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3 Stages

Click the names opposite to view fragrances in each category

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

The clean, tangy aroma of citrus fruits: lemons, mandarins, bergamot oranges and grapefruit.

Soft oriental

Incense adds a sensual softness to heady flowers, spices and amber.

Green

The sharp green scent of crushed leaves and fresh-cut grass.

Oriental

The hypnotic fragrances of oriental resins, night-blooming flowers, vanilla, musk.

Water

Soft sea breezes.

Woody oriental

Rich oriental notes blended with the potent wood scents of patchouli and sandalwood.

Floral

The fresh-cut fragrance of flowers from a single rose to a rich bouquet.

Mossy woods

Perfumers call these forest notes of oakmoss, woods and citrus chypre fragrances.

Soft Floral

These soft, powdery floral aldehydes blend nature’s flowers with the perfumers aldehydes.

Dry woods

Dry resins, cedar and tobacco make a mossy-woody fragrance drier, sometimes a little smokey.

Floral oriental

The soft, spicy notes of orange flowers, sparkling aldehydes and sweet flowers.

Aromatic fougere

Sexy cool-warm notes of citrus and lavender, sweet spices and oriental woods.

Perfume and aftershave from James Bronnley

19-year-old James Bronnley was studying the art of soap-making in Paris in 1884, when he founded his own company H. Bronnley & Co.

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