Marc Jacobs · 2025

Perfect Absolute

Premium$$$, 3 of 5

The houseFor women

VersionEau de Parfum

Caramelized fig over blooming jasmine absolute, settling into a rich, warm amber.

Marc Jacobs says

You’ll smell caramelized fig accord, jasmine absolu and rich amber accord.

More from Marc Jacobs’s description

It also mentions Luscious blooming jasmine absolu blend.

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When you spray ittop notes

As it settlesheart notes

What staysdry-down notes

Perfect Absolute’s scent picture, a draft: fig, jasmine, amber, bergamot, patchouli, oakmoss drawn so far; dashed outlines where nothing is drawn yet

When you spray ittop notes

Perfect Absolute, when you spray it: Fig, Bergamot, Bitter orange

As it settlesheart notes

Perfect Absolute, as it settles: Jasmine

What staysdry-down notes

Perfect Absolute, what stays: Amber, Patchouli, Oakmoss, Iso E Super (pencil shavings on velvet), Galaxolide (musk), Vanillin (vanilla), Coumarin (new-mown hay)

What’s inside it

What the label names

26 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.

4 citrus3 herbs & lavender6 florals4 woods3 sweet1 spices2 musks1 powder1 green1 earth & moss

4 more lines on the label, not there for the smell

Not for the smell4

AlcoholWaterBenzyl alcoholPropylene glycol, not in Ingredients yet

The label, as printed on the house’s page

Our match of the notes

Shares its notes

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