Many people out there cannot stand the scents of perfumes. They know what perfumes do for the world but they react negatively to their smells. Some people develop minor or serious respiratory problems when they are exposed to perfumes.
Some feel sick to their stomachs while others develop migraines, watery eyes, and dizziness all because of perfumes. As they say, one man’s meat is another’s poison. Whereas some people love perfume and can’t do without it, others run from it because of how they react to it. Life is, indeed, mysterious.
Our concern today is on ladies that love perfumes and want to wear them but they can’t because of the reactions they will have. Specifically, this article focuses on those that are sensitive to strong perfumes. These are women that can’t wear perfumes because they don’t enjoy their strong smells.
People like this don’t need strong perfumes. They need perfumes they can wear without being choked up by the smell. If you are one of such persons, this article is for you.
As mentioned earlier, this article focuses on ladies that want to wear perfumes but can’t because they are sensitive to strong fragrances.
This means that this article is going to present them with a list of mild perfumes they can wear without reacting negatively to their smells. We are going to provide the names of best mild bestselling perfumes for ladies and their reviews. Here, we are going to reviews the following perfumes:
For each of these perfumes, you are going to read about its brand, main accords, notes, longevity, and sillage. By the time you are through reading this, you will have a list of ten amazing perfumes to choose from.
Finally, we’re here. In this section, you’re going to read about the ten perfumes listed above. They will be reviewed to give you information on:
Vanilj was created by Maya Njie herself to give men and ladies a feel of the Swedish tradition. The fragrance was launched in 2016 and it has remained on the minds of its users ever since it hit the market. The perfume is said to be so mild that you can hardly tell when one note deactivates for the next one to come up.
What is more? Its users barely feel its scents. It is people around them that smell and compliments them for their amazing smelling scents. I guess this perfume is a must-buy for those that love their perfumes to be as mild as Vainilj.
Maya Njie is a United Kingdom perfume company that niches on designer luxury perfumes. It was founded by Swedish-born Maya Njie in 2016. Maya founded her perfume company because she believes that perfumes should be used as a medium of communication.
She was inspired by her childhood in Sweden before she moved to London and so she created her perfumes to capture her experiences in Sweden. Some of the perfumes she has successfully launched are:
The main accords of Vanilj by Maya Njie are:
The main notes you will receive from this perfume are:
The longevity of this perfume is moderate. This is to say that it can last up to 5 hours (or longer) on your skin and clothes.
The sillage of the perfume is moderate.
Sarah Horowitz created this perfume by herself and launched it in 1999. This floral musky woody fragrance was designed to capture and reveal the essence of its wearer. Hence, the perfume picks up your personality the moment you wear it.
As the name suggests, Sarah Horowitz Parfums is a United States fragrance company. It was founded in 1997 by Sarah Horowitz, one of the American’s best niche perfume designers. Sarah is known for creating customised perfumes for her clients, many of which are rated as unique and exotic.
She did not stop doing this even as she mass produces her perfumes. Today, the company has launched several bestselling perfumes for both men and women. Among its top-selling perfumes are:
The longevity of this perfume is eternal. This means its scent can last up to 10 or 12 hours on your skin and clothes.
The sillage of Perfect Veil is moderate to some users and intimate to others. However, very few people think it is enormous.
Escentric 04 is a unisex perfume created for the brand by Geza Schoen and launched in 2017. The woody fragrance was created with the intention of captivating its wearers with its javanol essence. Many wearers have come out to state how mild this perfume is, with many of them comparing it to water.
Some of the comments about this perfume showed that its users don’t smell it on themselves even though those around them do. Maybe this could be the right perfume for you.
Escentric Molecules is a German perfume company that was founded in 2006 by Geza Schon, a German master perfumer. Geza founded this company because he wanted to create perfumes by concentrating on the aroma’s molecules.
In Escentric Molecules, perfumes are created as an art of chemistry. So far, the perfume house has successfully launched many bestselling perfumes, including:
The longevity of Escentric 04 depends on its user. For some users, it is eternal. To others, it is long-lasting. However, many of them believe it is moderate.
