Two kinds of information, always labelled
Every perfume and comparison on the site mixes two different things, and we label each one so you can tell them apart:
- Brand description
- What the perfume house itself publishes: the listed notes, the scent family, the concentration and the launch year. We report these as the brand describes them, even when we’d describe the perfume differently.
- Editorial inference
- Our reading of the perfume: the one-line summaries, how two versions differ, and who might prefer which. This is opinion, and we mark it that way.
Where the facts come from
- Notes and scent family come from each brand’s own product pages and published descriptions. Brands usually highlight three or four key notes, not the full formula, so that is what we show.
- Launch years and perfumer credits come from brand material, checked against established fragrance references.
- Where sources disagree, as they do about who created some classics, we credit the perfumer most widely credited rather than guess at a longer list.
Scent families
Each perfume card is coloured by its scent family, a plain-English grouping of how a perfume smells overall:
- Fresh / spicy: bright, peppery, clean.
- Woody: cedar, sandalwood, vetiver; dry and grounded.
- Aquatic: marine and citrus notes; salty and airy.
- Floral: rose, jasmine, ylang-ylang and other flowers.
- Gourmand: edible notes such as praline, vanilla or almond.
- Amber: warm, resinous and often sweet; vanilla and coffee sit here too.
Eau de Toilette, Eau de Parfum and other versions
The same perfume name often comes in several concentrations. As a rough guide, an Eau de Toilette (EDT) is lighter and usually brighter, while an Eau de Parfum (EDP) is richer and often lasts longer. Brands don’t publish exact concentrations, and they frequently change the formula between versions rather than simply making it stronger. That’s why we compare versions side by side, as with Sauvage EDT vs EDP, instead of assuming the EDP is just a stronger EDT. For the full picture, read EDT vs EDP vs Parfum: what’s the difference?
“Marketed to men” and “marketed to women”
We group perfumes by how the brand markets them, because that’s how they’re sold and searched for. It isn’t a rule: anyone can wear anything, and plenty of the best discoveries sit on the “other” shelf.
Formulas change
Perfumes are reformulated over the years, so a bottle bought today may smell different from one bought a decade ago. We note the version and launch year for each perfume, and describe the version currently sold.
Corrections
If you spot something wrong, such as a note, a credit or a date, please tell us at info@worthaspray.com. We’ll check it, correct the page and update the date at the top.