Floral Perfumes: The Most Popular Womens Perfumes

Floral perfumes are fragrances that are dominated by one or several types of flower notes. These types of perfume are predominately feminine and made for women although many of them can also be classified as unisex.
Floral fragrances can be split into many smaller groups such as Single florals, Florientals, Heady florals, Floral bouquet, Fruity florals, Soft florals, Aldehydic florals, Green florals and Woody florals. Depending on the distinctive accompanying scent notes in the perfume.
The floral fragrance category is one the oldest style of perfumes that were created by most of the earliest prestigious perfume houses.
In eras past, especially during the regency period, floral perfumes were the trend of the day and used in making status statements among the very rich.
Both men and women regularly doused themselves in floral perfumes made with intensely aromatic oils.
Rose, Jasmine, Orange blossom, Carnation, Frangipani, Lotus, Champaka, Tuberose and other expensive natural flower oils were the most common perfume ingredients used in the blends of the day.
Floral perfumes remain the most popular fragrance group to this day, they are numerous and extensive in their scents and characteristics, appealing to people right across the generations.
Vast numbers of floral perfumes are created every year by the perfume industry to meet this demand.
The availability of such an amazing variety of perfumes within the floral family is truly fascinating, from vibrant and intoxicatingly complex fragrances like Beautiful and Pleasures from Estee Lauder, to single florals that only contain the fragrance note of a single flower such as Stella by Stella McCartney, which as a beautiful rose scent.
In the early days of perfumery, French perfume houses were renowned for making perfume in the traditional style using the industry staples of natural perfume ingredients like essential oils and botanical compounds, sometimes accentuated with other ingredients like musk and ambergris derived from animal by products.
However, in modern times and in recent years, perfumers have moved away from classic perfume making style.
With easy access to thousands of aromatic raw materials, modern perfume makers are no longer under the constraints that were placed on their predecessors from earlier eras by having limited aromatic ingredients to work with.
The composition process of perfumes is now much more exciting; and the combination of creativity, quality perfume supplies and technological advancement has really turned things on its head, making the creation of beautiful perfumes quite common place.
Perfumer makers are now constantly composing great floral scents with perfume notes that do not exist in nature.
Headspace technology and aroma chemicals are extensively used to produce fresh and fruity floral notes that are sweeter and more vibrant than those used in classics floral perfumes.
These days, it’s not uncommon to find vibrant floral perfumes that contain notes of bluebells, raspberries, ozone, melon, apples, and other such notes used to add substance and character to a blend.
Light Blue for women by Dolce and Gabbana and Island Kiss by Escada are popular examples of such blends.
Nevertheless, although modern floral perfumes are by far the most popular perfumes sold these days, the more traditional old faithful heady floral perfumes made with rich and heavy floral notes still command a good part of the market.
As does soft floral perfumes bygone days that are made with airy notes of Lily of the valley, Gardenia, Freesias, Aldehydes and other white flowers.
They too continue to stand their ground and retain their dedicated following.