Whether you and your man are stepping out in your Saturday night best or meeting other couples for casual happy hour martinis, you want to match your partner on scent and aesthetic levels. Fragrances can work together to complement and define a couple as much as they can fight and create awkward abrasions on each others’ scentspheres.
Check out these cute scent combinations, and let chemistry work in your favor— after all, alls’ fair in love and fragrance.
THE DATE: A long bike ride leading to shared appetizers at a waterside café and watching the sunset at the beach.
THE SCENTS: Clinique Happy For Men + Clinique Happy For Women
HIS: Clinique Happy for Men is an energized masculine scent, resting on notes of citrusy lemon, mandarin, orange and grapefruit over delightful bursts of floral and warm guiac wood and cypress. It is cool, crisp and casual, with an optimistic stamina and comforting attraction.
HERS: Clinique Happy perfume is a floral fruity fragrance for women, top notes of orange, mandarin, plum, grapefruit, apple and bergamot given weight by lush orchid, freesia, lily-of-the-valley, rose, and warm mimose, magnolia, amber and musk.
THE DATE: An afternoon picnic in Central Park with a bottle of wine and fresh cheeses from his favourite French deli.
THE SCENTS: Allure Cologne For Men By Chanel + Allure Perfume For Women By Chanel
HIS: Allure cologne for men is a sensual fragrance that combines the freshness of greens, spice of peppers, strength of wood, and the warm sensuality of the tonka bean. It is a scent with something for every man, combining notes of mandarin, lemon, peach, rose, jasmine, cedar, vanilla, and sandalwood for a balanced, easy fragrance.
HERS: Allure by Chanel for women is also a multi-faceted fragrance, a rich blend of oriental and floral notes. It is made up of a simple recipe with a profound effect – its mix of bergamot, mandarin, water lily, jasmine, vetiver and vanilla is low maintenance but high impact.
THE DATE: Open mic night at a dark jazz club, shared cigarettes, a lush dinner of oysters— and lots of red wine.
THE SCENTS: Prada Infusion d’Iris For Women + Prada Infusion d’Homme For Men
HIS: Infusion D’Iris Cologne by Prada is as elegant and luxurious as the brand brings you to expect. The scent is classic, lean, and as stylishly comfortable as a good blazer. A modern mix of neroli, iris, vetiver and cedarwood, this cologne is understated— but totally sexy.
HERS: Prada Infusion is sleek and contemporary, sophisticated and elegant. Top notes of mandarin and orange blossom are fresh and inviting, leading to a rich heart of iris, cedar and vetiver. Infusion D’Iris is feminine and fresh, hinting at an element of adventure under its classic makeup.
THE DATE: Salsa dancing, late night cocktails, a 3am impromptu street dance on the walk home.
THE SCENTS: Calvin Klein Euphoria Perfume For Women + Calvin Klein Euphoria For Men
HIS: CK Euphoria for Men is a spicy and carnal mixture of ginger pepper, amber, patchouli, suede and zesty Japanese sudachi, softened by aquatic raindrop accord and made extensively masculine by added notes of Brazilian redwood and black basil.
HERS: Euphoria by Calvin Klein for women is sensual and exotic, wild fruits mixing with lush florals for a sophisticated, dangerously lusty fragrance. Rich notes of pomegranate, persimmon, lotus blossom and champaca flower mix with deep blends of green crisp, black orchid, and black violet, and a creamy accord mixed with amber and mahogany wood in the base makes this scent uber sensual.

