Emil Élise

Choose Happiness

Premium$$$, 3 of 5
Emil Élise asks about $174 for 100 ml
100 mlabout $174

The houseUnisex

VersionEau de Parfum

Juicy lychee and bergamot over rose and hibiscus with a smoky incense edge, ending on warm vanilla, amber and musk.

Emil Élise says

You’ll smell lychee, bergamot, pear, peony, Blackcurrant Bud, rose, immortelle (everlasting flower), incense, hibiscus, leather, vanilla, amber, Hölzer and moschus.

More from Emil Élise’s description

It also mentions Hibiscus petals, Vanilla cream and Musk.

The house’s page

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The drawn Choose Happiness bottle

When you spray ittop notes

As it settlesheart notes

What staysdry-down notes

Choose Happiness’s scent picture, a draft: lychee, bergamot, pear, peony, blackcurrant, rose drawn so far; dashed outlines where nothing is drawn yet

When you spray ittop notes

Choose Happiness, when you spray it: Lychee, Bergamot, Pear, Peony, Blackcurrant, Lemon, Geranium

As it settlesheart notes

Choose Happiness, as it settles: Rose, Immortelle, Frankincense, Hibiscus, Leather, Isoeugenol (clove)

What staysdry-down notes

Choose Happiness, what stays: Vanilla (vanillin), Amber, Hölzer, Moschus, Musk, Patchouli, Iso E Super (pencil shavings on velvet), Coumarin (new-mown hay)

What’s inside it

What Emil Élise names

LycheeBergamotPearPeonyBlackcurrant BudRoseImmortelle (everlasting flower)IncenseHibiscusLeatherVanillaHölzerMoschusMusk

What the label names

27 scent ingredients on the label, familiar names first.

A label must name certain ingredients, most of them ones that can cause allergies; some houses print more. It is never the whole recipe.

6 citrus4 herbs & lavender8 florals2 woods2 sweet3 spices1 musks1 powder

Citrus6

Bergamot oilLimoneneLemon oilTerpinolenealpha-TerpineneCitral

Herbs & lavender4

PineneLinalyl acetateLinaloolTerpineol

Florals8

Geranium oilRose oilBenzyl salicylateHydroxycitronellalCitronellolGeraniol (rose)Rose ketonesGeranyl acetate

Woods2

Patchouli oilIso E Super (pencil shavings on velvet)

Sweet2

Vanillin (vanilla)Coumarin (new-mown hay)

Spices3

Eugenolbeta-CaryophylleneIsoeugenol (clove)

Musks1

Hexadecanolactone

Powder1

alpha-Isomethyl ionone (powder puff)
2 more lines on the label, not there for the smell

Not for the smell2

AlcoholBenzyl alcohol

The label, as printed on the house’s page

Our match of the notes

Shares its notes

Interlude WomanAmouage · shares bergamot, rose, immortelle, frankincense and 3 more
Hibiscus MahajádMaison Crivelli · shares blackcurrant (cassis), rose, hibiscus, leather and 2 moreabout $441 for 100 ml
Club de Nuit ImperialeArmaf · shares lychee, bergamot, peony, rose and 3 more$50 for 105 ml · about a quarter of Choose Happiness’s about $174
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Delina La RoséeParfums de Marly · shares lychee, bergamot, pear, peony and 2 more$400 for 75 ml
Delina ExclusifParfums de Marly · shares lychee, bergamot, pear, rose and 3 more$430 for 75 ml
Beloved WomanAmouage · shares rose, immortelle, frankincense, leather and 2 more
Rose CoutureKhadlaj · shares lychee, bergamot, pear, rose and 2 moreabout $32 for 100 ml · about a fifth of Choose Happiness’s about $174
Rose 01Swiss Arabian · shares lychee, bergamot, peony, rose and 2 more$68 for 50 ml
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DelinaParfums de Marly · shares lychee, bergamot, peony, rose and 2 more$410 for 75 ml
Replica Springtime in a ParkMaison Margiela · shares bergamot, pear, blackcurrant (cassis), rose and 2 more$170 for 100 ml · about the same as Choose Happiness’s about $174
Elysium Pour HommeRoja Parfums · shares bergamot, blackcurrant (cassis), rose, leather and 2 more$380 for 100 ml · about twice Choose Happiness’s about $174
EmpressaPenhaligon's · shares bergamot, blackcurrant (cassis), rose, frankincense and 2 more$330 for 100 ml · about twice Choose Happiness’s about $174
PassionElizabeth Taylor · shares bergamot, rose, frankincense, leather and 2 more
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Matched by the notes each house names. A shared note is not a promise they smell alike.