Traditional categories of Perfume

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- Single Floral: Fragrances dominated through a specific flower; in French known as a soliflore. Example: Serge Lutens Sa Majeste La Rose.)
- Floral Bouquet: Compound of several flower scents. Examples: Houbigant Quelques Fleurs, Jean Patou Joy.
- Amber or "Oriental": Large magnificence offering sweet, barely animalic scents of ambergris or labdanum, regularly combined with vanilla, tonka bean, plants and woods. Can be more desirable through camphorous oils and incense resins, evoking Victorian era "Oriental" imagery. Traditional examples: Guerlain Shalimar, Yves Saint Laurent Opium, Chanel Coco Mademoiselle.
- Woody: Fragrances dominated by way of woody scents, commonly agarwood, sandalwood, cedarwood, and vetiver. Patchouli, with its camphoraceous scent, is usually observed in these perfumes. Traditional examples: Myrurgia Maderas De Oriente, Chanel Bois des Îles. Modern: Balenciaga Rumba.
- Leather: A family of fragrances offering honey, tobacco, wooden and wooden tars in the middle or base notes and a heady scent that alludes to leather-based. Traditional examples: Robert Piguet Bandit, Balmain Jolie Madame.
- Chypre (IPA: [ʃipʁ]): Meaning Cyprus in French, this includes fragrances constructed on bergamot, oakmoss, and labdanum. Named after oakmoss fragrance (chypre powder), popularized with the success of François Coty's Chypre (1917). Modern example: Guerlain Mitsouko.
- Fougère (IPA: [fu.ʒɛʁ]): Meaning fern in French, built on a base of lavender, coumarin and oakmoss, with a pointy herbaceous and woody fragrance. Named for Houbigant's Fougère Royale, many guys's fragrances belong to this own family. Modern examples: Fabergé Brut, Guy Laroche Drakkar Noir, Penhaligon's Douro.
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