie Gracia-Cetto and Nisrine Bouazzaoui Grillié's addition to the Dolce line places pink lily at the center of a careful construction.

Lacoste Fragrances

Booster opens as its name implies: an energetic burst of peppermint and eucalyptus alongside orange and grapefruit, producing the cold-water freshness that defined sport fragrances of the mid-1990s.

Aéropostale

Lime and lemon hit first with a sharp, almost soapy citrus brightness — clean, simple, and brief.

Mercedes-Benz

Opens with a tart, jammy black currant against bergamot — the cassis already pushing toward a faintly sulphurous, fruity-green sparkle that's a touch metallic in the best way.

Issey Miyake

Fusion d'Issey Extrême takes the original's elemental premise and dials the warmth up.

Ted Lapidus

Orange blossom opens with a honeyed, slightly indolic sweetness, the white-floral edge already leaning warm rather than fresh.

O Boticário

Dimitri opens with cassis and mandarin — dark fruit sharpened by citrus sweetness — with a subtle rose adding a brief floral note before the composition moves on.

M. Micallef

Gn Tonic opens with the direct sensory impression of gin itself — lime and bitter orange over a herbal-mint base, ginger sharpening the citrus while pink pepper adds texture.

Bath & Body Works

Coffee & Whiskey leans entirely into a single premise: the warm, comforting intersection of dark roast and aged spirits.

Franck Olivier

Pineapple and peppermint hit first, an unusual pairing that reads as cool and sugary at the same time.

Enrico Coveri

Bergamot opens with a brief citrus shimmer before lavender and peppermint take over the heart, the mint adding an icy fresh lift to the lavender's herbal cleanness.

Azzaro

Solarissimo Levanzo opens on a sharp peppermint strike that disperses quickly, transitioning into a herbal-spice heart of lavender, basil, ginger, and cardamom — a Mediterranean kitchen-garden pressed into perfume.

Roos&Roos

Petitgrain and bergamot open with a bright herbal-citrus character before mint takes over — sharp, almost meditative, the kind of mint that smells like a sprig in cold water rather than candy.

Ralph Lauren

Polo Earth opens in a wash of cool green — petitgrain and peppermint over neroli — that reads outdoorsy without being aggressively herbal.

The Different Company

A herbal cologne with a kitchen-garden brightness.

Adidas

Moves is the most ambitious entry in adidas's late-90s catalogue, and the only one that asks to be read as a proper composition.

Clash

A bracing herbal-citrus opening — peppermint, lime, bergamot, with a slap of green galbanum.

Emper

Basil, lemon, galbanum, and bergamot open in classic green-chypre fashion: bracing, herbaceous, with galbanum's resinous bitterness setting the tone.

Nautica

Nautica Voyage Heritage opens with a bright herbal rush—mint and rosemary together create an immediate aromatic clarity that feels more Mediterranean garden than maritime.

Aaron Terence Hughes

The opening throws a wide net: apple, neroli, peppermint and a citrus stack of orange, lemon and bergamot all arrive together, producing a bright cologne-like wash with a cool minty edge.

Goutal

Mint and a thin, sour citron lift open the bottle, but the pull is downward — into pine resin and the cool dry air of a fir grove after dusk.

Sisley

Mint and peppermint open with an almost startlingly cool intensity — the kind of opening that reads more spa than perfume.

Roger & Gallet

An uncommonly busy rose that opens on pink pepper and bergamot tilted slightly minty, with a green basil edge that keeps the brightness from going sweet.

Ferrari

Ferrari Essence Musk opens with a cool herbal clarity, mint and lavender meeting in an aromatic wave that feels both barbershop-classic and cleanly modern.

Jaguar

Cool peppermint and basil snap open the top, an icy aromatic charge crossed with mandarin sparkle.

Hugo Boss

Boss Bottled United carries its UEFA Champions League partnership in its DNA — a stadium-fresh, sporty construction built around blood orange and a dual-mint heart that smells unambiguously like the clean side of athletic luxury.

Elizabeth Arden

An emphatic citrus opening — orange, lemon, bergamot stacked into a single bright chord — gives way fast to a startling herbal twist of mint, peppermint, and fennel.

