Summer Selection

How to choose a summer perfume

A summer perfume is chosen for its ability to accompany the heat without ever weighing it down. You want it luminous and immediate, carried by notes that come alive on skin warmed by the sun: bright citrus, white flowers, fruity or solar accords. Yet lightness takes nothing away from longevity. At Nicolaï, the fragrances of the season rest on worked bases, woody or musky, that extend the brightness of the opening hours far beyond a fleeting freshness. A good summer perfume is not a diluted one: it is a composition designed for the season, where vivacity holds over time.

A summer selection that goes beyond freshness

Our summer selection is not limited to citrus. It brings together several faces of the season, so you can match your fragrance to every mood and every moment. Lovers of pure freshness will find lively, invigorating waters, from Mediterranean citrus to the Japanese yuzu of Eau de Yuzu. The eaux de toilette Fig-Tea and New York unfold a more solar signature, between tea, fig and jasmine on one side, sparkling citrus and wood on the other. For summer evenings, joyful gourmands such as Pavlova or Macaron Bourbon wrap the skin in a luminous sweetness. As many summer scents to explore as there are moods in a day.

A unisex summer perfume, for women and men

At Nicolaï, a summer perfume is not chosen by gender, but by affinity. All these fragrances are unisex, worn just as easily by men as by women, designed to come alive on the skin rather than to follow a convention. The freshness of a summer scent lends itself naturally to sharing, in the city, on holiday or on a journey. Whether it is a summer perfume for women or a summer perfume for men, it is the same creative freedom that speaks, that of a house composing for the skin and not for an aisle.

From freshness to Intense Eau de Parfum

A summer perfume can take many forms. The lightest are found among our Eau Fraîche, built on woody bases that hold the most volatile notes, and our Cologne, heir to the citrus tradition. Our Eau de toilette strike a more airy balance between freshness and presence, while our Intense Eau de Parfum reveal the finest raw materials in all their richness, for a trail that lasts from morning to evening. Lovers of raw material will find in our Perfume Extract the most opulent expression of our savoir-faire. For every moment of summer, there is a matching intensity, and a trail that is yours alone.

The luxury of substance in a summer perfume

What sets a Nicolaï summer perfume apart comes down to a standard that knows no season. Every formula is created entirely in-house by Patricia de Nicolaï, the first woman perfumer to found her own house, in our laboratory at the Palais-Royal in Paris. The raw materials rank among the finest in the world of perfumery, often used in overdose for the sheer pleasure of beauty, then assembled by hand in France. It is this consistency, from creation to production, that makes freshness itself a truly exceptional object: a luxury perfume in the truest sense, carried by the heritage of seven generations of perfumers and the freedom of an independent haute parfumerie house.