12 Perfumes to Wear This Spring if You Don’t Want to Smell Like Flowers

If you ever want to feel “safe and calm and just beachy and chill,” take a cue from Sofia Richie Grainge and try Jo Malone’s Wood Sage and Sea Salt Cologne. (Grainge calls it her “signature scent.”) Its aroma is both clean and woodsy that’s joyful and sophisticated.

It’s never too early to manifest sunny days spent on the beach. Beach Walk blends a fruity bergamot and ylang-ylang with rich coconut milk and sultry white musk for a fresh fragrance with real sun-kissed warmth.

Autumne West, National Beauty Director at Nordstrom, said this 20-year-old perfume is making a major comeback. “It’s a light fragrance that is truly universal, anyone can wear it,” says West.

Ever sit amongst nature and feel immediate stress relief? (The Japanese call it forest bathing.) Functional fragrance brand The Nue Co. bottles the experience with Forest Lungs, a woody, smoky supplement with clean resin and fresh citrus to reduce stress and anxiety by utilizing “olfactory chemistry and patented ingredient technology to simulate phytoncides, which are produced naturally by trees.”

“Smells like open windows. Feels like stepping out of a long winter,” says DedCool of Fragrance Number 05 “Spring.” The unisex fragrance combines heavier masculine notes with bright bursts of citrus.

A fresh scent with a burst of citrus makes CHANEL’s Paris – Biarritz a truly vibrant fragrance that’ll make you radiate pure energy.

Sandalwood combines with vetiver and amber to create a warm, earthy scent that’s romantic, but not overpowering in sweetness. A subtle and sexy second-skin scent exudes.

Fan-favorite fragrance Gypsy Water is a down-to-earth genderless scent that blends notes of pine, sandalwood, lemon, vanilla and bergamot. It’s warm, woodsy and deliciously spiced.

This editor-favorite perfume contains an award-winning scent made of a musky blend of white ambers that’s been described as “uplifting,” “bright” and “ethereal.”

There’s nothing like crisp and refreshing fruit on a warm spring day. Bottle that sensation up and you’ve got Dossier’s Fruity Honey, a ripe and delectable fragrance with peach, blackcurrant and honey balanced with rich vetiver.

Sensual and elegant are two ways to describe the scent of Queens & Monsters, a warm woodsy fragrance by Henry Rose. Perfumer Pascal Gaurin describes it as having a “very fluid and multifaceted identity,” and “a game of contrasts between brightness and sensuality, a dialog between the sparkling, zesty freshness of the petitgrain and the creamy, milky facet of the sandalwood.”

Perfumer Jerome Epinette was “inspired by the playful, invitingness of zesty citrus” to create PHLUR’s Tangerine Boy. Adding ginger and black pepper to the grounding in a base of spicy amber and cool, green moss results in a vibrant smell unlike anything you’ve ever experienced.