Fragrance Files: The Best Boozy Scents That Will Intoxicate Your Senses

Who doesn't love a good drink? An alcoholic beverage punctuates almost every type of memory in our adult life. Whether its popping a bottle of champagne for celebrations, or sipping a smooth single-malt whiskey on the rocks after a stressful, long day, we associate so many memories to different types of booze. Of course, we all have our favourite little concoctions that add a little buzz in our steps and the same goes for fragrances! Some like their drinks refreshing and crystalline clear, while others prefer a smokier brew with lots of depth. BAZAAR is covering all things boozy to fit your adult beverage of choice. Don't worry, you won't leave the house smelling like you have just finished a bar crawl and guzzled your body weight in alcohol. If that were the case, then an atomizer of Jack Daniels might serve better than our picks.

Instead, we are looking at fragrances that uses boozy notes to take us back immediately to the experience of drinking certain liquors and the warm memories they hold. Even though boozy notes are more often found in male fragrances, there are plenty of female and unisex fragrances that utilize them too. But some male fragrances are so good that we can't help ourselves. This is definitely the kind of "borrowed-from-the boys" situation we love! Click through our gallery to discover your perfect brew (sans the hangover).

By Hanan Haddad

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By Kilian Straight To Heaven

<b>Never has a scent been so appropriately named. By Kilian will intoxicate you and send you straight to a rum-soaked heaven with this one. Dried fruits, vanilla and amber makes for a sweet surrender while earthy patchouli and crisp cedar balances the scent, preventing it from becoming too saccharine. Regardless on a man or woman, this is truly the scent of seduction! </b>

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By Kilian

Atelier Cologne Gold Leather

<b>Don't be fooled by the name. This unisex fragrance by Atelier Cologne is an opulent mix of rich rum and ripe plums, made extra sexy with the addition of leather into mix. It's a smokey glass of plum brandy for the lady who appreciates the finer things in life. </b>

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Atelier Cologne

Carolina Herrera CH Men Prive

<b>Buy CH Men Prive for your man with the secret agenda to steal spritzes of this sweet whiskey scent. Because trust us, you won't be able to help yourself. Luxurious whiskey accords with intense and sensual black leather, sugared with tonka bean and benzoin, this boozy scent is easily unisex. The flask bottle design is a nice touch too. </b>

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Carolina Herrera

Commodity Whiskey

<b>Housed in a minimalist black bottle and aptly named "Whiskey", this might seem like a straightforward offering from Commodity. However, you'll be surprised to know that this aromatic blend doesn't contain a single whiskey note. Instead, it uses smokey oak and sweet amber with spicy sage and cinnamon to create the warm feeling of sipping on a glass of sweet whiskey. The perfect signature scent of a sultry woman at her prime! </b>

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Commodity

Fresh Sake

<b>Fresh delivers the fruity, floral nuances in sake drinks perfectly with a juicy peach opening that leads to an osmanthus and musk heart. Lily of the valley and lotus adds a greater floral tone and ginger adds some subtle spice. You'll feel as if you are a geisha blissfully sipping sake in a Japanese garden. </b>

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Fresh

Penhaligon's Juniper Sling

<b>If your choice of poison is a cool glass of gin & tonic, then this is the scent to try. This cult favourite from Penhaligon's opens bright and fresh with juniper berries. It retains it's refreshing nature thanks to an orris root heart and vetiver base, adding a bitter, green element to the juice. It's perfect for a hot day and for those who want to smell clean yet distinct. </b>

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Penhaligon's

Maison Martin Margiela Jazz Club

<b>Picture a smokey room full of dapper men in tuxedos and ladies draped in silk and jewellery, drinking and being merry. This fragrance encapsulates that to a tee. Honeyed tobacco and sweet rum is balanced with earthy clary sage and vetiver while pink pepper adds life and laughter to scent. Spicy, sweet and smokey? Yes please! </b>

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Maison Martin Margiela

Nasomatto Baraonda

<b>Nasomatto is a niche perfume house from the Netherlands that is all about unique and potent offerings. Baraonda is the most intoxicating scent of aged whiskey. They have captured not just its sweet booziness but also the smokiness of the wooden barrels and the warmth of the molten liquid in your belly. The juice is extrait de parfum concentration so it lingers on and on all through the night. </b>

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Nasomatto

Mirko Buffini Firenze No. 31

<b>Italian niche perfume house Mirko Buffini Firenze serves us a boozy oriental fragrance for women and men that is just stunning. No. 31 has a creamy brandy opening with vanilla and aromatic lavender, roughened by patchouli. The notes are so masterfully blended that you can barely discern them. But the result is a heady aroma that is sultry, complex and uber luxe; perfect for a multi-faceted modern woman. </b>

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Mirko Buffini Firenze

Etat Libre d'Orange Remarkable People

<b>Etat Libre d'Orange is an artsy French perfume house that prides themselves in unique olfactory creations. Remarkable People uses a bizarre mix of effervescent champagne and spicy cardamom that somehow just works! It also opens with a biting grapefruit that fizzles into a creamy sandalwood towards the end. The result is a sparkling concoction that's a definite mood lifter. Wear this when you're in the mood to celebrate!</b>

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Etat Libre d'Orange