Modern VS Traditional Fragrances Types
Perfume is considered as a huge world that everyone searches for his/her distinctive perfume and the perfume world contains so many secrets. Every perfume is unique and has its own charm, but it is impossible to dispense with perfumes, as they represent love for women and men. Certainly, modern and traditional perfumes work to modify the psychological state and mood of a person that has a bad day. So you might wonder what is the difference between Modern Vs Traditional Fragrances ?
Traditional Fragrance Families:
The traditional classification emerged around 1900 and became popular due to giving a captivating attraction and infinite warmth to the individual, and it includes amber/ Oriental, woody, leather, chypre, single floral and floral bouquet.
Amber
Despite the many varieties of amber fragrances, there is one thing that all amber scents share: their unique aura. Ambers blends notes of vanilla, flowers, and animals to create warm, sensual scents. This intoxicating fragrance is ideal for colder climates. To get a sense of warmth, wear an amber in the winter.
Woody
Woody fragrances are a natural scent with a masculine edge. These powerful fragrances use notes of patchouli and sandalwood to create scents that evoke images of dense forests or a bed covered in moss. These scents are perfect for nightlife, as they are warm and dry.
Leather
Another family of fragrances delivers masculine scents. These scents blend notes of honey, tobacco, and wood with wood tars to remind you of a warm leather jacket or a leather sofa in a smoky living room. Also, you can expect to find vetiver, smoke, tobacco, and burnt wood. These fragrances are great for men who want a masculine, classy scent.
Chypre
Chypre is the French term for Cyprus. These scents are Mediterranean-inspired, with bright citrus top notes and a warm, woody, mossy foundation. Chypres can be leathery or smoky and green, but they are also very difficult to identify.
Foug
Fougere fragrances fall somewhere on the border between woody and fresh. Fougere means Ofern-like in French and, like woody fragrances, fougeres are inspired by scents from nature. Though these are typically sweeter, fresher, and less intense than woody fragrances. Expect to find notes of lavender, oakmoss, and coumarin. This family member is represented by dark green on the fragrance wheel.
Single Floral
This scent is known as soliflores in French, and it highlights the scent of one flower. Although it is not common to find single flowers in nature, this doesn’t necessarily mean that they don’t exist. The Single floral gives a masculine touch. Parfumiers have created ways to blend the scent of flowers with musky and leathery notes.
Floral Bouquet
Instead of single florals, which emphasize the scent of one flower, floral bouquet perfumes emphasize the scent of many flowers. Many men believe that flowers are only for females, which is not true.
This category of fragrances (Traditional) will appeal to those who are open to creating beautiful and complex scents by combining the freshness and softness of florals with more masculine notes.
Modern Fragrance Families:
In the pervious part, We explored the traditional fragrances and now you will continue in our topic modern vs traditional fragrances.
Technology allowed the creation of new scents. In 1945 a new set of categories was created for these fragrances and known this days as modern fragrances that consist mainly of five categories bright floral, green and aquatic, as well as fruity and gourmand.
Bright Floral
this category contains the scent of one flower or a mixture of scents from several flowers. Florals are often thought to be more suitable for women than men. Plus Floral colognes are masculine in their scent, but they contain floral notes that soften them. They’re perfect for daytime and warmer months. My favorite perfumes are Dior Homme, Burberry Brit for Men.
Green
The traditional chypre scents of oakmoss and patchouli, including bergamot, , and patchouli, are lighter versions of green fragrances. This is the reason why the name says so. These scents have earthy tones that include grass, moss, and leaves. Moreover, These scents have the sophistication and luxury of old-school chypres but with a freshness perfect for the summer heat. The couple that I love is Creed Green Irish Tweed and Hermes Un Jardin Sur Le Nil.
Aquatic
Imagine yourself on a white sandy beach, the sun shining off the blue water and the sun shining down. Aquatic scents also known as oceanic and ozonic, capture the perfect beach day feeling in a bottle. These fragrances are lightweight and crisp so you can feel fresh during the hot summer days. There are two options: the Davidoff Cool Water For Men, which is the most popular, or the Creed Virgin Island Water, which is more expensive.
Citrus
Citrus scents are great for warmer months, just like aquatics. These fragrances feature grapefruit and lemon as the main characters. They are sweet, tart, and playful. Acqua Di Paradi Cologne Spray for Men, and Eau Savage from Dior are two must-haves.
Fruity
You may not like aquatics or citrus, but you will need fruity fragrances for the summer. This scent represents by orange on the fragrance wheel. These fragrances are based on non-citrus fruits and include notes such as passion fruit, mango, peach, and mango. You can also find Jo Malone’s unisex Pomegranate Noir cologne and Millesime Imperial from Creed.
Gourmand
We will end the fragrance family by Gourmand, these fragrances contain notes of food-like scents such as vanilla, chocolate bean, and tonka bean. Some fragrances also contain synthetics that mimic food scents. Although they are still relatively new, you might be interested in some elegant, solid gourmand scents.
DKNY Be Delicious, for example, cleverly mixes coffee and apple notes. It sounds strange but it’s a pleasant scent that can be worn every day. Rochas Man, with its basenotes vanilla and mocha, is a more sensual option.
Fragrances Wheel
The Fragrance wheel is a new method of identifying fragrances and is used widely in retail and the perfume industry. Michael Edwards, a consultant to the perfume industry, created the technique in 1983. This new scheme was designed to simplify the classification and naming of fragrances and show the relationships among each class.
There are five standard families: Floral, Oriental Woody, Fougere, and Fresh. The former four families are more traditional, while the latter include newer, brighter, and cleaner-smelling oceanic and citrus fragrances. Except for the Fougere, all the families can be sub-grouped and organized around a wheel.
Because they are large families of fragrances, the Fougere is located at the center of the wheel. They often contain elements from all four families. Chypres, as a class is more difficult to place because they are located under the Oriental and Woody families. Guerlain Mitsouko is a classic chypre, and will be placed below Mossy Woods. Hermes Rouge, a more floral chypre, would be placed underneath Floral Oriental.
Osmoz identifies eight major families. They are: Chypre (feminine), Citrus (floral), Oriental (feminine), Aromatic (masculine), Citrus (oriental), Woody (masculine). Each of these olfactive family is then divided into many subfamilies.
This article and the fragrance wheel will give you an overview of the main groups of fragrances (Modern Vs Traditional Fragrances) as well as how they complement each other. Contact us for more information.