Note
Water Lily
57 perfumes feature this note.
Bvlgari
Omnia Coral
2012**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.
FruityFloralFresh SpicyAquatic4.0 / 5· 4,986Dolce & Gabbana
Dolce
2014The opening is a sunlit wash of neroli, bright and almost citric in its clarity, setting a tone that feels both Mediterranean and deliberately transparent.
Ozonic3.5 / 5· 4,801The Body Shop
British Rose
2016British Rose keeps its promise in the most straightforward way: bergamot and tangerine open with a cheerful, citrus freshness that sets a breezy tone.
RoseMuskyCitrusFresh4.0 / 5· 519Nicki Minaj
Onika
2014Onika 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.
MuskySweetFloralFresh4.2 / 5· 501Marc Jacobs
Mod Noir
2015Jean Claude Delville opens with green-citrus brightness: yuzu and clementine provide tart citrus clarity, green notes suggesting fresh leaves.
MuskyWhite FloralSweetAnimalic3.6 / 5· 498By Kilian
Water Calligraphy
2012Calice 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.
AquaticFreshWhite FloralAromatic3.8 / 5· 484Trussardi
Trussardi Jeans
2003A 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.
TuberoseMuskyVioletVanilla4.0 / 5· 483Yves Rocher
Ode a la Vie
2001Ode 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.
AquaticFloralFreshViolet4.1 / 5· 466Calvin Klein
Eternity Purple Orchid
2003Eternity Purple Orchid opens with a green, slightly watery freshness — water lily cutting through a faint fruitiness that suggests ripe plum without naming it directly.
FloralSweetAlmondFresh3.9 / 5· 428Amouage
Ciel Woman
2003Ciel 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.
RoseFloralAmberWoody3.9 / 5· 409The Body Shop
Oceanus
Oceanus opens on a single watery note — water lily — before expanding into a full aquatic floral heart.
FloralWhite FloralFreshAquatic4.1 / 5· 408Mexx
Mexx Black for Him
2009The opening is a bracing aquatic-pepper accord — mandarin orange clipped with black pepper over water notes.
AmberMarineOzonicPatchouli3.7 / 5· 397Calvin Klein
CK One Summer 2010
2010CK 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.
AquaticAromaticSweetFresh3.8 / 5· 386Elizabeth Arden
Green Tea Summer 2005
2005Green 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.
FloralAquaticFreshAromatic3.7 / 5· 385Victoria'S Secret
Victoria's Secret Angel Gold
2012The 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.
FloralAmberMuskyCitrus4.2 / 5· 368Victoria'S Secret
Dream Angels Divine
2000Dream Angels Divine belongs to a specific moment in early-2000s perfumery: sheer water-floral compositions that prioritised transparency over character.
MuskyAquaticPowderyFresh4.0 / 5· 337Victoria'S Secret
Sexy Little Things
2006Sexy Little Things opens with crisp apple and osmanthus — the latter contributing a buttery, faintly apricot quality — balanced against water lily's clean aquatic lift.
MuskyFreshAquaticWhite Floral4.1 / 5· 336Jo Malone
Dark Amber & Ginger Lily
2008Ginger and pink pepper open the composition with a fizzy-warm prickle, the spice immediately joined by a soft leather shadow.
LeatherSmokyWoodyAmber3.8 / 5· 287Mexx
MEXX Fresh Woman
2011A single-citrus opening — green mandarin — puts everything on one note for the first few minutes.
FloralAquaticFreshWoody3.5 / 5· 281Bath & Body Works
White Citrus Eau de Toilette
2009White Citrus EDT opens with a clean citrus splash — grapefruit, lemon, and tangerine bright and unremarkable, pleasant in the shower-clean register.
Amber3.9 / 5· 273DKNY / Donna Karan
DKNY Women (Energizing Eau de Parfum)
1999The opening is an arresting green-and-fruit collision, tomato leaf giving a cool, bitter sap edge against juicy orange and a soft apricot blush.
GreenFloralLeatherFresh3.6 / 5· 252Donna Karan
DKNY To Go Women
2007Tomato leaf and blood orange open with a sharp, vegetal bitterness that lands closer to a kitchen herb garden than a perfume counter.
GreenCitrusAromaticFloral3.7 / 5· 249Trussardi
Trussardi Donna Trussardi 2011 Eau de Parfum
2011Yuzu opens with a clean, slightly bitter citrus — sharper than lemon, more rind than juice.
VanillaPatchouliFloralCitrus3.8 / 5· 241Avon
Eve Duet Sensual
2017Eve 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.
