5 Tips for Finding the Perfect Perfume for Your Wedding Day

When it comes to your wedding day, you'll want to smell as amazing as you'll surely look. That's why finding the right fragrance is just as important as picking out your dream wedding dress. Before you start spritzing, you'll need to know when to shop, how to test out various perfumes, and what will determine the best scent for your body. You—and everyone who catches a whiff—can thank us later.

1. When you embark on shopping for a wedding-day fragrance, go in the afternoon, when your sense of smell is at its peak.

2. Find your fragrance type. Are you "fresh" (i.e., a fruity floral) or "warm" (e.g., a spicy musk)? Picking one will help you tailor your search, says Chris Wyatt, head of global education at Jo Malone.

3. Don't be a follower. Body chemistry can change the way a perfume smells, so what works for your BFF—or your favorite celeb—may not work for you.

4. Skip the blotting strips—because you won't know how a scent smells on your skin until it's, well, on your skin. Aim the atomizer at pulse points like your wrists, neck, and décolletage. And limit yourself to two scents per shopping trip to avoid olfactory burnout.

5. Sit with it. Most perfumes take at least half an hour to dry. And until one does, you won't be able to smell the top, middle, and base notes. So take a little walk before you commit.

And if buying perfume over-the-counter doesn't do the trick, why not try a custom blend? Hello, you're personalizing your cocktail—why not your fragrance? Bespoke perfumer Sarah Horowitz just launched Original Scent (from $99) helping brides and grooms create totally one-of-a-kind wedding fragrances. You can even have yours made into a unity candle for your ceremony. Love that!

Clockwise from top: Elie Saab Le Parfum eau de toilette, $75, neimanmarcus.com; Stella McCartney L.I.L.Y. eau de parfum, $100, sephora.com; Victoria's Secret Beauty Love Is Heavenly eau de parfum, $42, victoriassecret.com; Michael Kors Gold Rose Edition eau de parfum, $98, michaelkors.com; Salvatore Ferragamo Signorina eau de parfum, $74, nordstrom.com

—Written by Brides

Salvador Dali Sun & Roses (2013): Solar Rose, I'm In Love

Ever since I visited the Salvador Dali museum in St. Petersburg, Florida and I am hooked at all things Salvador Dali. I sampled all his fragrances and then went home to Amazon and purchased them all--even the female ones. Now, we are ushering in a new fragrance from the same line

While roses are usually associated with fresh, early-morning dewiness in garden-rose type of perfumes, or on the contrary nocturnal depth in darkly handsome rose interpretations, Salvador Dali Parfums are launching a solar rose composition from April 2013 called Sun & Roses...

The musky fruity-floral eau de toilette is signed by perfumer Dorothée Piot of Robertet who also did Crazy Kiss by Salvador Dali, Memoir Woman by Amouage, Chambre Noire by Olfactive Studio, L'Occitane Fleur Chérie and Pivoine Flora, amongst others.

The line offers many feminine, carefree and vibrant line of fragrances that sing lively upbeat notes of celebration, love and happy times. Sun & Roses is in perfect tune with this fragrance collection designed for the modern and active young woman: a bottle and a fragrance full of life, an arty and creative look.

"Sun & Roses eau de toilette is that unique happiness of summer so spontaneous and luminous, like the hot pink that adorns the flacon and a solar sensuality full of energy and desire which irradiates from within every women, all at the same time."


Designer Salvador Dali has 45 known perfumes. The earliest edition was created in 1985 and the newest is from 2013. Salvador Dali fragrances were made in collaboration with perfumers Antoine Lie, Dorothee Piot, Alberto Morillas, Olivier Pescheux, Michel Almairac, Sidonie Lancesseur, Philippe Collet, Martin Gras, Mark Buxton, Evelyne Boulanger, Karoline Vieth, Henri Bergia, Philippe Romano, Gerard Anthony, Guillaume Flavigny, Emilie Bouge, Celine Ellena, Delphine Lebeau-Krowiak, Francis Kurkdjian, Daphne Bugey, Ilias Ermenidis and Thierry Wasser.

The brand underlines the fact that the fragrance is meant to be easy to use on an everyday basis, expressing "a youthful yet chic and self-assertive femininity"


Perfume opens on top notes of pink grapefruit, bergamot, and crunchy apple. The heart rests on a bouquet of fresh roses together with powdery violet and delicate lily of the valley. Base notes are more Oriental with white musks, cedar wood, vanilla and sandalwood.

Via press release

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