Best luxury perfumes. When you hear that some perfumes are luxurious, what comes to your mind? Do you imagine perfumes that smell richly, have crystal glass bottles designed with gold and precious gems and sealed in an exotic pack? Well, you are not far from the truth. Unlike what most people don’t believe, luxury perfumes are just that – luxurious.
They are lavishing, plush, comfortable, exotic, unique, adorable, extravagant… you just name it. They are all these and more. So, the perfumes you are going to read about in this article have all these qualities mentioned above and so much more. They all have something unique that others don’t. That is what makes them luxurious.
Remember I said there are so many luxury perfumes for her or him out there but we had to choose only ten out of them. Hence, in this article, you’re going to find out details about the following perfumes:
For each of these perfumes, you are going to find out:
When this perfume was launched in 2019, it was labelled the most expensive and luxurious perfume in the world. Its flacon is decorated with diamonds, gold, silver, topaz, and pearls. The bottle is also exotically designed with a canopy top that has horses, a bird, and a garden of roses.
The packaging of the perfume is another hypnotic part of this fragrance. Let’s just say it is ‘housed’ in a bed chamber with beautifully decorated walls. Indeed, Shumukh is a true example of luxury perfumes. By the way, it’s a unisex perfume.
The Spirit of Dubai is a new perfume company that niches on luxury perfumes. It created its first set of perfumes in 2015 and has made only 16 perfumes so far. Each of its perfumes is designed to reflect the culture and attributes of Dubai, where the company is domiciled. As a result, all the perfumes produced and launched by The Spirit of Dubai reflect the luxurious way of life of the people.
The Spirit of Dubai, so far, creates and launches its perfumes under two labels. These are:
When you open the bottle of Shumukh or spray its liquid gold, the stories the perfume will tell you to include about:
This perfume is exotically blended that it is difficult to tell when the one set of notes dissipates to give way to the next set. The perfume’s longevity is eternal and its sillage, enormous. If the perfume touches your skin, you are sure to be covered for the next 12 hours.
If it touches your clothes, it will smell on them for more than a month. This can explain why its blends are difficult to differentiate. However, the notes you are sure to receive from Shumukh are:
Shumukh sells for a whopping $1,295,000. That is almost $1.3million. Well, now you understand that luxury perfumes don’t come cheap. The ingredients and flacon are there to tell you all you need to know about this fragrance.
It’s golden, tantalising, and delicious at the same time. That is why it is called Golden Delicious. This perfume is one of the best luxury perfumes produced by Donna Karan New York (DKNY) perfume brand and gifted to women. The perfume was launched in 2010 and it has not ceased to amaze people and win them over.
The perfume’s flacon and top are spherical like a bowl, giving off the impression that a delicious meal was covered in the diamond-encrusted bowl and served to you.
But then, the flacon is made of delicate clear glass, not plastic. It has a gold-coloured ring placed around it and stones of different types and sizes used to beautify the ring.
Inside the bottle is the delicious meal in a golden liquid form, which makes the bottle sparkle like pure apple juice. Looking at and holding the bottle of this perfume will remind you of a juicy tantalizingly flavoured golden apple. But let’s see if it smells as it looks.
Donna Karan New York (popularly known as DKNY) is an American fashion company that extended its production to fragrance. The company was founded by Donna Karan in 1984 but it went into perfume making in 1992.
However, DKNY makes its perfumes in collaboration with Estee Lauder, a partnership that has seen the successful launch of more than 170 perfumes.
Note that DKNY does not create only luxury perfumes. Even though it has created many bestselling perfumes for men and women, it is not all of them that met our criteria for luxury perfumes. Nevertheless, its perfume labels include:
What else do you expect from a luxury perfume such as Golden Delicious for Women if not enormous projection and eternal longevity? As for its notes, you will receive the following:
Golden Delicious for her is another very expensive perfume in the world. Currently, it sells for $1m.
This is one of the best rose perfumes you can find around the world. The amazing perfume was launched in 1925, shortly before the Great Depression, as the world’s most expensive perfume for her. Note that the bottle of this perfume wasn’t embellished like many other luxury perfumes but it still didn’t remove it from this exclusive list.
