Choose a perfume for children and teenagers

Are you looking for a gift idea for your children? Choosing a fragrance for a teenager or a child requires careful thought and consideration to make sure you make the right choice.

How to choose a perfume for a child or teenager?

Choosing a fragrance can be tricky, and it's a lot more complicated than choosing a piece of clothing, for example. Indeed, far from being a simple accessory, perfume will act as a true extension of personality.

Childhood is a period of discovery, and adolescence is a stage of life marked by self-discovery, during which character develops and asserts itself. It is therefore very important to choose a perfume that is adapted to the teenager or child to whom you wish to offer it.

The teenager can often be influenced by his or her circle of friends, so it is common to change fragrances often during this period of life, without becoming attached to a single perfume. In this case, the curious teenager will be sensitive to something new.

A well-chosen perfume will act like a second skin, with notes that change according to the PH of the skin. It is therefore difficult to predict in advance the evolution of a perfume worn by a child or teenager and to find the right fragrance from the first purchase.

However, to help you choose the right perfume for a teenager or child, you will first need to define which olfactory family it belongs to:

 

 

What you need to know before choosing a fragrance for a child

Above all, you have to know that a perfume is not chosen by chance. When a fragrance attracts us, or gives us an emotion, it is because it corresponds to our olfactory heritage, which is the sum of all the olfactory and gustatory experiences recorded in the past.

This heritage is built from a very young age and is anchored in our memory, especially before the age of 7. Then, it is enriched through experiences, travels, contact with nature, tastings and other olfactory and gustatory discoveries that we make.


What you need to know before choosing a perfume for a teenager

In addition, adolescence is a troubled time for the young boy or girl. This phase is marked by the first emotions, by the will to please and by the concern for the eyes of others. A well-chosen fragrance will help teenagers gain self-confidence and seduce more naturally.

In general, teenagers (apart from a few strong personalities) like to wear rather light fragrances. Moreover, not all children and teenagers will be attracted by sweet, fruity, floral or gourmand connotations. 

Some children want to wear adult fragrances at a very early age (perfume for men and perfume for women), in order to speed up time and grow up faster or because they identify strongly with them.

Future adults would rather be attracted to dynamic, rather fresh and lively scents, such as Eau de Cologne, eaux fraîches, and fragrances with a citrus, marine or green accord.

Eaux de Cologne regressive and reassuring are also very suitable, as they do not project too quickly into maturity. However, you must also be careful not to choose perfumes that are too infantile.

 

 

Perfumes for children and teenagers

Perfumes for children and teenagers: mixed or unisex fragrances, fresh scents with citrus notes often combined with aromatic notes :

  • Light Blue Dolce Gabbana
  • O Lancôme
  • Eau Hermès
  • Eau d’Orange Verte Hermès
  • Eau Cartier
  • Eau Givenchy
  • Les Eaux Fraîches Roger Gallet
  • L’Eau Issey
  • Les Aqua Allegoria Guerlain
  • Chance Chanel
  • Les Eaux de Cologne Atelier Cologne (Orange sanguine)

Perfumes for children and teenagers, for boys:  

  • CK2, Ck One, Ck One Shock for him Calvin Klein
  • Brit pour Homme Burberry
  • Only the Brave Tattoo Diesel
  • Man Hugo Boss

Fresh and light fragrances with fruity notes for children and teenagers

Some teenagers tend to want to wear a perfume that makes them feel like they're entering the adult world. So they may want fragrances that are always fresh or light, but often with fruity notes. Here are a few perfumes that meet these criteria:

  • Eau du ciel Annick Goutal
  • Ninfeo Annick Goutal
  • Petite chérie Annick Goutal
  • Ofresia Diptyque
  • Les Aqua Allegoria Guerlain

Gourmand and fruity perfumes for children and teenagers


In general, gourmand and regressive fragrances are very appealing to teenagers as they are very trendy at the moment. The choice is very wide:

  • La vie est belle Lancôme
  • La Petite Robe Noire Guerlain (avec toutes ses déclinaisons)
  • Idole Lancôme
  • Nina Nina Ricci
  • Luna Nina Ricci
  • Anaïs premier délice Cacharel
  • Mademoiselle Rochas Rochas
  • La Nuit de Trésor Lancôme
  • Amor Amor Cacharel
  • Mademoiselle Azzaro Azzaro
  • Dance with Repetto Repetto
  • Eau de Lacoste : Sparkling Lacoste
  • Bonbon Viktor and Rolf
  • Miss Dior Dior
  • Valentino poudré Valentino
  •  Loverdose Diesel
  • 1 million Eau de Toilette Paco Rabanne
  • L’eau en Blanc Lolita Lempicka

Various perfumes for children and teenagers

Here is a list of a few fragrances from different olfactory families, for children and teenagers:

In the brand Sylvaine Delacourte: 


Perfumes for children

Teenagers or children may also be attracted to versions specially designed for them, such as :

  • Little woman Ikks
  • Young Man Ikks
  • Jeune Homme Jacadi
  • Little sky Little Marcel
  • Mademoiselle Jacadi

It will be necessary to try the eau de toilette on the child’s skin before actually wearing it, and explain that it will be necessary to take some time to make it your own (cf. Testing a perfume). If they get compliments from people around them, it's an excellent sign that they have found their perfume of the moment.

Some classic baby perfumes

  • Eau Bonpoint
  • Ptisenbon Givenchy
  • Baby Touch Burberry
  • Baby Guerlain
  • J Jacadi
  • Eau de Senteur pour bébé Christine Arbel
  • Mon premier sent bon Christine Arbel

Generally speaking, there is no rule to follow when choosing a perfume for a child or teenager. The choice of perfume will depend on the taste, the olfactory heritage of each person, but also on the child's environment (the opinions of both can influence the choice of perfume). The perfumer should be very talented to work with baby, child or teenager fragrances, because this style of perfume must be worked in a light and delicate way.

 

Sylvaine Delacourte fragrances

Discover Sylvaine Delacourte's brand with her Orange Blossom, Musks and Vanilla Collections. You can try them thanks to the Discovery Boxes (5 Eaux de Parfum x 2 ml) and rediscover these raw materials as you have never smelled them before.