Women's Perfume

Longevity is mostly concentration — how much fragrance oil is actually in the bottle. Most designer eau de parfums sit between 15 and 20%. An eau de toilette can be as low as 5%. Every Stuga scent is blended at 20–25%, so a long-lasting perfume shouldn't fade by mid-afternoon.

The roll-on oil lasts longest of the three formats, because there's no alcohol in it to flash off. Full explanation: why your perfume fades by lunch, or long lasting perfume in Australia.

• Sweet and gourmand — passionfruit, orange zest, vanilla. Vanilla No. 313, our best seller, and Apple No. 341. Browse vanilla and gourmand.
• Soft florals — peony, rose, jasmine. Peony No. 211, Orange Blossom No. 207 and Desert Rose No. 209. Browse floral and jasmine.
• Fresh and citrus — bergamot, grapefruit, white tea. Bergamot No. 353, White Tea No. 203 and Neroli No. 437. Browse fresh and citrus.
• Warm and rich — saffron, amber, honey. Amber No. 235 and Honey No. 325. Browse amber and oriental.

Every scent on this page is hand-blended in a workshop in Moss Vale, NSW — not white-labelled, not decanted from someone else's juice. Small batches, filled and labelled here.

Vegan and cruelty-free, with no animal-derived musks or fixatives. The trade-off is a short register rather than seventy scents, and the occasional sell-out. The upside is a genuine 20–25% concentration.

Longer read: how these are actually made.

Every scent comes three ways at the same strength: classic eau de parfum spray, alcohol-free spray, or roll-on perfume oil. Same blend in all three — only the carrier changes.

The oil sits closer to the skin and lasts longest. The alcohol-free spray suits sensitive skin, and is the sensible choice if conventional perfume has ever stung or dried you out.

The 10ml Traveller is the honest way to gift a fragrance you haven't smelled on the person wearing it. Full strength, a few weeks of daily wear, and nobody has to blind-buy a 50ml bottle on a guess.

If you need one answer: Vanilla No. 313 is the most-gifted bottle we make, and almost nobody dislikes it. For something softer and more floral, Peony No. 211. Works just as well if you're buying for yourself and can't choose.

Nothing on this page is formulated for women. These are the scents women pick most often, which is a different claim entirely.

Plenty of men wear Vanilla No. 313 — sweet, gourmand fragrance has been worn by men in Europe for decades. Neroli No. 437 sells about evenly. If a scent works on your skin, it's yours. Here's why we don't split fragrance by gender — and the men's page is the same idea from the other side.