According to different comments about Escentric 04, the perfume has intimate, moderate, strong, and enormous sillage. However, judging from the most popular opinion, the perfume has moderate sillage.
When the fragrance house of Juliette Has a Gun created this perfume and called it Not a Perfume, they meant to state that the fragrance is actually not a perfume. In the actual sense, this perfume is not formulated as a perfume because it is an ambrox in a bottle.
This is so because its major ingredient is ambroxan. This amazing fragrance was launched in 2010 after it was created by Romano Ricci. It was specially made for people that are sensitive to perfumes. If you would love the floral musky woody smell of this fragrance, I think you should give it a try.
Juliette Has a Gun is a French fragrance company that was founded in 2005 by the grandson of Nina Ricci, Romano Ricci. Romano was inspired by Juliette, the character in Shakespeare’s Romeo and Juliette, when he started his business. He believed he could capture the romantic essence of the modern Juliette in his perfumes. And guess what? He succeeded.
Being a perfumer himself, Romano has created many of his company’s perfumes, in collaboration with another nose, Francis Kurkjian. The company has successfully launched up to 28 perfumes after its inception. Some of its top bestselling perfumes are:
The main accords of Not a Perfume by Juliette Has a Gun are
Not a Perfume has only two notes. These are:
Remember, this is a non-perfumed fragrance. It wasn’t created as a perfume. It only has the sweet-smelling ambroxan and then the cetalox. As a result, you will not receive the usual top, middle, and base notes as you will find in other perfumes.
The longevity of Not a Perfume by Juliette Has a Gun depends on the person wearing it. For some people, it is eternal. To others, it is long-lasting. Many people believe it is moderate while others felt its longevity is either weak or very weak.
A lot of users believe this perfume has an intimate sillage. However, there are those that belief is moderate, strong, as well as enormous. Nevertheless, judging from popular opinion, the sillage of the fragrance is intimate.
As an independent and confident woman, who is sure of her style, you need a bottle of Modern Muse Eau de Parfum to complete your daily looks. This amazing perfume was launched in 2013 by Estée Lauder, one of the oldest and most famous perfume houses.
This floral woody fragrance that was specially designed for women to inspire and perfect their styles is a huge attempt by the brand to climb back to the top of the perfume brands’ ladder.
Well, the plan is working as this superb combination of femininity and strength is selling pretty good. The nose, Harry Fremont, while attempting to capture the amazing nature of women, combined two amazing accords: sparkling jasmine and sleek woods, to reach the floral woody nature of the fragrance. The flacon of this perfume is plainly but beautifully designed to show the essence of its content. This perfume is truly the muse of a lot of women.
Estée Lauder is an old perfume house that was founded in the United States in 1946 by Joseph and Estée Lauder. Initially, the company focused on skincare products because Estee, the brain behind the brand, believed that every woman can be beautiful.
Under the guidance of her Uncle, a chemist and skincare specialist, she gained knowledge and experience in the skincare and cosmetics industry. Estee moved her company from offering door-to-door sales and services to what it is today.
The company unveiled its first fragrance, Youth Dew, which doubled as a bath oil and perfume, in 1953. Estee Lauder has remained a household name in the perfume world because of how it provides men and women with exotic fragrances. Some of the creations from this house include:
Modern Muse contains the following as its main accord:
This perfume is best for those who cannot stand strong perfumes because its longevity is moderate.
The sillage of this perfume is moderate.
The award-winning perfume, Daisy by Marc Jacobs, is a floral woody musk fragrance, designed for sophisticated, seductive, dazzling, and humble women. The perfume was created by Alberto Morillas and launched by the Marc Jacobs perfume house in 2007.
If you are searching for a fresh and feminine fragrance, you’re welcome home. Daisy meets those requirements and more. Because of how extraordinary this perfume is, it won the FiFi Award Fragrance Of The Year Women`s Luxe 2008 as well as the FiFi Awards Best Packaging Women`s Prestige 2008.
The history of the Marc Jacobs perfume brand is quite interesting and unique. Marc Jacobs discovered where his interest lies early enough and hence attended the High School of Art and Design, from where he graduated in 1981. The talented American fashion designer continued his education at Parsons School of Design in New York.
