While we believe that anyone can wear any scent, there are certain fragrance families and compositions that tend to be particularly favored by women. Here’s our regularly updated selection of top perfumes for women—an easy win :)

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With our most popular niche perfumes for women, you not only get a regularly updated selection of highly favored luxury scents—but our Woodberg perfume team will also guide you through what we think you should absolutely try. If you're into special and high-quality fragrances—or think you might be—this is where you'll find the right options, very likely to please you or the person you're shopping for!

Niche perfumes are a fascinating part of the fragrance world, existing outside the mainstream. So what makes them so special? While conventional perfumes often target the masses, niche scents reflect the unique vision of individual perfumers. Creativity and exclusivity are top priorities. 

These perfumes are often crafted in small, artisanal batches and sold only in select shops. To emphasize their uniqueness, niche scents incorporate more unusual notes and rare ingredient combinations.
The creation of these often expensive fragrance oils is complex, so only selected ingredients are used. Examples include oud, amber, ambrette, pistachio, orris root, and papyrus. In contrast, mainstream perfumes usually rely on more common, affordable essences.

Additionally, niche perfumes stand out for their unconventional facets. Rather than sticking to the traditional top, heart, and base notes, they tend to have bolder, more complex compositions. These formulas often contain a higher concentration of fragrance oils, resulting in more intense and premium scents.

All of this helps explain why niche perfumes are generally more expensive than their mainstream counterparts.

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Although niche fragrances emphasize individuality, they still offer a wide range of options. While we believe gender categories in perfumes are outdated, there are still many scents in the niche segment that align with traditional ideas of femininity. Here you’ll find a selection commonly referred to as 'for women'.