Selection quizzes
Perfume selection quiz for people who dislike sweet scents
A quiz can help explore alternatives to sweet scents, but a non-sweet preference needs more detail than one answer. Use HUME's fresh or woody directions as starting points and inspect each result's full notes.
A HUME Fragrance buying guide
Avoid the wrong assumption
Not choosing Sweet does not guarantee every match will smell unsweet to you. Fragrances can include warm or fruity impressions across several broad directions.
Use an exclusion example
Keep a note of what feels too syrupy or dessert-like. Compare the results with that specific dislike rather than banning every ingredient associated with warmth.
Check the later scent
If a candidate sounds promising, test how it develops. A quiz cannot establish your sweetness threshold or tell you how a finished composition will feel after its opening.
Try this before you buy
For every quiz match, write the note or impression that could conflict with your sweetness preference.