There at Parsons, he won two Gold Thimble awards and a Design Student of the Year award. Still, as a student, Marc Jacobs designed and sold his first line of hand-knit sweaters.
Moving on, the talented designer in 1986 joined forces with Kashiyama USA Inc, to introduce his first collection, the Marc Jacobs label. Through this, Jacobs won another award, the Perry Ellis Award for New Fashion Talent. Later in 1988 he joined the Perry Ellis fashion company but he left in 1993 to build his brand, Marc Jacobs International, where he launched his first menswear collection in 1994.
Fragrances appeared in the Marc Jacobs store in 2001, following the launch of Marc Jacobs for Women, the company’s first perfume. The brand has grown to become one of the best perfume brands the world has today. It has successfully launched more than 136 perfumes, which were created in collaboration of many outstanding perfumers, such as Jean Claude Delville, Steve DeMercado, Frank Vöelkl, Richard Herpin, and so on. Some of the best selling launched by Marc Jacobs are:
The longevity of Daisy is considered moderate by some users and weak by others. This shows that the perfume can last up to 4 hours or more.
Judging from what the users stated, Daisy has intimate sillage though a good number of users consider it as intimate.
Rose Goldea was launched in 2016 by Bvlgari following the success of its predecessor, Goldea. This woody floral musky perfume was designed to make women feel seductive, feminine, warm, and exquisite. What else do you expect from a perfume designed by Alberto Morillas, one of the world’s best. Little wonder the perfume house, Bvlgari, described this magical fragrance as “a homage to gold and femininity inspired by the goddess of gold, and the beauty of the Sun.”
This Italian luxury house was founded in 1884 by Greek-born Sotirios Voulgaris. Mr Voulgaris learned to trade in jewellery in Greece. In 1877, however, he left his hometown for Corfu. From there, he entered Naples and eventually settled in Rome in 1881.
Are you wondering how Voulgaris arrived at his company’s name? Well, “Bvlgari” is derived from the founder’s last name, Voulgaris. However, the letter “V” in the word is the Latin classical alphabet character for the letter “U”. Thus you pronounce the brand’s name as “Bulgari.”
Bvlgari started its business as a jewellery brand but it later expanded to include watches, handbags, accessories, hotels, and fragrances. In 1992, it introduced its first fragrance, Eau Parfumée au Thé Vert, to the market. Currently, the magnificent brand can boost 123 perfumes from its first edition in 1992 to the newest one created in 2021. Some of the company’s bestselling perfumes are:
The main accords of Rose Goldea by Bvlgari are:
Rose Goldea is a mild womanly fragrance. If you are allergic to harsh perfumes then this should be your choice; no sneezing, no reactions, just a great fragrance with moderate longevity. Get a bottle today if you love roses.
The sillage of this great amazing perfume is moderate, though a lot of users believe it is intimate.
Green Tea by Elizabeth Arden is another perfume loved by people because of how mild and soft it is. This amazing citrus aromatic perfume made for women was created by the illustrious Francis Kurkdjian and launched in 1999. Just like the other perfumes launched by Elizabeth Arden, Green Tea became a bestseller the moment it hit the shelf.
Elizabeth Arden, an American cosmetics and skincare company, was founded by a Canadian entrepreneur, Florence Nightingale Graham, in 1910. However, Graham adopted Elizabeth Arden as her brand and company’s name and it became a household name almost immediately.
Initially, the company’s original area of focus was on skincare and cosmetics. If you can remember, the popular Red Door spa was one of its amazing contributions to the world of beauty. It was first opened in Manhattan before it spread to major cities around the world.
Elizabeth Arden expanded its niche to fragrances in 1934 when it launched Blue Grass. The perfume became a hit the moment it hit the market so the company continued to launch more amazing perfumes. Among its bestselling perfumes are:
The longevity of this perfume is moderate. However, some users believe it is weak. You will also find those that felt it is very weak. This means the perfume can last up to five hours for you.
One beautiful thing about this perfume is that everybody that uses it or has come across ladies that use it can tell you that its sillage is intimate. Green Tea is not a loud perfume.
