Wedding perfumes

How to choose your perfume for the big day

The perfect notes for a bride

White flowers take centre stage: orange blossom (the bridal symbol par excellence), jasmine, tuberose, lily of the valley and peony. For a more modern touch, white musks and light ambery notes add brightness and quiet sensuality. Our suggestion: Ame de fleur Liquide Imaginaire

A new perfume or your signature fragrance?

Our advice as a niche perfumery is to choose a new fragrance, dedicated to that day alone: it will become "the wedding perfume", able to take you back to the altar with every spray, on anniversaries and in special moments. POwder Love Juliette has a gun plays this role beautifully.

Longevity: from the ceremony to the reception

A wedding day can last 12-15 hours: choose an Eau de Parfum or an Extrait with good base notes, and entrust a handbag-size bottle to one of your witnesses for a touch-up before the reception. Biancolatte Zero Molecole, with its delicate vanilla notes suspended between the pure, white notes of milk and the intense ones of caramel, is an excellent choice.

When and how to try your wedding perfume

Start looking 2-3 months before the wedding: try the fragrances on your skin, wear them for whole days and watch how they develop. We suggest starting with a discovery kit of floral and white-flower fragrances, so you can choose calmly and without pressure. On the day itself, apply the perfume to your pulse points, hair and veil: the sillage will follow you through every embrace.

Your wedding perfume with Maison de Parfum

Since 2006 we have guided brides through the choice of their fragrance in our Bologna boutique: a ritual as moving as the dress fitting. Write to us or come and see us: together we will create your most beautiful olfactory memory.

Frequently asked questions about wedding perfumes

Which notes suit a wedding perfume best?

The best-loved are white flowers: orange blossom, jasmine, tuberose, lily of the valley and peony, often over a base of white musks, delicate vanilla or pale woods. Luminous, romantic notes that never intrude when you embrace someone.

How long before the wedding should I choose my perfume?

Two to three months ahead is ideal: you have time to try several fragrances on your skin, on different days, and to buy the full size without rushing. Avoid choosing it in the week of the wedding.

Is it better to wear my usual perfume or a new one for the wedding?

Many brides choose a new fragrance, one that will stay bound to that day forever: such is the power of olfactory memory. If your everyday perfume is part of your identity, though, make the most of it with a richer application ritual.

How do I make my perfume last all through the wedding day?

Apply it to moisturised skin on the pulse points (neck, décolleté, wrists, behind the knees), spray a light veil of it over your hair and your veil, and entrust a handbag-size bottle to a witness or bridesmaid for a touch-up before the reception.