8 Best Lilac Perfumes (2024) | Scent Selective (2024)

Amouage Lilac Love Review

Amouage is an uber-luxurious brand whose perfumes befit royalty. The company dates back to the 1980s, and its products exemplify Omani’s century-old traditions and prowess in fragrance making. Nathalie Lorson and Elise Benat created this intriguing lilac fragrance perfume in 2016.

Amouage Lilac Love Eau de Parfum for women unfurls softly with sweet, powdery lilac notes, quickly transforming into a cocoa-laden heart before progressing into a dry powdered floral. It’s a slightly gourmand fragrance with hints of chocolatey cocoa, heliotrope, lilac, and vanilla.

The perfume kicks off with a bouquet of florals, among them heliotrope, lilac, gardenia, and jasmine. It then plunges into a heart featuring cacao, orris, and Tonka, their bitter, powdery aroma melding with the floral essences beautifully. Eventually, everything ends on a soft, creamy patchouli, vanilla, and sandalwood bed.

Lilac Love’s confident aura, longevity, top-notch quality, and gorgeous aroma make this a great all-purpose scent. It’s not overly sweet, and the projection and sillage are well-balanced. The only drawback is the price – it’s quite expensive.

What we liked

• Well-balanced floral scent
• Suits all purposes and occasions
• Comes in a magnificent bottle

Gucci Guilty Pour Femme Review

Gucci released this decadent oriental floral in 2010 for joyous, glamorous, daring, and sensual females who enjoy the clubbing scene. Gucci Guilty combines vitality, maturity, and a retro vibe beautifully, creating a scent that’s blissful, exciting, and indulgent – a guilty pleasure indeed!

This EDT features notes of mandarin, pink pepper, peach, lilac, geranium, amber, and patchouli and was composed by Aurelien Guichard. Soft, sweet, and subtle, the fragrance has a unique warm depth and balance that makes it feel cozy, almost familiar.

Gucci Guilty opens bright and peppery, then dries down to a powdery and musky floral scent. Upon spraying it, you’ll immediately catch alluring whiffs of lilac, jasmine, and zesty mandarin. Lilac is at the core and quite prominent initially, then turns green on combining with citrus and other florals, finally settling to a deep floral aroma.

If you’re in search of a signature scent, this classic fragrance fits the bill. It’s inoffensive and easy to wear. The sillage is decent, too, lasting an average of 3 hours. This bottled bliss is perfect for nights out, the office, dates, and special occasions, plus it’s ideal as a fall staple.

What we liked

• An all-time favorite
• Classy, elegant, sexy, and ultra-feminine
• Compliment getter

White Linen By Estee Lauder Review

Crafted by Sophia Grojsman in the late 1970s, this fresh and delicate fragrance captures the purity of white linen or the cool elegance of beautiful white florals and green accents. It’s super clean, soft, and remarkably powerful.

White Linen is a classic perfume featuring a heady combination of aldehydes, florals, earthy tones, and green notes. Lovely oakmoss sits at the base giving the perfume its earthiness and endurance. While it smells wonderful, the perfume has a touch of soapiness and might come off as somewhat overwhelming to some.

White Linen’s performance is impressive (newer formulations might not wear so well). It’s perfect for the office due to its extreme freshness and clean scent that smells even better after it warms up on your skin. While it opens rather sharply, thanks to the massive dose of aldehydes, the EDP settles into a comfy, warm, soft fragrance.

What we liked

• An adorable, intoxicating scent
• Great for lovers of vintage fragrances
• Unique, uplifting aroma

Aerin Lilac Path EDP Review

Lilac Path (2013) is not merely a perfume with a lilac scent; rather, lilac is the key note. This aptly-named soliflore captures the experience of strolling past a lilac bush. In fact, the perfume’s inspiration was a lilac shrub. The brand Aerin belongs to Estee Lauder’s granddaughter, Aerin Lauder.

When you sniff Lilac Path, you get the lovely lilac aroma accompanied by green tones from angelica seed oil, galbanum, and honeysuckle. It also blooms with orange flower and creamy jasmine. Overall, it’s fresh, light, airy, and artfully layered – a stunner!

