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Every woman knows how important it is to smell good for both herself and that special person in her life. Looking for the right scent can be quite daunting with all the quality products currently available. To help you make the right choices we've put together this guide to the best fragrances on the market.

How to Choose and Buy Perfume

Perfumes are a mixture of essential oils and aromas. The smell of a particular perfume will vary slightly from woman to woman, as each person’s individual skin chemistry and body temperature will react slightly differently to a given scent, so each individual will have a different preference when choosing a perfume.

You may already enjoy choosing from a wide variety of very different perfumes, selecting whichever best suits your mood on a given day. However, if you usually stick with one favourite fragrance, and now want to change from your current brand to something similar, perhaps for a different occasion or to wear more frequently, then you should choose a perfume with a fragrance from the same category or olfactive family as your current favourite perfume.

Women’s perfume fragrances can be split into seven different olfactive families, as follows:

This group of perfumes contains chemicals from the aldehyde group. The most famous perfume in this group is Chanel No.5, which was also the first aldehydic perfume to be created.

Other perfumes in this group are Estee Lauder's White Linen and Lanvin’s Arpege.

Named after the perfume of the same name created by Coty in 1917, perfumes in this category have a base of bergamot, labdanum, patchouli and oakmoss, which gives a mixture of woody and floral tones. The scent of chypre perfumes tends to be very rich and long-lasting.

Perfumes in this group include Mitsouko by Guerlain and Clinique’s Aromatics Elixir.

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