17 Best Perfumes for Teens That Are Ideal for Back-to-School Season
What better time to look for the best perfumes for teens than during back-to-school season? Back-to-school is all about a fresh start. It's a blank slate, a new page in a notebook, a chance to reinvent or refresh yourself. And, yes, one of the easiest ways to reinvent yourself is with a new back-to-school perfume!
Maybe you're looking for one scent to define the entire school year and become your signature fragrance. Maybe you want to expand your perfume collection with a few new bottles for school days, date nights, and weekend hangs with your friends. If you're heading to college, you might feel like your go-to high school scent just doesn't fit you anymore. Totally normal! Fragrance is one of the easiest ways to change up your vibe from year to year or even day to day; think of how cozy you feel when you wear a warm vanilla scent, or how a fresh, green, or citrus perfume wakes you up in the morning.
Scrolling through #PerfumeTok can be really overwhelming, as there are so many scents to choose from. Do you want a body mist? A perfume oil? What's the difference between eau de parfum and eau de toilette? There's a lot to learn, but finding a signature scent or building a collection should be fun, not stressful. Head to the mall and spend some time smelling different things, noting what you love and what you really don't like. Ask your friends, siblings, or parents if you can steal a spritz of their fragrance. Perfume smells different on everyone, so what smells amazing on your BFF might not work for you, and vice versa!
From splurge-worthy designer scents to classic favorites to budget-friendly oils with a cool “IYKYK” factor, we've rounded up the best perfumes for teens that are ideal for back-to-school season! Happy smelling!
Our Top Picks
- Best Everyday Scent: Marc Jacobs Daisy, $128
- Best Budget Perfume: Nemat Amber Oil, $21
- Best Celebrity Perfume: Kylie Jenner Cosmic 2.0, $54
- Best Gourmand Perfume: Rare Beauty Rare Eau de Parfum, $75
- Best Skin Scent: Victoria's Secret Bare Eau de Parfum, $80
- Best Floral Perfume: Tocca Florence Eau de Parfum, $86
- Best Body Mist: Glossier Sandstone Body Spritz, $35
- Best Splurge: Dior Miss Dior Essence, $164
Shop all the best perfumes for teens below:
Best Celebrity Scent: Kylie Jenner Cosmic 2.0
Yes, it feels like every celebrity has their own perfume these days, but some of them are really great! Kylie Jenner's luxuriously rich, juicy amber floral fragrance lasts all day but never feels sticky or heavy. It would be perfect during the fall and winter and totally delicious for date nights.
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Boy Smells Coco Cream
Wanna smell like you're on a tropical vacation every single day? You can when you spritz on Coco Cream. As its name suggests, it's a blend of beachy coconut, tonka, and white flowers with a fruity twist, conjuring up visions of sunny days and swimming pools.
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Best Gourmand: Rare Beauty Rare Eau de Parfum
Rare Beauty's first-ever perfume is a gourmand with a twist. Ginger adds a bright, zesty burst to the opening before the fragrance settles into a relaxed blend of caramel, vanilla, and pistachio notes. We also love the cute orb-like bottle, which was designed with accessibility in mind.
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Kayali Eden Sparkling Lychee 39 Eau de Parfum
Sweet, fruity, and sparkling with fun, Kayali's Eden Sparkling Lychee 39 is one of the flirtiest scents we've ever smelled. It opens with cheery lychee notes before fading into a lovely, romantic floral heart.
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Best Skin Scent: Victoria's Secret Bare Eau de Parfum
A skin scent is exactly what it sounds like: a fragrance that is crafted to smell like, well, your skin. Glossier's You is one of the most popular options, but we're partial to Victoria's Secret Bare, a lovely, soft blend of woods and musk.
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Ellis Brooklyn Peaches Hair & Body Mist
Once a mainstay in locker rooms and backpacks, hair and body mists have made a major comeback in recent years. It's a lighter way to wear fragrance, so if you're scent-sensitive but still want to wear something, a body mist may be the way to go. This delicious blend of bright peach and sweet orange flower is easy to wear every day.
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By Rosie Jane Rosie Perfume Oil
If you prefer a scent that stays close to the skin with a more delicate sillage (or how “loud” a fragrance is), a perfume oil may be right for you. By Rosie Jane's Rosie is a lovely, simple skin scent with soft, fresh notes of white musk and rose.