I mean, a perfume that survived the Great Depression and still retains its name among the contemporary luxury perfumes is one super perfume everyone should reckon with. To crown it all, Joy for Women won the FiFi Award as the “Scent of the Century” in the year 2000.
What do you expect when a bottle of the fragrance is a blend of more than 28 dozens of roses and over 10,000 jasmine flowers? This perfume is truly a gift from Jean Patou to women.
Jean Patou is a French fashion house that was officially founded in 1912 by Jean Patou. The fashion house extended its business to perfume making in 1925 and has been creating more perfumes ever since. Patou is known as a perfume magician because of the unique fragrances he created by himself.
Fortunately, he created the luxury perfume, “Joy”. Patou died in 1936 but, as good as his company is, its production didn’t stop. The fashion house of Jean Patou has continued to create more perfumes. Nevertheless, it is uncertain if its latest perfumes can be branded as luxury perfumes.
But we know most of them have found their ways to the bestsellers’ lists. Jean Patou launched most of its perfume under the following labels:
The longevity of this heavenly perfume is eternal. That means it can smell more than 12 hours on your skin and longer on fabrics. Its projection is also enormous. As for the notes, here they are:
Joy for Women by Jean Patou is currently sold at $850 per ounce.
Looking at this perfume’s flacon reminds me of an Egyptian perfume barrel. Obviously, this company wants you to have such an enormous barrel of exotically smelling perfume with you and so it created a miniature bottle of it. This perfume was launched in 1954 to fill the world with a spicy flavour that still carries it to date.
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Caron is a French company that produces only fragrances. It was founded in 1904 by Ernest Daltroff. Considering that this company has been creating perfumes since its inception, one shouldn’t be surprised to hear it has given the world several exotic perfumes, about 110 of them, and that it’s still creating more. Right now, the company creates and launches its perfumes under the following labels:
Poivre Caron has eternal longevity and enormous sillage. Its notes are:
Currently, Poivre Caron sells at $1,000 per ounce.
No.1 for Men by Clive Christian is an amber woody perfume created for Him and launched in 2001. The flacon of this perfume wears a golden crown to show you it’s designed for the kings. Its golden bottle will also remind you of golden robes worn by royalties. I think every man should get a bottle of this perfume for that special outing.
The company, Clive Christian, is a perfume company founded in 1999 by Clive Christian as a British luxury perfume brand. This company came into being when its owner acquired a perfume house, Crown Perfumery, which was established in London in 1872.
To retain the Victorian spirit and culture, Clive maintained the Victorian quality of the perfumes created by Crown Perfumery. Today, it has created more than 80 perfumes that will tell you the story of Victorian England. These perfumes are produced under the following labels:
The longevity of No.1 for Men by Clive Christian is eternal and its sillage is enormous. Its fragrance is a blend of several notes, which include:
The price of this exotic perfume is $2,150 per ounce.
Remember what I said about using the flacon of perfumes to guess their values? Well, Cherry Garden for Women by House of Sillage has proved me right again. The bottle is designed as a cupcake and decorated with stones. A look at it will tell you what lies within.
This wonderful fragrance launched in 2012 is designed for ladies that love floral-fruity fragrances. As the name suggests, this perfume will remind you of succulent cherries. Search for it and pick a bottle today.
As the name suggests, House of Sillage is a perfume company. It’s an American niche perfume designer, founded by Nicole Mather in 2011. So far, the company has created and successfully launched 47 perfumes under the following labels:
As expected, the longevity of this perfume is eternal and its sillage, enormous. The fragrance is a blend of the following notes:
The 2.5 oz bottle of Cherry Garden for Her by House of Sillage is $1,200.
There’s no way this list will pass without Chanel No. 5 featuring in it. This perfume was launched in 1921 but it has never ceased to amaze the world. Recently, a version of this amazing perfume was dyed red and launched in honour of the founder, Gabrielle Chanel.
