What’s Your Summer Signature Scent? Take the Quiz

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What’s Your Summer Signature Scent? Take the Quiz

A fragrance quiz might not let you smell through your phone (yet), but it’ll get you surprisingly close. For all the clever things technology can do, you’d think someone would’ve sorted scratch-and-sniff screens by now. Apparently not. Until someone gets on that, a fragrance quiz is the next best thing.

Take our really quick and fun Scentbird fragrance quiz below, discover the scent family that suits you best, and we’ll point you towards the fragrances most likely to become your summer signature. It’s quicker than blind-buying, considerably cheaper than regretting it, and much more reliable than choosing a bottle because the packaging looked nice. Also, just think about it: Somewhere out there, a fragrance family is wondering where you’ve been all this time.

Please note that all this is just to find your summer signature scent. Expect more of these fun interactive scent quizzes for the next season and beyond, because life is too short to wear just one perfume.

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FRESH SUMMER SIGNATURE FRAGRANCES

Not every fragrance survives summer. Some wilt the second the temperature hits 30°C, while fresh scents? This is literally what they trained for. Bright citrus, salty sea air, crisp herbs, and anything that makes you want to dive headfirst into the nearest body of water- your sun-scorched skin is their natural habitat.

MALIN+GOETZ Bergamot

Bergamot does exactly what you’d expect a summer overachiever to do: keeps its cool while everything else melts. Sharp, green citrus and a flash of spice prove “fresh” in our Scentbird vocabulary is never, ever a synonym for boring.

SANCTUARY Vaquita Dolphin

Pear, redcurrant, sea salt, and waterlily are just as playful together as the creature that inspired this scent. Better still, every spray shines a spotlight on the critically endangered vaquita, proving smelling good and doing good can absolutely share the same bottle.

FLORAL PERFUMES

“Florals? For spring? Groundbreaking.” Sure, Miranda said it. But now that The Devil Wears Prada 2 is back, let’s clear something up: florals aren’t just for spring. They bloom all summer, all winter, and frankly, they never left our shelves or our skin.

GUCCI Bloom

Three floral heavyweights: tuberose, jasmine, and Rangoon Creeper walk into one giant perfume cauldron (or whatever they mix perfumes in) and somehow outdo each other. Gucci Bloom even introduced Rangoon Creeper to modern perfumery, which is actually pretty groundbreaking.

LE JARDIN RETROUVÉ Tubéreuse Trianon

I’d wear it for the excuse to say Tubéreuse Trianon out loud, it sounds every bit as chic as it smells. Every bit as chic-sounding as it is smelling, this crisp tuberose wrapped in wintergreen and jasmine is eager to show you how florals can have plenty of bite.

WOODY SCENTS

Come follow us into the woods. Not the horror-movie kind, we invite you to the ones that smell of warm cedar, creamy sandalwood, fresh-cut timber, and the sort of peace your group chat could never.

SCENTS OF WOOD Sandalwood in Oak

Sandalwood in Oak is a transcendent scent of sage ritually melded with guaiac wood and musk, all of which is accented with the dry, mystical aroma of sandalwood. There’s also burnt sugar and vanilla, coming together for a dose of subtly sweet yet very sexy perfume.
“It is fascinating to me that the art of perfumery, which is thousands of years old, continues to find ways of reinventing itself. Scents of Wood is the embodiment of that never-ending process. With Sandalwood in Oak, I was given complete freedom to paint the portrait of one of my favorite notes, and explore its delightful complexity all the way to the amazing final touch brought by using organic alcohol aged in an oak barrel. It was such a fulfilling creative process.”Mackenzie Reilly
Perfumer

HERETIC Dirty Hinoki

You always wanted a cool cabin in the woods. We all did and still do. This scent doesn’t hand out free cabins, but it gives you the feel, and that’s not a small feat. Hemp and hinoki take care of all things earthy; lemon cuts through with freshness, while black pepper and coriander make sure nobody mistakes it for basic. After all, this is a Heretic creation.

GOURMAND Fragrances

If the fragrance quiz took you here, you’re in for a treat. Because whoever said you can’t have your cake and eat it clearly hadn’t discovered gourmand fragrances. You get zero calories and a million and one compliments. The first one’s on me.

COMMODITY Gold+ Bold

Everything that made Gold addictive gets turned up several notches. Vanilla, amber, and sandalwood arrive dripping with saffron, nutmeg, patchouli, and so much extra indulgence that they rightfully earn the “+”.

AKRO Bake

Someone finally stole the smell of walking past your favorite bakery with absolutely no intention of stopping. I mean, we say someone, but that’s Olivier Cresp, so of course he did this. Lemon cupcake, praline, and vanilla make resistance futile. Give in, give up, and add it to your queue already.

SCENTBIRD QUIZ

Take the Real Scent Quiz

The quiz you just took? AI helped build that one, and while it did its best, it still thinks every fragrance description should sound like it was written by a robot who’s recently discovered adjectives. I seriously rewrote it at least six times when I just gave up. Because there’s a real fragrance quiz.

And yes, the real Scentbird scent quiz is another story. Every question has been thoughtfully crafted to understand your style, your routine, and the way you actually want to smell, before matching you with fragrances you’ll genuinely love. And love you will; I just know it.

Before you leave, one more thing.

When you know exactly what you want from a fragrance, why go hunting for another one? Just edit the one you’ve already got.

That’s where Scentbird’s Fine Fragrance Editors come in. Think of them as the cheat codes of perfumery. Five layerable blends that let you brighten, soften, warm up, deepen, or cozy up any fragrance in your collection. Wear them on their own, stack them together, or pair them with your favorite perfume to make it feel even more you. And if a scent in your collection isn’t quite living up to the hype? These might just save it.