Traditional perfumes appeared at the beginning of the 20th century and it has the following subcategories:
Single Floral: perfumes that have a dominant scent of just one flower.
Floral Bouquet: perfumes whose scent is a combination of several flowers.
Oriental or Amber: these have sweet and slightly animalistic scents.
Woody: made of agarwood, sandalwood, cedarwood, and vetiver which give of woody scents.
Leather: scents that are reminiscent of leather but made of scents of honey, tobacco, wood, and wood tars.
Modern perfumes started appearing after 1945 with inventions in synthesis and compound design:
Bright Floral: a combination of the traditional Single Floral and Floral Bouquet groups.
Green : a subgroup of a Chypre group which has an emphasis on scents of cut grass, crushed green leaf and cucumber.
Aquatic, Oceanic, or Ozonic : appeared in the 1980s. It uses calone for its base which is a synthetic scent that has marine and ozone nuances discovered in 1960s.
Citrus : large fragrance family with a citrus base. Consists mainly of “freshening” Eau de colognes.
Fruity: perfumes that have scents of fruits that are not citruses for instance peach, cassis (black currant), mango, passion fruit, and others.
Gourmand : perfumes with scents resembling "edible" or "dessert" flavors - vanilla, tonka bean and coumarin for instance.
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