Wood Sage and Sea Salt is an aromatic fragrance made for both women and men launched in September 2014 by Jo Malone London. When Christine Nagel, the nose behind this fragrance, was creating the perfume, she had the imagination of the British beach in mind.
For that, she composed the perfume with sage, sea salt, ambrette seed, grapefruit, and red algae and grapefruit. What this amazing experiment resulted in was an exotic perfume that could evoke the spirit of freedom, pleasure, and escape into nature.
Jo Malone is a UK-based fragrance designer, who has always been fond of fragrances. As a child, Malone blended grated soaps and flowers from the family garden to produce her own fragrances. When she grew up, she continued with her quest into the fragrance by working as a florist by day and a beautician at night.
However, her business took a good turn when she produced a Nutmeg and Ginger bath oil as a gift for her client. The client, being so impressed by the bath oil, re-ordered the product and kicked off a new set of business for Malone and the world.
It’s also important to note that Jo has always been an advocate of the concept of combining fragrances. Her scents were created to be either worn alone or with other scents in the collection. She always believes that wearers should be allowed to create their unique scents – or a variety of them – by layering different scents on the skin. With that as a guide, this house has launched several bestselling perfumes, including:
Wood Sage & Sea Salt has moderate longevity. This means the perfume can last up to six hours on you.
Wood Sage & Sea Salt is a very mild perfume because its sillage is intimate.
Burberry Brit from the fashion house of Burberry is a typical example of a fruity fragrance with some floral feels. This amazing perfume was launched in 2003 after it was created by Nathalie Gracia-Cetto. This is a fragrance that was created with an intention to keep the English tradition alive but with a blend of the modern world.
Burberry is an outstanding British luxury fashion and accessory company that was founded by Thomas Burberry in 1856. This fashion was issued a Royal Warrant for Clothing from the British Royal Family because of how unique its fashion lines were.
You can tell the clothes and accessories designed by this house because of the tartan pattern that has become its signature. Burberry ventured into the perfume business in 1981 when it launched its first fragrance, Burberry for Men.
Of course, its first fragrance took the market by waves so it went ahead to launch more perfumes. Some of the bestselling mild perfumes the house has launched for women are:
The longevity of Burberry Brits is long-lasting. However, a good number of users believe it is moderate because it only lasts for about five hours on them.
The sillage of this perfume is moderate. Only a few users think its sillage is intimate.
Before we continue, we are going to look at some technical terms you may need to know what they mean before we proceed. You may have come across these terms but overlooked them because you didn’t consider them important. Nevertheless, because you need to know what they represent before you choose your mild perfume, we will take a look at them in this section.
These terms are main accords, notes, longevity, and sillage. If you understand what these four terms mean, you can read any perfume reviews without challenges. So, let’s look at them one after the other.
There’s something I believe you should know about these reviews. Everything you’re going to read here will come from the independent and unbiased reviews of the users of these perfumes. We searched for their comments about the perfumes, found them in different forums, scrutinized what they said about the perfumes, and then arrived at what we will summarise in this review.
This is to say that we will present what other mild perfume seekers, finders, and lovers have to say about the reviewed perfumes. So, nothing you will meet here comes from our personal opinions.
Each time you smell a perfume, your imagination begins to go wild. Your sense of smell picks up the scents of the perfume and transfer some messages to the other four senses (sight, hearing, feeling, and tasting) so that they can conjure up a mental picture or some mind pictures that represent what the perfume smells. For instance, if the perfume smells like vanilla, you will think of vanilla ice creams, cakes, and so on.
If it smells like soap, you will think of soaps as well as cleanliness, and freshness. If it smells citrusy, you will be rejuvenated because your mind is creating pictures of fresh citrus fruits and their refreshing tastes. These are some of the magical works every perfume performs.
The pictures, feelings, tastes, smells, and sounds perfumes conjure up when their scents are smelt are their main accords. Every good perfume has main accords or main accord, depending on the blend of fragrances it contains. In fact, every fragrance and odour has main accords. So, always look out for perfumes with the right main accords for you.
