Find your perfume

Which perfume suits me? The search for the perfect perfume is like a personal trip that should take into account your personality – including your individual preferences and needs. But how do you find the one perfume that truly fits you? And what should you pay attention to if you don't feel at home in the perfume game yet? In this perfume guide, we will explore the basics of perfume selection with you and help you start this so-called 'scent journey' to make it a successful trip.

Before you dive into this niche perfume world, you should understand the basics. From the fragrance notes of the fragrance pyramid – top, heart, and base notes – to the various fragrance families, it is important to have an overview. You should also understand the difference between Eau de Toilette and Eau de Parfum to make the right choice (here you will find all the relevant information about the differences).

Your personal style, your personal preferences, and your lifestyle play a crucial role when you want to find the right perfume.
It is important to recognize this and identify your fragrance preferences accordingly. Should they represent something playful or clear/angular? Should the scent be immediately noticeable, heavy, and have a strong sillage (scent trail), or do you want to reveal something as intimate as your own scent only when someone is close to you? Should it be a subtle signature, or more of a bold statement?

To make it easier to deal with fragrance genres, it helps to divide them into a few basic scents . The deeper you delve, however, the more granular you can become and also differentiate between combinations of different fragrance worlds, which in turn form their own genre. In our view, the most reliable way to classify them is to use the principle of exclusion. In the second step, you can then find out which of the remaining fragrance genres appeals to you the most and then divide it into the aforementioned combinations. We roughly differentiate between the following fragrances:

Floral scents
Fruity scents
Fresh scents
Spicy scents
Woody scents
Sweet, creamy scents
Aquatic scents
Molecular fragrances
Musk scents
Citrus scents
Clean fragrances
Green scents
Gourmand fragrances (perfumes with edible notes, such as vanilla, which usually smell like dessert)

Your skin chemistry can greatly influence the scent of a perfume. Before you choose a suitable perfume, test it to ensure that it harmonizes well with your skin.

The skin chemistry plays a crucial role in the scent of a perfume. It influences how the perfume develops and can steer the scent in a completely different direction.
Every person has a unique chemical composition on their skin, influenced by factors such as pH level, sebum production, sweat amount, and even diet. This individual skin chemistry interacts with the fragrance components of a perfume and can cause the scent to unfold in different ways.

Some fragrance notes may be more intense or last longer on one person's skin than on another's. To break it down simply: a perfume may last longer on someone with dry skin than on someone with oily skin, as the fragrance molecules can better adhere to dry skin. Moreover, certain fragrance ingredients may smell different on a person's skin due to the chemical reaction with that skin.

It's important to note that skin chemistry not only affects the initial scent of a perfume but also its development over time. A scent can change while being worn on a person's skin, as the various fragrance notes interact with the skin chemistry and evolve in a specific direction. What is perceived as fresh and citrusy at first can later transform into a warmer and woody scent.

Ultimately, individual skin chemistry makes most perfumes unique. Some more so than others. In particular, molecular perfumes have the strong ability to interact with skin chemistry and create something of their own. What smells great on one person may smell completely different on another. It is therefore advisable to test perfumes on your own skin before purchasing to ensure they harmonize with your skin and develop the desired scent character.

Choosing the right perfume requires patience and a willingness to experiment. Test different scents to find out which ones suit you best, how they develop on your skin, and which ones highlight your personality the most.

We always recommend taking your time and approaching testing with calmness. Testing perfumes in a rushed environment, surrounded by many other people, smells, and other influencing factors like noise and visual stimuli can be distracting. Testing perfume samples in a familiar environment, with enough time to assess the development and components of each fragrance's scent pyramid, makes all the difference.

The best way to test perfume is in a familiar place. Here, you can take your time and specifically focus on, for example, your wrist, and smell the perfume sprayed there. Additionally, there are fewer other perfumes around here than, for example, in a perfume shop, which could distract you or skew your judgment.
This way, you can also take the necessary time and, for example, test a different perfume every day, evaluate its longevity, ask those around you, and incorporate aspects like the effect on colleagues into your fine assessment.

For the reasons mentioned above, namely peace and quiet and testing in a familiar place, we also offer samples for every perfume ( you can find everything you need to know about our bottlings here ). You can order these hand-filled to your home so that you can choose exactly the right moment, the right mood and the right time to test them. If a scent doesn't blow you away straight away, you can have perfume samples filled in our store and test them in the peace and quiet of your own home to find the perfume that suits you and accentuates your personality, so that in the best case scenario it will be the scent you want to smell on yourself forever.