This latest edition is called No. 5 Limited Edition Grand Extrait, and it is for women too. Even though we still love the golden simple-bottled floral adelhyde perfume that set the world of women on fire long ago, we want to celebrate this latest edition.
Chanel is a French fashion house founded by Gabrielle ‘Coco’ Chanel in 1910. The fashion house launched its first perfume, No. 5, in 1921 because the founder wanted her female customers to smell good while they look beautiful. This perfume took the world by surprise and has never ceased to do so.
Today, the fashion house of Chanel has launched about 130 perfumes, many of which are either bestsellers or luxury perfumes. Its perfume labels include:
The longevity of No. 5 Limited Edition Grand Extrait is eternal and its sillage, enormous. Here are the notes of the perfume:
An ounce of this latest Chanel No. 5 sells at $1,000 per ounce.
The black flacon of this perfume will remind you of the Persian cuneiforms. The perfume was launched in 2015 for her and it is encased in a black bottle to show how cool and matured the fragrance is. Considering that it’s a leather fragrance, the perfume is designed for women of confidence. Alaia Eau de Parfum gives off the fragrance you receive when cold water is poured on hot red bricks.
Alaia Paris is a perfume-making company that was founded in the 1980s. It is a niche perfume designer but it has not launched many perfumes since its inception. Nevertheless, the perfumes it has launched so far belong to the luxury perfume category.
The longevity of Alaia Eau de Parfum is eternal and its sillage, enormous. The notes are:
A 3.3 oz bottle of Alaia Eau de Parfum sells at $2,500.
The flacon of this perfume is enough to make you fall in love with it. The bottle is decorated with sparkling Swarovski crystals that speak volumes about the liquid inside as it begs you to pick it up and take it home with you.
Note that Bond No. 9 has other exotic perfumes under the New Bond St. perfume series, but we want to celebrate this special one today. Nevertheless, all the perfumes from this company are spectacular, to say the least.
Bond No. 9 is an American fragrance company that was established in 2003. The company niches on creating perfumes that depict the culture of New York and all that the city has to offer. So far, it has launched about 150 perfumes that have won the hearts of people. You can find its perfumes under the following labels:
As you would have expected, the longevity of this amazing perfume is eternal and its sillage, enormous. Here are its notes:
A 4.2 oz bottle of this perfume sells for $7,500.
I want us to close this list with a bang. For that, I bring to you one of the world’s most expensive perfumes: Le Monde Sur Mesure by Morreale Paris. You won’t believe the bottle of this perfume is gold-encrusted, more like armoured with a golden shield. The bottle itself is an art piece.
You can then use that to imagine what was shielded within it. But that is not all you will get here. The flacon of this heavenly perfume is also decorated with precious stones so that when you buy this perfume, you also buy gold, diamonds, and/or rubies used to design the bottle. Note that perfume was launched in 2018 for both men and women and the sensation it brought into the world is still very much alive.
Morreale Paris is a French niche designer perfume company founded in 2018 by the Morreale Family. The intention of this company is to create only luxury perfumes, which it has been doing since its inception. The company has, so far, launched about four luxury perfumes.
Of course, the longevity and sillage of this perfume are top-notch. What else would anyone expect? As for the notes, here is the blend of fragrances you will receive and smell when you get your own bottle of Le Monde sur Mesure:
This exquisite perfume sells between $1.5m and $20m, depending on the perfume size and bottle design. This is, indeed, the perfume for billionaires.
This is one of the challenges we had when we were trying to identify which perfume should be considered a luxury and which shouldn’t. There are so many exotic perfumes with exceptional fragrances out there. Many of them are even from good brands. But it’s not all of them that met the criteria we used to determine luxury perfumes.
We had to sieve through a long list of thousands of perfumes (including some from your favourite brands) before we could find ten that met most of the criteria on our scorecard. In case you want to know, the criteria we used to decide the perfumes that should belong to this special list are:
Below, we will explain how these criteria were used and why we used them.
