Water Lily

Bvlgari

**Omnia Coral** opens with a bright bergamot lift that quickly gives way to its central character: a juicy, slightly tart pomegranate accord that dominates the heart.

Dolce & Gabbana

The opening is a sunlit wash of neroli, bright and almost citric in its clarity, setting a tone that feels both Mediterranean and deliberately transparent.

The Body Shop

British Rose keeps its promise in the most straightforward way: bergamot and tangerine open with a cheerful, citrus freshness that sets a breezy tone.

Nicki Minaj

Onika opens with a bright, slightly tropical fruit cocktail — carambola's watery crunch alongside pear and mandarin, a combination that reads as playful rather than serious.

Marc Jacobs

Jean Claude Delville opens with green-citrus brightness: yuzu and clementine provide tart citrus clarity, green notes suggesting fresh leaves.

By Kilian

Calice Becker interprets Chinese ink painting in olfactory terms: water lily and grapefruit at the top, pure and cool, give way to magnolia and jasmine — white florals that register as brushstrokes rather than bouquets, precise and weightless.

Trussardi

A quintessential early-2000s aquatic-floral built around a triumvirate of white flowers: tuberose anchors the heart with characteristic creaminess, lily lightens the accord, and freesia adds a fruity-fresh lift.

Yves Rocher

Ode à la Vie opens with water and green in conjunction: galbanum's sharp, leafy edge is softened by bamboo's clean neutrality, while water notes give the whole opening a cool, almost misted quality.

Calvin Klein

Eternity Purple Orchid opens with a green, slightly watery freshness — water lily cutting through a faint fruitiness that suggests ripe plum without naming it directly.

Amouage

Ciel Woman opens with wet floral freshness — cyclamen, gardenia, and violet leaf together have the slightly watery, stem-snapped quality of flowers pulled straight from a vase.

The Body Shop

Oceanus opens on a single watery note — water lily — before expanding into a full aquatic floral heart.

Mexx

The opening is a bracing aquatic-pepper accord — mandarin orange clipped with black pepper over water notes.

Calvin Klein

CK One Summer 2010 opens with a burst of Amalfi lemon and watermelon that reads as sun-warmed and slightly tart — a citrus blast cut with the soft green of pear.

Elizabeth Arden

Green Tea Summer opens with a citrus splash — lemon, mandarin, and the slightly jammy tartness of black currant — that reads more as a prelude than a statement.

Victoria'S Secret

The 2012 Angel Gold opens with a trio of fruit and citrus: pear contributes a soft sweetness, orange adds brightness, bergamot grounds both with light aromatic lift.

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.

Jo Malone

Ginger and pink pepper open the composition with a fizzy-warm prickle, the spice immediately joined by a soft leather shadow.

Mexx

A single-citrus opening — green mandarin — puts everything on one note for the first few minutes.

Bath & Body Works

White Citrus EDT opens with a clean citrus splash — grapefruit, lemon, and tangerine bright and unremarkable, pleasant in the shower-clean register.

DKNY / Donna Karan

The opening is an arresting green-and-fruit collision, tomato leaf giving a cool, bitter sap edge against juicy orange and a soft apricot blush.

Donna Karan

Tomato leaf and blood orange open with a sharp, vegetal bitterness that lands closer to a kitchen herb garden than a perfume counter.

Trussardi

Yuzu opens with a clean, slightly bitter citrus — sharper than lemon, more rind than juice.

Avon

Eve Duet Sensual opens on a spiced plum accord — pink pepper adds warmth and heat to the fruit, keeping the opening from reading as purely sweet.

Avon

A bright, transparent feminine that stays light from first spray to dry-down.

Natura

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

Mexx

The eau de toilette concentration of Mexx Black for Him reads a touch lighter and more transparent than the standard release, but the structure is the same.

Avon

Miami Party opens on a juicy tropical salvo — blood orange and kumquat cutting bright and tart, with pitahaya adding an exotic, slightly vegetal sweetness that announces the fragrance's intentions up front.

Lanvin

Water Lily opens on pink grapefruit and pomegranate — a sharper, tart citrus paired with a faintly metallic fruit that reads as cool rather than sweet.

Avon

Created by Honorine Blanc, Surreal Ocean opens on an aquatic chord that calone-adjacent chemistry renders recognizable — the coral reef note is synthetic ozone laced with mandarin, while soursop adds a tropical acidity that keeps the opening from reading as generic blue.

4160 Tuesdays

Coconut dominates the opening, delivering a creamy, sun-lotion richness that instantly reads tropical.

Bath & Body Works

A daydream in a spray bottle — coconut nectar and pear open with the kind of sweetness that reads as sun-warmed vacation skin rather than fruit candy, brightened by mandarin and a delicate kiwi flower accord.

Avon

Wish of Luck opens on a clean, tart cut of green apple and citrus that feels immediately fresh and transparent.

Calvin Klein

Deep Euphoria Eau de Toilette opens on water lily and pear — watery, translucent, and cool rather than sweet.

Avon

A fresh-floral feminine built around the late-2000s structure of pepper-sparked citrus over a clean white floral heart.

Avon

A minimal clean floral that leans into softness rather than structure.

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.

Jo Malone London

Waterlily Cologne is an exercise in restraint.

Victoria'S Secret

Body by Victoria 2012 opens watery and a little candied — mandarin and raspberry leaf giving the top a green-edged sweetness, a fuzz of peach and water lily floating just under it.

Bath & Body Works

Enchanted Orchid begins as a light aquatic-fruity — water lily and pink grapefruit giving the opening a fresh, slightly tart quality, with apple providing sweetness to smooth the edges.

Avon

Simple Elements Perfect Cotton is a clean-air fragrance built around cotton flower as the central note.

Victoria'S Secret

Love Is Heavenly opens cool and a little dewy — mandarin blossom over crushed blackberry and a slip of kiwi, the kind of top accord meant to read as just-rained garden rather than juice.

Jo Malone

Orange blossom dominates, releasing a clean, soapy white-petal breeze that feels freshly picked.

Jo Malone London

Christine Nagel's London Rain entry takes the most literal route in the collection: water lily opens with a clean, faintly aquatic green that reads as wet stone and pond surface rather than ocean.

Avon

Toque de Amor, introduced in 1960, opens with the waxy effervescence of aldehydes lifted by bergamot, lemon, and a dewy water lily note — a classic mid-century feminine opening that reads as soapy brightness rather than heavy floral.

Jo Malone London

Bergamot opens bright and slightly bitter, with nettle adding a stinging green prickle that no other citrus pairing offers.

Bath & Body Works

Magic In The Air opens with a distinctive pairing: persimmon's autumnal sweetness alongside the cool, watery clarity of water lily and white iris.

Bath & Body Works

White Citrus leads with a familiar trio of sunlit fruits — sharp Amalfi lemon, slightly bitter grapefruit, and the gentler sweetness of tangerine.

Le Chameau

Red Deer Grove

Deconstructing Eden

Ahuhu

Red Deer Grove

Etnia

Red Deer Grove