Choosing a fragrance

Comparing fragrances in the miyana.™ collection

Comparing fragrances in the miyana.™ collection

Most of the collection's decisions happen between two perfumes in the same family. Here is where they actually differ, in the notes. The pairs below are the ones currently listed; the perfume listing has the full current set.

Three citrus scents, three different shapes

Aqua Trace is the wet one: green apple, lemon, bergamot and mint into freesia and orange blossom, with cedarwood and vetiver underneath. Tropic Echo is the softest: bergamot, mandarin and lemon over a green apple floral heart and musk, amber and cedarwood — no mint, no vetiver, so it reads quieter and rounder. No. 22 is the sharpest: yuzu rather than lemon, and a blue lotus and nutmeg heart over sandalwood.

If you like Aqua Trace's green apple, Tropic Echo shares that note and drops the mint. If you like No. 22's crispness, Aqua Trace has the same lift with more floral weight.

Two ways to read oud

Oud Presence is oud as a perfume built around it: mandarin, blackberry, raspberry, pink pepper and saffron on top, then Damask rose, peony, violet, refined oud and cinnamon bark, landing on amber resin, benzoin, vanilla and sandalwood. It is layered and sweet-edged.

Etheric Oud is oud as the first thing you meet — agarwood, rose and incense open the bottle, with raspberry and saffron in the heart over amberwood and birch. It is smokier and much less sweet.

Want the third one? Amber Eclipse is the amber route: saffron, bergamot and nutmeg into rose, lily of the valley and patchouli, with musk, amber and agarwood beneath.

Four sweet fragrances, four directions

  • Auraberry — berries. Bright red fruit over violet and jasmine, then musk, amber, vanilla and oakmoss.
  • Vanilla Whisper — vanilla from the first spray. Lavender, cacao and ginger give lift to a layered vanilla heart and a deep vanilla absolute base.
  • Ember Cherry — smoke and leather. Sour cherry and saffron, then osmanthus, leather, olive and apricot over smoke, woods and cypriol.
  • Midnight Trace — coffee and licorice. Pink pepper, orange blossom and pear, then coffee, jasmine, bitter almond and licorice over vanilla woods.

These four are the clearest case for buying one and trying the rest. Which of the four sounds most like you?

Put two side by side

The listing lets you select up to three fragrances and open them together in the compare view, with the notes stacked so the differences line up. If you are choosing between two, that is faster than reading both pages.

Or buy several at once

The bundles are the collection arranged by instinct rather than by family — a fresh edit, a gourmand half-dozen, an oud quartet, a wardrobe octet — if you would rather try a spread than commit to one bottle.

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