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- Fragrance Type: Musk
- Notes: White musk, rose
- Sizes: 0.23 oz
Best Floral Perfume: Tocca Florence Eau de Parfum
This lovely white floral scent has been beloved since it launched in the mid-2000s, and if you typically gravitate toward floral fragrances, you'll love its blend of gardenia, jasmine, tuberose, and woods. Florence is perfect for everyday wear because it's noticeable but not loud or overpowering; it smells exactly like wearing a pretty floral sundress feels!
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Sabrina Carpenter Cherry Baby Eau de Parfum
It's probably not surprising that Sabrina Carpenter's fragrance line is as sweet and cheeky as she is. She's got a few different fragrances under her belt, including one called Me Espresso, but we're fans of the delicious Cherry Baby, a rich and ultra-sweet gourmand with notes of cherry (you guessed it!), brown sugar, and patchouli.
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- Fragrance Type: Gourmand
- Notes: Cherry, apple, brown sugar, patchouli
- Sizes: 1 oz
Best Budget: Nemat Amber Oil
Nemat oils have a seriously devoted fanbase, especially for the Amber Oil, which smells clean and fresh but also warm and spicy depending on your body chemistry. Layer it with your favorite perfumes to give them more depth, lasting power, and complexity, or wear it alone and get ready for a lot of “What are you wearing?” comments.
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- Fragrance Type: Amber
- Notes: Amber
- Sizes: 0.33 oz
Best Splurge: Miss Dior Essence
Miss Dior is one of Dior's most popular, bestselling scents, and this new iteration of the scent is a sweet, syrupy, fruity floral with lots of jammy blackberry notes atop elderflower and jasmine notes. Think of it as Miss Dior's theatrical sister who wears lots of bright colors and looks like she stepped out of Emily in Paris. Actually, Emily Cooper would probably really love this perfume.
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Ariana Grande LOVENOTES Plush Vanilla Eau de Parfum
You can't have a roundup of the best perfumes for teens without a vanilla scent, and Ariana Grande's new LOVENOTES vanilla fragrance is just as plush as its name, like wearing your comfiest, softest sweater or sweatpants on a chilly fall day.
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Best Body Mist: Glossier Sandstone Body Spritz
For a light, fresh daily spritzer, try Glossier's Sandstone, a lovely mix of floral orange blossom and zesty, green bergamot notes that brightens up the morning or works well as a mid-day refresh scent. And isn't the pale jade green bottle so pretty and calming?
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- Fragrance Type: Fresh
- Notes: Orange blossom, bergamot
- Sizes: 3.38 oz
Orebella Eternal Roots Eau de Parfum
Bella Hadid's fragrance line, Orebella, creates some of the most unique yet wearable perfumes around. Its latest launch, Eternal Roots, opens with fruity lychee and raspberry notes, but this isn't your run-of-the-mill fruity fragrance. As you wear it, Eternal Roots settles into earthy vetiver and birch notes for an organic, grounded feeling.
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Best Everyday Perfume: Marc Jacobs Daisy Eau de Parfum
This award-winning perfume is a forever favorite, especially for teens and college students. Daisy has a light, fresh appeal with notes of strawberry, violet leaf, and jasmine; while daisies themselves don't have a scent, if they did smell, they'd definitely smell like this. Plus, the bottle just couldn't be cuter.
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Gucci Flora Gorgeous Gardenia Eau de Parfum
Another award-winning fragrance to add to your vanity. Gucci’s Gorgeous Gardenia perfume smells exactly as the name suggests. Just imagine walking through a magical floral garden filled with blooming white gardenia and lilac jasmine flowers. It also includes a splash of brown sugar for a touch of extra sweetness.
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Burberry Goddess Eau de Parfum
Do you love, love, love vanilla? Then this is the perfume for you! Burberry Goddess is formulated with not one, not two, but three different vanillas for a gorgeously warm, inviting trail of scent. It'll definitely turn some heads.
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- Fragrance Type: Gourmand
- Notes: Vanilla, lavender
- Sizes: 0.34 oz, 1 oz, 1.6 oz, 3.3 oz, 5 oz refill
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