Fragrance note · Amber and resins

Benzoin perfumes

A resin from styrax trees in Southeast Asia. It smells warm, balsamic and vanilla-like, and it sweetens and anchors a perfume’s base.

We stock 100 perfumes with benzoin, from 43 houses. By how the houses present them: 56 unisex, 32 for women and 12 for men.

Best-selling perfumes with benzoin

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Notes paired with benzoin

In the perfumes we stock, these notes sit beside benzoin most often.

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Questions about benzoin

What does benzoin smell like?

A resin from styrax trees in Southeast Asia. It smells warm, balsamic and vanilla-like, and it sweetens and anchors a perfume’s base.

Which perfumes with benzoin sell best at 10ML?

Our best-selling perfumes with benzoin right now are Ombre Nomade by Louis Vuitton, Terre d'Hermès by Hermès and Le Male Elixir by Jean Paul Gaultier. We stock 100 perfumes that contain it in all.

Which notes go well with benzoin?

Across the perfumes we stock, benzoin is most often paired with labdanum, jasmine, vanilla, tonka bean and ylang-ylang.

Is benzoin a men’s or a women’s note?

Both. Of our 100 perfumes with benzoin, 56 are presented as unisex, 32 for women and 12 for men.

Can I try a benzoin perfume before buying a full bottle?

Yes. Every perfume here is decanted by hand from the original bottle into a travel atomiser, in sizes from 3ml, so you can wear it for days before you commit to a bottle.