8 Best Smelling Apple Scented Perfumes

Apple is pretty popular as a note in perfumes. Most of the time, it is playing a supporting role, but it can be much more prominent. There are of course, many different varieties of apple, some more naturalistic than others. The type and its surrounding ingredients can go a long way to determining whether it is something beautiful, or an artificial smelling mess.

In this post, I want to provide eight examples of apple perfumes, done well. Each offers something a little different from the other, but all have a great apple front and center.

What are the Best Smelling Apple Fragrances for Her?

Great Daily Wear Perfume

Dkny Be Delicious By Donna Karan For Women. Eau De Parfum Spray 3.4-Ounce Bottle– This Donna Karan perfume is a very enjoyable sensory experience. It has a rich fruity and floral profile that gives off a playful and seductive energy throughout the day.

Be Delicious opens up with its dominant apple note, along with, grapefruit and cucumber. It is fresh, cool, and crisp from the start. The dry down is less tart and juicy, with the floral notes and some sandalwood coming through.

Easy to wear and pleasant all around. Notes include: apple, violet, grapefruit, cucumber and more.

Most Popular Apple Scent

Dolce & Gabbana Light Blue By Dolce & Gabbana For Women. Eau De Toilette Spray 3.3 Oz
One of the most popular fragrances for women. Light blue is airy, light, and subtle. Great for casual wear. From the start, Light Blue is a bright and shimmering perfume with a crisp apple note and tart lemon, providing the top.

It’s a very clean scent that loses some of its fruitiness and moves into more of an earthy floral. As it dries down, the rose note is particularly noticeable. The lemon and apple combo is pretty intense at the start, but comes through much more mellow later on.

Notes include: rose, apple, musk and jasmine. Light Blue while not a heavy perfume by any means, has great longevity, and can go all day on one’s skin.  My Review of Light Blue for Women

Versatile Apple and Floral Perfume

Nina By Nina Ricci For Women. Eau De Toilette Spray 2.7-Ounces – A beautiful blend of notes contained in that famous apple shaped bottle. It is a clean, sweet, and feminine perfume that works great for warmer months and is versatile enough to use for almost any occasion.

Nina has some light citrus, at the top, to go along with a sweet praline and apple duo. These are the main stars of the fragrance, with some additional peony and musk, once it has had time to settle.

This Nina Ricci perfume performs well and is highly versatile. It’s an easy to grab scent, that can fit in, on pretty much any occasion.

Juicy and Semi-Aquatic

Hugo By Hugo Boss For Women. Eau De Toilette Spray 1.3 Ounces– A juicy/aquatic type of perfume that is dominated by fruit notes like apple, berries, and peach. Hugo Woman is clean, soft, fresh, and has some light floral notes to complement the fruits.

The apple leads the way, with peach and melon coming through, to add a further soft deliciousness to the composition. It doesn’t have any marine notes, but that underlying aquatic feeling is still there.

I would chalk it up to the melon, hyacinth, and lily notes coming together. This one has been around for a long time now and still serves as a very nice daily wear.

Apple Brandy

Best Luxury Apple Scent

Acqua Fiorentina Perfume by Creed for women Millesime Spray 2.5 oz
A complex fragrance that is a light aromatic with layered notes of (some) floral and (mostly) citrus. This is the go to, if you like fruitier compositions.

Bergamot, lemon, and plum start off Acqua Fiorentina with a very bright and quite sharp citrus sensation. However, there is also a crisp apple note in the mix, which adds to the overall juiciness.

As it dries down, there is a hint of rose and carnation, which balances out some of the fruit overload. Plus, the cedar/sandalwood which sits at the base, and holds this whole thing together. Very much like, The Scent of Peace for Her by Bond No. 9.

Notes include: rose, Virginian cedar, lemon, sandalwood, carnation, bergamot.

Crisp Apple from Parfums de Marly

Parfums de Marly Parfums de Marly Layton by parfums de marly for men – 4.2 Ounce edp spray, 4.2 Ounce– So, Layton is technically a men’s fragrance, but it can come across a pretty unisex. Nonetheless, the apple note here is really great and worth a try by anyone.

It’s sweet and delicious, but not a candy-like apple. More crisp and realistic. With the apple, the other two main notes are vanilla and sandalwood. Giving Layton a creamy balance and a solid base to start from.

Very versatile fragrance that can be worn pretty much year round and in a variety of situations or occasions. The vanilla isn’t a heavy one and keeps this from being relegated to just the winter time. My Layton Review

Apple Juice Layering

Eden Juicy Apple by Kayali– Apple, berries, and lychee start this one of sweet, juicy, with a candy-like aroma beyond just the apple juice scent. It’s intense and one for those who like the really sweet perfumes.

The next phase will tone down, the apple will fully take control and you’ll get more influence from jasmine, as well. That being the case, the dry down period is a clean shampoo/body wash kind of influence.

On it’s own, this one is pretty good as a standalone perfume. However, I think that it’ll be one that is better served as a layering scent with other Kayali entries or your own unique combination.

Eden Juicy Apple has that sort of versatility, which can be a great addition to an apple lover’s collection. Full Review

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