Viktor & Rolf

Black pepper, clove, and cardamom open in a tightly packed spice burst, lemon and grapefruit adding a sharp citrus edge that prevents the top from feeling too dense.

Bvlgari

Jacques Cavallier Belletrud's 2011 take on the Aqva line opens with a sting of peppermint and lemon over a sliver of green mint — almost toothpaste-bright at first whiff — before the signature Posidonia seaweed accord kicks in to drag it back toward salt and ozone.

Oriza L. Legrand

A herbal opening of peppermint and thyme cuts cleanly, more like a crushed leaf than a candy, and gives way quickly to the heart.

Ferrari

The opening is citrus-forward with grapefruit, bergamot, and lime, sharpened by ginger and cooled by mint.

L'Occitane au Brésil

The composition opens on a single bold gesture: peppermint, cool and almost icy, with a green-herbal lift that reads more crushed leaf than candy.

Kenzo

Kenzo Homme Sport Extreme takes the sport masculine genre to a temperature extreme — the opening is icy peppermint with black pepper adding bite rather than warmth, lemon cutting any remaining sweetness.

Tous

Orange blossom and grapefruit open with a soft, slightly bitter citrus-floral — neroli-adjacent territory but pulled brighter by the grapefruit's tart edge.

Floris

A long, layered aromatic that opens cold and herbal — black pepper and peppermint sit on grapefruit, lemon and bergamot, with galbanum's resinous green giving the top a sharper edge than most British cologne updates manage.

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Dusita

Peppermint leads with a clean, slightly medicinal coolness that dissipates faster than expected, revealing a greener, more textured heart.

L'Artisan Parfumeur

L'Été en Douce — sometimes still labeled Extrait de Songe — is Olivia Giacobetti's coolest work: peppermint, rose, orange blossom and white musk, and almost nothing else.

Les Parfums De Rosine

Mint and peppermint hit first, sharp enough to read as a cocktail glass before it reads as a fragrance — a rose mojito, by design.

Fugazzi

Fugazzi Parfum 1 opens with peppermint and black currant — an unusual pairing that reads as simultaneously cooling and dark-fruity.

Creed

Neroli lifts the opening with a brief orange-blossom brightness before the peppermint and mint take full control — cool, clean, and unapologetically herbal.

La Rive

Cash for Man opens cool and almost medicinal — peppermint sharpened by grapefruit — for a brief, bracing top that doesn't last.

Brocard / Брокард

Strawberry hits first — bright, slightly fizzy — with lime and lemon sharpening it so the fruit doesn't read as candy.

Yves Rocher

An unusual Yves Rocher release from 2002 — a fresh aromatic built around mint and rosemary with a vanilla-amber base that tilts the composition warmer than the opening predicts.

John Varvatos

Mint and peppermint hit immediately — cool, sharp, and slightly medicinal — with pink pepper adding a dry, sneezy bite and lemon lending a brief citric flash that fades within minutes.

Lolita Lempicka

Peppermint and mandarin open together — the mint is sharp and cool while the mandarin provides a slightly sweet citrus lift.

Zara

Before the numbered Classics line standardized into a more masculine direction, the 8.0 entry from 2015 reads as a light unisex aquatic.

Adidas

Team Five reads as a fougère stripped to its uniform: lemon and basil up top, a wash of mint, sage and lavender through the heart, and a quiet benzoin–amber base.

Aaron Terence Hughes

Lime, lemon, and bergamot open with a clean, transparent citrus burst that reads bright and slightly tart.

Viktor & Rolf

Pink pepper opens with a quick snap, then sage and peppermint take over within the first minute.

Jacques Bogart

Peppermint and cardamom open together, creating a cool-spiced impression — sharp and slightly herbal, with the mint adding a clean edge that prevents the cardamom from reading as purely culinary.

The Different Company

Grapefruit opens with a tart, zesty brightness that fades quickly into something greener and cooler.

Corday

Grapefruit opens this aftershave lotion with a clean, slightly bitter citrus note — predictable for the format but effective.

Police

Mint and peppermint open with a sharp, icy clarity, lifted further by blood orange's bitter-sweet citrus.

Fragrance Du Bois

London Spice opens with a bright citrus burst — bergamot and lemon sharpened by peppermint — that clears quickly to reveal a herbal core.