In this review, we are going to include the main accords of the perfumes we will present to you. Considering that what we are looking for are mild perfumes, we believe their main accords should tell how mild they are. Remember that the users of these perfumes are the ones that will tell you about them. They are people like you that also needed mild perfumes and so they will tell us how good the ones they found are. The wonderful thing is that we brought what they recommended for you.
Every good perfume has three layers of depths. Good perfumers create perfumes to activate their fragrances in three stages. These stages are called perfume notes. The first stage is the head or top note(s). The second one is the middle or heart note(s). And the third stage is the base note(s). Let’s look deeper into them one after the other.
When you open a bottle of perfume or spray it, there is a sudden burst of fragrance or set of fragrances that are released. These fragrances, in strong perfumes, are what make you sneeze or cough. They are also the fragrance that people smell immediately after the perfume is sprayed as well as the ones that tell people someone is wearing perfume. This first outburst of fragrance is what is known as the top notes or the headnotes.
The top note of any perfume does not last long. Usually, it dissipates after 5 to 15 minutes. But then, it will saturate your sense of smell so that you may stop smelling your perfume on yourself by the time it dries down to the next layer of fragrances.
Nevertheless, when buying perfumes, wait for their top notes to deactivate so you can verify what the middle notes smell like. You may love the top notes but find the middle notes unpleasant. This is why you shouldn’t base your decision on top notes alone. Always remember, top notes are there to invite you to like the perfume. It is like the announcer and advertiser but never the core.
The middle or heart notes of any perfume are its core. It is the heart of the fragrance. It is activated the moment the top notes are through with their works. This set of fragrances is the ones that stay with you for five to seven hours (or longer), making people smile at you because they love your smell.
In most cases, you may not smell your perfume’s middle notes on you because the top notes have saturated your senses already. However, if you are wearing the perfume you don’t like, you may continue to smell the middle notes all through the day.
That can be irritating to say the least. Because of this, you have to let the perfume you want to buy to dry down to its middle notes so you will be sure they won’t be too strong for you. We will also present you the middle notes of the reviewed perfumes so you will know what they contain before you go for any of them.
After the top notes deactivate, the heart notes will come alive. But then, the heart notes will also leave you within the day. If you don’t retouch your perfume, the base notes will activate and keep you company for the rest of the day.
Even if you retouch your perfume, the base notes will still activate later so that they will stay with the clothes and keep them fresh until you wash them.
Hence, as you go for perfumes, go for those with desirable base notes. The good news here is that base notes are usually not strong. Or rather, their sillage is not enormous. So, for people that want mild perfumes, the top and heart notes are what they have to focus more on.
Perfumes are designed to last for some hours before they deactivate. The length of time each perfume lasts is its longevity. In this review, if we say the longevity of any perfume is eternal, we mean that the fragrance lasts more than 12 hours. If we say it is long-lasting, it means it can last up to 8 or 10 hours.
If we rate it as moderate, then the perfume lasts between 5 to 6 hours. Finally, if we say it is weak or very weak, know that the fragrance lasts between 3 to 5 hours or up to 3 hours, respectively. Since you want a mild perfume, you should also consider the type of longevity you want.
If you don’t want the scent to last a long time on you, you should avoid perfumes with long-lasting and eternal longevity. Bear this in mind as you decide.
Sillage here is talking about the projection of perfumes. It’s referring to how the perfume announces itself on its wearer. For instance, you can smell perfumes worn by some people when they are some meters away. You can also smell that of others’ minutes (if not hours) after they left a room.
This is the sillage of the perfume. Since, you are going for mild perfumes, you should avoid those with enormous and strong sillage and aim for the ones with intimate and moderate sillage. But I’ll suggest you go for those with intimate sillage.
I want to believe a perfume or two from the ones reviews here must have caught your attention. Remember, the perfume you decide to purchase should be your decision to make. Nevertheless, don’t forget to consider the sillage, notes, longevity, and main accords of the perfume as you make that decision.
What you want from perfumes should be the major factor that determines your choice. However, I believe the perfumes reviewed here are among the best mild ones in the market. It will be good to invest in any of them today.
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