The 20 Best Summer Perfumes To Wear In 2023

This fan favorite features notes of lily-of-the-valley, rose, and soft musk, creating a delicate and vibrant aroma perfect for warm summer days. Bonus: The bottle is just as timelessly feminine as the scent. You can count on this eau de parfum to last on your skin all day, from brunching al fresco to dancing the night away.

If you’re looking for a scent that dazzles and captivates, Nest’s Golden Nectar is the pick for you. Inspired by Cleopatra the temptress, this floral, sweet scent blends orchid, amber, vanilla, and musk. Perfect for summer weddings and soirees, you won’t even need to catch the bouquet with this seductive scent on.

Le Labo’s Jasmin 17 mingles musk with jasmine, sandalwood, and vanilla—it’s a conversation-starting scent that’s got great projection and staying power. You can count on the concentrated eau de parfum to last you though city strolls and long nights out. The 0.5 and 1.7-ounce bottles are easy to apply and TSA-friendly, so you can stash it in your carry-on or purse for quick applications.

Perfume oil is highly concentrated, long-lasting, and hydrates the skin—a combo ideal for sweltering summer days. This one has a unique scent composed of jasmine, tea, and lemon and its sillage is sure to leave an impression.

This feminine blend of jasmine, wild berries, and violet starts off floral and rounds out with birch and cedarwood for a balanced, inviting scent. Because it’s an eau de toilette, you may find that the scent won’t last on your skin for more than a few hours, but we like this pick because it’s flirty and light.

You won’t have to imagine what a lush rainforest smells like after rainfall once you get a hold of this bottle. It combines cucumber, tropical grass, and patchouli for an invigorating, earthy, and restorative scent you’ll look forward to wearing. The cherry on top: Clean Reserve crafts its fragrances with sustainable, cruelty-free ingredients and wraps it all up in eco-friendly packaging.

This medley of bergamot, orange blossom, and coconut water is the perfect everyday scent for summer. Its sunny disposition makes it great on its own, but wearers love that you can easily layer it with other scents. Solar Bloom is radiant yet delicate, and versatile enough to mix with other floral fragrances for a one-of-a-kind scent.

Think of what would happen if you put the smell of freshly washed cotton sheets in a bottle. Hints of coconut make this body mist extra ethereal, as you picture yourself sunbathing on a freshly washed sheet spread on white sand. Spritz generously.

This is the type of scent you’ll stop someone in the street for to ask what they’re wearing; it sparks curiosity by exuding both sophistication and sensuality thanks to sandalwood, magnolia, and musk. It gives off this refined and luxurious ambiance that you’ll be instantly drawn to and want to wear every summer night.

This scent’s top notes of velvet pear and Calabrian bergamot aren’t overpowering but they’re strong enough to give you a bit of an energy boost to get you through any long summer day.

This fragrance features top notes of sweet pineapple, coconut water, and a burst of orange flower—it’s like the perfect beach day in a bottle.

Gift the man in your life a scent that’ll last through summer festivals, beach nights, and all the rendezvous in between. Spicy calabrian bergamot meets sensual vanilla for a sexy scent with great projection and longevity. It’s so good that it might be more for you than it is for him.