Choosing Perfume: Age, Style, Personality & Olfactory Notes
Beyond choosing by gender, season, or for a specific occasion, you might be led to choose a perfume based on other more intimate criteria such as age, look, or personality. Here are our tips to ensure you don’t make a mistake when selecting your signature scent.
1. Choosing a Perfume Based on Age
Perfume echoes your personality, so it is necessary to evolve it at the same pace as you do. Adapting your perfume according to age allows you to follow your lifestyle, your diet, as well as the biological evolution of your skin’s scent.
The choice is determined by:
- Education: The olfactory awakening received from parents.
- Olfactory Heritage: Your natural sensitivity (visual, auditory, or olfactory).
- Experience: Travels and culinary discoveries that enrich your palette.
From adolescence to maturity, each stage has its olfactory codes. To discover which perfume corresponds to your decade, consult our complete guide: Which perfume to choose according to age?
2. Choosing a Perfume by Olfactory Notes
A discerning, knowledgeable, and curious customer will be able to choose their fragrance based on their favorite ingredients. This is the most precise method for enthusiasts.
You can orient your search towards dominant facets:
- Solar notes (see Solar facet)
- Aromatic notes (see Aromatic facet)
- Spicy notes (see Spicy facet)
- Musky notes (see Musky facet)
- Leather notes (see Leather facet)
To learn how to decipher olfactory families, read: How to choose a perfume by notes?
3. Choosing a Perfume Based on Personality
This classification, the result of long observation, allows defining the correspondences between perfume and all the constituent elements of your character (voice, culinary tastes, fabrics, environment).
We have identified 4 major profiles:
- Freshness: Sparkling and spontaneous.
- Air: Gentle and artistic.
- Earth: Calm and authentic.
- Fire: Charismatic and audacious.
Take the test to discover your element: Which perfume to choose according to personality?
4. Choosing a Perfume Based on Look
Fashion and perfume echo each other. Paul Poiret said: “My perfumes will do for your soul what my dresses have done for your body.” Your sillage is the invisible accessory that completes your outfit.
- Day / Work Look: Prioritize light perfumes (Eau de Toilette, Eau Fraîche) that do not disturb those around you.
- Evening / Sophisticated Look: Opt for a more marked, diffusive, and tenacious fragrance (Eau de Parfum, Extrait).
Whether you are Bohemian style, Preppy, Sporty, or Sexy, find the perfect accord in our article: Which perfume for which clothing style?