Lilac Path is perfect for spring. Romantic, pure, soft, and delicate, it offers medium projection and decent longevity. The fragrant perfume comes at a steep price, but if you are in the market for an authentic lilac fragrance, your search ends here.

What we liked

• Gorgeous, refined, and utterly feminine
• A quintessential lilac scent
• Neither too heavy nor too light

Guerlain Idylle EDP Review

Idylle is introduced as a “shower of flowers” and an “ode to life and love.” These evocative descriptions paint a vivid picture of the tender, sensual, and enduring composition that is Idylle Eau de Parfum.

Idylle by Guerlain features lilac but centers on rose. Guerlain credits perfumer Thierry Wasser with formulating this perfume. Here, gorgeous fresh lilacs mingle with Bulgarian rose, sweet jasmine, juicy raspberry, litchi overtones, peonies, and lilies, all anchored by woods and musk. The result is a delightful, refined, nectary, warm, musky floral accord fit for spring.

This is a beautiful, well-balanced concoction. It opens cheerfully and ends in a rich, warm, musky rose. And while the majestic lilac note is not that prominent, it gives this perfume the feel of spring, plus its powdery essence is hard to miss. Additionally, the fragrance never loses its freshness throughout its transition. It remains clean and polished up to the drydown.

When it comes to performance, this beautifully-packaged, all-season scent is great on longevity though the projection is not loud. It’s perfect for casual settings, day and night.

What we liked

• Fresh and creamy
• Luxurious aroma
• Its demure, alluring, classy, and undeniably feminine

Dolce Gabanna Floral Drops Review

Now, Floral Drops EDT doesn’t contain lilac notes. However, noses Laurent Le Guernec and Jean-Marc Chaillan did a fantastic job recreating the sweet lilac aroma in this composition that captures the aroma of dewy-fresh flowers.

Floral Drops is utterly charming. The perfume unfurls with neroli, citrus, and papaya flower head notes. The heart comprises the artsy blend of white blooms that results in the lilac scent – amaryllis, water lilies, and daffodils; all resting above a musky and woodsy base.

This perfume is light, refreshing, and mildly sweet, with a slight trace of soapiness. It projects rather softly, making it excellent for an office environment and ideal for people who gravitate toward fresh fragrances.

What we liked

• Great for users sensitive to lilacs
• Decent staying power
• Attractive perfume bottle

Issey Miyake A Drop d'Issey Review

This perfume is described as “a drop magnifying the unsuspected beauty of nature.” It embraces you with a bouquet of lilac accentuated with solar notes, musk, and creamy nuances from almond milk.

Nose Ane Ayo crafted this fragrance to evoke the inviting aroma of dew-laden leaves and petals. She created the lilac accord using green technology for minimal ecological impact.

A Drop d’Issey welcomes you with a rain accord, sheer rose at the top, lilac and solar notes at the core, and vanilla, amber, and cedar at the base. The solar, enveloping, and alluring lilac is the note that defines this beautiful fragrance.

The enduring EDP comes in a striking flacon reminiscent of springtime rain. Shaped like a raindrop, the transparent orb holds blue-hued contents.

What we liked

• Radiant, joyful, and enticing
• Long-lasting trail
• Ethically sourced and sustainably created

Tocca Giulietta Review

If you love perfumes with a story, this is one. A love story was the inspiration behind Tocca Giulietta. Actress Giulietta Masina was the love of Federico Fellini, and the fragrance captures the lovebirds’ passage to Corsica.

A clean, powdery, lilac aroma characterizes the naturally sweet fragrance. The opening is a juicy burst of green Granny Smith apples, which evolves into a gentle floral and a fantastic drydown.

Giulietta’s warm and clean floral notes are a compliment magnet, while its classic English country garden vibe marks it as the perfect spring/summer scent. The EDP lends itself to daytime use and is ideal for special occasions like date nights.

This is a gorgeous lilac perfume with an outstanding balance between sweet and floral. It’s not overly strong and leans more toward an intimate skin scent. Simply put, Tocca Giulietta’s subtle aroma will take you through the evening without upsetting your date.

What we liked

• Unique, chic, and decidedly feminine
• A classic, mature scent
• Universally appealing