Van Cleef & Arpels

Mint, pink pepper and bergamot open with a cool, slightly fizzy brightness.

Floraïku

Mint opens cool and slightly herbal, a green snap that cuts through with the sharpness of crushed leaves rather than candy.

Yves Saint Laurent

Heeley

Peppermint slashes open with icy clarity, its menthol camphor racing ahead of everything.

Goutal

Peppermint slashes through the first minutes, cold and leafy, pushing orange forward so the citrus reads as bitter zest rather than juice.

Giorgio Valenti

Blood orange and grapefruit spearhead a chilled, slightly bitter citrus accord sharpened by peppermint, while apple lends a crisp, green facet that prevents the opening from turning candied.

Franck Boclet

Mint, basil, and peppermint deliver a sharp, green-aromatic opening that is fresh and slightly medicinal upon first application.

Mercedes-Benz

Bergamot opens with a crisp, citrusy freshness that is immediately bright and uplifting.

Davidoff

Mint and peppermint deliver an immediate cooling freshness, sharpened by rosemary's aromatic herbal edge.

Roos&Roos

Violet leaf and galbanum create a sharp green opening that is crisp and slightly metallic.

Kenzo

Basil and peppermint open with sharp green herbality and cool minty freshness, creating an invigorating aromatic start.

Dries Van Noten

Mint opens with a sharp, cooling green freshness that immediately establishes a crisp and modern aromatic character.

Masakï Matsushïma

Black currant delivers a tart, slightly green snap that the orange and lemon brighten into a sparkling, almost effervescent opening.

Toni Gard

Peppermint snaps open with a frosty green edge that cools the immediate citrus burst of orange and lemon, keeping the composition crisp rather than candied.

Mugler

Lavender opens cool and camphrous, shot through peppermint that slices the herbal edge with crystalline menthol while bergamot flashes a brief metallic citrus glare.

Viktor & Rolf

Ginger slices through a bright citrus cloud of lemon and grapefruit, its hot-sweet sting sharpening the opening.

Gatsby / ギャツビー

Ginger snaps open with a bright, peppery effervescence that the lemon quickly steers toward sparkling iced tea.

Yves Saint Laurent

Dominique Ropion's 2020 Eau Fraîche flanker pulls the Y framework into icier territory.

Giorgio Armani

Armani Code Sport Edition 2016 opens cold — mint and peppermint together, sharp and almost toothpaste-bright in the first minutes.

Bourjois

Peppermint dominates the opening with a cooling, almost frosted-leaf snap that immediately sets a green aromatic tone.

Jaguar

Mint and citrus create a brisk, aromatic opening that feels fresh and slightly herbal.

Conde Parfum

Lime and bergamot deliver a sharp, zesty citrus burst that feels invigorating and slightly tart.

O Boticário

Coffee Man Sense opens with a cool, almost mentholated top — mint and lavender layered over bergamot — that reads aromatic-fresh rather than gourmand.

Agonist

Rosemary and peppermint open with a sharp aromatic freshness that carries a cool herbal lift.

Moresque

Lavender, peppermint, and pink pepper create an aromatic and fresh-spicy opening that is invigorating and slightly cooling on the skin.

Oriflame

Mint opens with a cool, leafy snap that instantly tilts the blend toward barbershop freshness.

Aaron Terence Hughes

Lavender meets peppermint in a chilled, almost mentholated opening that snaps the head awake while lemon keeps the tone bright rather than medicinal.

Roos&Roos

Eucalyptus snaps open with a medicinal chill that feels like crushed leaves under cold rain.

Diesel

Ginger grabs first, a fizzy heat that crackles against the icy spear of peppermint while yuzu squirts sharp, sherbet-like citrus across the top.

Milton-Lloyd

Peppermint slashes through first, its icy blade set against grapefruit’s bitter pith to create a frosty citrus edge that snaps the head back.

Chloé

Guerlain

Peppermint opens cool and camphoraceous, slicing through lemon’s tart brightness to create a brisk, almost medicinal chill that feels barbershop-fresh rather than dessert-sweet.

Burberry

Peppermint slashes open with a cold, metallic snap that quickly picks up cumin’s dry, sweaty spice, creating an aromatic tension that feels more industrial than fresh.