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3 Stages

Top Perfume Note
The initial, lighter smell of the fragrance, which lasts for around 8-15 minutes.

Heart/Middle Perfume Note
This remains constant throughout use of the fragrance (hence the term heart note) and develops after the top note.

Base Perfume Note
This is the last to develop, and helps to fix the fragrance to the skin. This is where you will smell the 'woodier' notes of the scent, which become more noticeable when the fragrance has been on the skin for a while.

  Citrus Citrus
The clean, tangy aroma of citrus fruits: lemons, mandarins, bergamot oranges and grapefruit. 		Citrus Soft oriental
Incense adds a sensual softness to heady flowers, spices and amber.
Green Green
The sharp green scent of crushed leaves and fresh-cut grass. 		Oriental Oriental
The hypnotic fragrances of oriental resins, night-blooming flowers, vanilla, musk.
Water Water
Soft sea breezes. 		Woody oriental Woody oriental
Rich oriental notes blended with the potent wood scents of patchouli and sandalwood.
Floral Floral
The fresh-cut fragrance of flowers from a single rose to a rich bouquet. 		Mossy woods Mossy woods
Perfumers call these forest notes of oakmoss, woods and citrus chypre fragrances.
Soft floral Soft floral
These soft, powdery floral aldehydes blend nature’s flowers with the perfumers aldehydes. 		Dry woods Dry woods
Dry resins, cedar and tobacco make a mossy-woody fragrance drier, sometimes a little smokey.
Floral oriental Floral oriental
The soft, spicy notes of orange flowers, sparkling aldehydes and sweet flowers. 		Aromatic fougere Aromatic fougere
Sexy cool-warm notes of citrus and lavender, sweet spices and oriental woods.

Perfume and aftershave from Givenchy

The House of Givenchy was launched by French designer Hubert de Givenchy back in 1952, and is now the second biggest branch of the French luxury goods conglomerate LVMH behind Dior.

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