My first choice is always safe, botanical, synthetic free perfumes that do not contain alcohol denat. My second choice are options that use some nature identical synthetic molecules in addition to botanicals.
Because there are only a handful 100% botanical options on the market, I have also included options that do use alcohol denat and those that use “saf-er synthetic” options at popular request.
While "safe-er" synthetics don't include well known hormone disruptors like phthalates, parabens, lilial or musk ambrette, they do contain synthetic fragrance ingredients that don't have current safety data, are derived from petroleum and their impact on our health is virtually unknown.
Fragrance
Wyld Notes perfected clean fragrance when they launched a line of 5 scents that smell amazingly like a truly fine fragrance, but with zero synthetics, toxins or fillers. They also source regeneratively & organically grown botanicals, which is the sweet cherry on top!
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Wyld Notes
BOTANICAL PERFUME
other clean options:
has alcohol denat
no alcohol denat
oil based
While botanical based perfume is the cleanest option, I understand that some people want a synthetic option that is safe-er than conventional. While we don’t have a lot of safety data on newer safe synthetic molecules, DIME stands above the rest because they use organic alcohol that is not denatured, making it just a little bit clean-er than the others. It's also conveniently found at Ulta.
DIME
other safer synthetic options:
“SAFER” SYNTHETIC PERFUME for her
amazon FIND (also sold at target): Good Chemistry (all ingredients are found on the product pages of their website, but not on the bottles)
When it comes to cologne, ESAS Spiced Woods hits the sweet spot of rugged, but clean. Made with A warm blend of creamy spices and rich coconut meets grounding cedarwood and patchouli, with hints of nutmeg and ylang ylang.
