Welcome to the Late Spring/Early Summer Fine Fragrance Trend Stories Report, tracking and discussing the hottest trend stories from late April – to mid June 2025. This Fine Fragrance Trend Stories Report maps over 70 new global launches. Each trend story features future focused ingredient insights that will help your creative team develop new scent ranges across all fragrance sectors from fine fragrance to personal care, home fragrance to home care. In 2025 solar freshness meets gourmand warmth, florals meet minerals, and skin-like musks meet tropical playfulness. We can expect a continued focus on sustainable naturals, biotech ingredients, and unexpected sensory textures that make fragrance feel not only like a scent, but like an experience lived on the skin. In this report ‘Freshness Reborn’ is a key concept explored in the Magnetic Blue and New Dawn stories with citrus, herbs, and greens renewed through mineral, botanical, and resinous twists. Soft Touch and Floral Muse are part of the olfactive macrotrend ‘Sensuality Refined’ which pushes florals into modern textures and celebrates the intimacy of skin musks and the chemistry of attraction. It’s all about ‘Escapist Joy’ with the Sunny Escapes and Feeling Summer trends which capture solar, tropical, and holiday moods – bright, playful, and uplifting. Daringly Delicious redefines gourmand excess – playful yet luxurious tapping into the ‘Indulgence Elevated’ trend driver. Report Contents. • A Trend Snapshot plus key new launches, collections and themes shaping the landscape. This report forms part of our suite of macro forecasts looking at fragrance trends and forecasting the new focus notes and ingredients for the future. TrendAroma’s macro forecasts are produced with a global outlook ensuring they have broad relevance across all regional markets. Our trends are validated by data, industry examples and our specialist trend tracking methodology. Want the report presented to your team? No problem – just email: rozwicks@trendaroma.com
• Key Themes + Notes of Now & Next – 5 macro driven trend themes
• Fragrance Trends: Men – 5 micro driven trend themes
• Fragrance Trends: Women – 5 micro driven trend themes
• Fragrance Trends: Niche – 5 micro driven trend themes.
• Trends Stories: Each fragrance story is covered by an introduction summing up the key essence of the trend, followed by information on the new launches – where we breakdown top, heart and base notes and launch information, plus take a look into ‘what’s next’ with the ‘future fragrance focus’ section discussing inspirational notes and ingredients to be used when developing new fragrance stories, collections and ‘trickledown’ sector launches.
Download the full report for top trend influences, new scent stories and a look into the evolution of these trends.
Fine Fragrance Trend Stories Reports