The price of any perfume can tell you its class. Let’s look at it this way. When you are about to book a flight and you need to receive maximum comfort during the journey, what do you do? Go for the first-class cabin, isn’t it? But how cheap is that first-class ticket you just paid for? Can you compare it to the economy class?
The same way your first-class cabin’s ticket is expensive is the way luxury perfumes are expensive. They are equivalent to the first-class cabin in an aeroplane. So, if a perfume is not very expensive, it can’t (in fact, it doesn’t) belong to the class of luxury perfumes. It’s just the way it is.
Luxury perfumes are usually packaged as if their bottles can break easily. Of course, when you consider the price of the content that bottle is holding, you may understand the need for the extra care taken to package it safely. Apart from being packaged as something very fragile, many luxury perfumes are also exotically packaged.
If you go to the section of a perfumery that sells luxury perfumes, you will notice their packs are well designed and, sort of, illuminated; they always stand out. This may, however, not be the case for all luxury perfumes, but this feature works for any perfume that has it. No brand will waste its resources designing an exotic packet for a perfume that isn’t luxurious.
The containers of luxury perfumes are, in most cases, exotically designed. Have you heard of perfume bottles that were studded with diamonds? What about those that have gold linings? Ok, let’s not get too far because it’s not all luxury perfumes that have stone studs or gold plates on their bottles.
But you need to know that many luxury perfumes (especially if they are for women) come in exotically designed bottles and tops. Always use this knowledge when looking for one.
The scents of all the luxury perfumes are unique. They are like signatures. You can hardly get such scents from non-luxury perfumes. Even amongst them, their scents are so unique that you can identify which has which scent. The reason for this is simple – luxury perfumes are created with rare ingredients.
Most of them are made with natural materials that are hard to come by. Even those that have synthetic substances go for those rare ones so that you don’t get their fragrances from cheaper perfumes.
Of course, since scarce materials are always expensive, the materials used in making these perfumes are expensive too. This may help you understand one of the reasons these perfumes are expensive.
The truth is, it’s not all the good perfume brands that create luxury perfumes. The brands that do make luxury perfumes niche on it. That means all (or most of) the perfumes they launch are luxury perfumes. For this, if you know the brands that niche on luxury perfumes, you will know where to buy yours when you need one.
Note that it is not always the case that only the companies that niche on luxury perfumes create one; others can too. But it doesn’t happen all the time. So I’ll still suggest you stick to the companies that produce luxury perfumes when you want to get yours.
It’s not necessary to state that luxury perfumes have very good qualities but you need to know that. Like I stated earlier, some of them are made from natural materials, which may not harm you. That doesn’t mean all-natural materials are safe but you are surer of them than the synthetic ones.
Anyway, you won’t pay thousands of dollars (and sometimes millions of dollars) to take home a low-quality perfume, would you? One more thing, they usually have long-lasting (in not eternal) longevity and very strong projection.
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Let me ask, how many seats do you find on the first-class cabin in the aeroplane? Why are they not as many as you see on the economy or premium economy class cabins? How come the seats are fewer than the ones you see on the business class cabin? The answer is simple – the place is reserved for very few passengers. This is also the same way luxury perfumes are produced for very few special users.
Apart from the materials used in producing them being expensive, the prices of the perfumes can cause buyers to think twice before buying them. Hence, their sales are not as huge as that of regular perfumes. Luxury perfumes are also the type you can wear to special occasions, so they are not what you buy regularly.
As a result, these perfumes are not produced in large numbers. Some brands don’t even sell theirs at regular perfume shops. You may be surprised some luxury perfumes are only produced when customers order them. So, if you see a mass-produced ‘luxury perfume’, run, it’s the imposter.
Now you will agree with us that there is something special about luxury perfumes. From their bottles to the contents within the bottles, these mentioned perfumes contain qualities that make them luxurious. You can see some are so expensive while others are not. But that doesn’t mean people don’t buy them.
Trust, those perfumes aren’t just pieces of art that stay on shelves for tourists and excursionists to view, do their oohs and aahs and then move to another shelf. This is to say that you should consider investing in one of these perfumes. Trust me, you’ll be happy you did.
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