ChocolateFloralPatchouliFruity3.7 / 5· 238Avon
Eve Duet Radiant
2017A bright, transparent feminine that stays light from first spray to dry-down.
MuskyWhite FloralFreshAquatic3.6 / 5· 234Natura
Flores Flutuantes
2019Flores Flutuantes captures an image specific to the Amazon: the flood season when forest blooms float on still, dark river water.
FloralAquaticFreshWoody4.1 / 5· 228Mexx
Black Man Mexx 2009 Eau de Toilette
2009The 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.
AmberMarineOzonicFresh3.1 / 5· 225Avon
Miami Party
2012Miami 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.
FreshTropicalFloralAmber3.5 / 5· 220Lanvin
Water Lily
2021Water Lily opens on pink grapefruit and pomegranate — a sharper, tart citrus paired with a faintly metallic fruit that reads as cool rather than sweet.
MarineFloralCitrusAquatic3.5 / 5· 213Avon
Surreal Ocean
2014Created 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.
MarineWhite FloralSweetFresh4.0 / 5· 2074160 Tuesdays
Crikey! Coconut Caramel
2010Coconut dominates the opening, delivering a creamy, sun-lotion richness that instantly reads tropical.
CoconutLactonicVanillaSweet3.8 / 5· 202Bath & Body Works
Tahiti Island Dream
2015A 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.
VanillaAmber4.2 / 5· 199Avon
Wish of Luck
Wish of Luck opens on a clean, tart cut of green apple and citrus that feels immediately fresh and transparent.
MuskyFruityFreshFloral3.8 / 5· 194Calvin Klein
Deep Euphoria Eau de Toilette
2017Deep Euphoria Eau de Toilette opens on water lily and pear — watery, translucent, and cool rather than sweet.
FloralRoseWoodyAquatic3.6 / 5· 193Avon
Pur Blanca Blossom
2010A fresh-floral feminine built around the late-2000s structure of pepper-sparked citrus over a clean white floral heart.
Soft SpicyFreshWhite FloralPowdery3.8 / 5· 192Avon
Pure
2017A minimal clean floral that leans into softness rather than structure.
FloralPowderyGreenFresh3.5 / 5· 191Jo Malone London
Lotus Blossom & Water Lily
2008Lotus Blossom & Water Lily opens with a citrus triad — grapefruit, bergamot, and mandarin — that's brighter and more layered than a typical Jo Malone opener.
FloralCitrusWoodyAquatic3.8 / 5· 185Jo Malone London
Waterlily Cologne
2020Waterlily Cologne is an exercise in restraint.
FloralWhite FloralAquaticFresh3.8 / 5· 177Victoria'S Secret
Body by Victoria 2012
2012Body 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.
IrisAmber4.1 / 5· 164Bath & Body Works
Enchanted Orchid
2008Enchanted 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.
IrisVanillaAmberCherry4.1 / 5· 164Avon
Simple Elements Perfect Cotton
Simple Elements Perfect Cotton is a clean-air fragrance built around cotton flower as the central note.
FloralPowderyAquaticFresh3.7 / 5· 164Victoria'S Secret
Love Is Heavenly 2016
2016Love 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.
4.3 / 5· 163Jo Malone
Orange Blossom Jo Malone 2003 Cologne
2003Orange blossom dominates, releasing a clean, soapy white-petal breeze that feels freshly picked.
White FloralFloralCitrusFresh3.7 / 5· 154Jo Malone London
London Rain Wisteria Violet
2014Christine 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.
PatchouliOzonicIrisHoney3.9 / 5· 142Avon
Toque de Amor
1960Toque 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.
AldehydicFreshEarthyIris3.8 / 5· 140Jo Malone London
Wild Achillea 2023
2023Bergamot opens bright and slightly bitter, with nettle adding a stinging green prickle that no other citrus pairing offers.
AromaticGreenCitrusFloral4.2 / 5· 118Bath & Body Works
Magic In The Air
2016Magic In The Air opens with a distinctive pairing: persimmon's autumnal sweetness alongside the cool, watery clarity of water lily and white iris.
WoodyFloralSweetVanilla4.0 / 5· 113Bath & Body Works
White Citrus
2009White Citrus leads with a familiar trio of sunlit fruits — sharp Amalfi lemon, slightly bitter grapefruit, and the gentler sweetness of tangerine.
CitrusFreshWarm SpicyFresh Spicy4.0 / 5· 72Le Chameau
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