Best Women’s Perfumes for Under $100

Hello to all my perfume lovers! Let’s explore some of the greatest women’s perfumes all under $100. Whether you are buying for yourself, your lover, your mother or your daughter, we will make sure to give you all something you, or she, will absolutely love!

If you are looking for the quick summary, you can go to the bottom and we’ll cover the quick facts in a table.

Acqua di Gioia

Head into summer perfectly with Acqua di Gioia by Armani. This aquatic and citrus scent transports you to a cute wooden boat traversing through the salted struck cliffs of the Amalfi Coast. This is a light summery fragrance that is inoffensive.

The notes:

1. On the surface you instantly get a squeeze of Italian lemon and some mint leaves. Not sure about you, but I am romanticizing sitting in a restaurant overarching the sea cliff sipping on a lemon spritz with a slap of a mint leave for a garnish. When you can’t have that, Acqua di Gioia at least can take you there.
2. Bringing the true essence of aquatic notes to this perfume, water jasmine floats through the surface of this perfume. It brings in the sweet floral touch of this feminine scent.
3. Lastly, in the background we experience a soft woody note coming from cedar. This touch is the perfect finish to an marine scent blending everything together with a subtle balancing base.

The perfume lasts about 4-6 hours on the skin and can use a light overspray when you want it to perform stronger. Overall if you like Coco Mademoiselle by Channel or Light Blue for Women by D&G then you are sure to love this one!  

At $93 for the 3.4 oz, this is a great perfume from the house of Armani. Armani fragrances always stand up to the test and have proven themselves over and over again to be at the forefront of mass market fragrances that people love.  

Lattafa Yara

Next up, another amazing daytime summer scent. Yara by Lattafa has taken the world by storm in 2024. It is the top selling perfume for a reason. This soft and youthful perfume smells like a powdered cotton candy. If the color pink had an aroma, it would smell like Yara.

The notes:

1. At the forefront of this perfume we get instant whiffs of vanilla, which usually do not come until the perfume settles for a little while. The heliotrope does a wonderful job bringing it out early for a never ending vanilla sensation in this fragrance. It is a beautiful vanilla cream topped on top of a orange pound cake.
2. This perfume is something you can totally eat! To continue with the food analogies, the gourmand accords brings a sugary candy like scent to the surface. Almost like the top of a flan or frosted coffee cake. It blends vanilla, caramel and sweets effortlessly together.
3. Finally, the true vanilla arrives. This is truly a vanilla perfume. There is vanilla from beginning to end and it stays there the entire time.

This perfume easily lasts 10 hours on the skin and performs moderately well. For a daytime warmer weather fragrance this is the perfect combination of light sweet aromas and performance.

I would recommend this perfume for any girl who wants to wear pink as much as be pink. This is a truly youthful feminine scent that can last anyone all day long.

For around $35, this is an amazing perfume that is well worth the price tag.

Khamrah

Lets turn a new leaf and head over to a fall winter night time fragrance that blows expensive fragrances out of the park. Let me introduce you to another Lattafa fan favorite, Khamrah.

This is a uniquely unisex fragrance that is boozy in all the right ways. If you want something truly and singularly feminine, you may want to sit this one out. If you want a complex, spicy, and accessible perfume then keep reading.

The notes:

1. “Jingle bells, jingle bells jingle all the way…” Open this Christmas in a bottle. If you do not know what Christmas smells like, let me explain. On the first spray you get that cinnamon, nutmeg and freshly baked warm apple pie.
2. As the perfume opens the sweetness from rich dates and praline almost creamy rich kind of milky touch comes to the surface. It’s invigorating. It smells of a not too sweet, delicious pastry.
3. As the perfume continues to settle vanilla and almond like tonka bean scent profile. These notes all blended embrace the embodiment of a spicy fragrance and does so very very well.

When people talk about beast like perfumes this is it. It lasts forever and performs very well on the skin and clothes alike. This is a great alternative to expensive perfumes at a fraction of the cost.

For around $40, this is well worth the price tag. It makes a great holiday gift for just about anyone. 

Montale – Intense Café

If you are looking for something a little different something romantically wearable that blends the French café with the queen of the flowers, rose, then let me introduce you to Montale Intense Café.

This transportive perfume is by nature a unisex scent, but leans strongly more towards feminine notes with rose, vanilla and floral notes. This amber fragrance is a winter and fall sensation but is versatile enough to be worn year-round.

The notes:

1. This truly romantic fragrance brings familiarity from the onset. It has floral, vanilla and rose notes that appear from the very beginning of this perfume.
2. Although the name says café, it is not a true coffee fragrance. The coffee notes, although there, are subtle and in the back like that friend who holds everyone together. The coffee note honestly is so good just where it is.
3. Sweet vanilla latte. The vanilla in the dry down really comes to play and adds that layer of spice to this coffee floral sensation.

Montale does one thing better than everyone else. They know how to make scents last and this rose, coffee and vanilla fragrance stays true to that. The projection is also amazing.

Around $85 this romantic scent is a great buy. It is effortless coffee, romantic rose and sweet vanilla. It is a gorgeous rose vanilla scent that has a beast mode performance and is well worth the price tag.

212 VIP Rose CH

Image a perfume can be someone. Imagine a young bubbly girl getting out of her Uber Black in her mini skirt a beige Carolina Herrera handbag on her way to sip mimosas at brunch with her best friends. Let me introduce you to 212 VIP Rose by Carolina Herrera.

This perfume reminds me of a bubbly rose. Not overly sweet, but easy to sip and enjoy. This is a definite feminine scent with rose, peach blossom and pink pepper for a subtle but cute punch.

The notes:

1. Let me tell you for the third and probably not the last. This is bubbly. The champagne rose with a subtle pink pepper kicks off this perfume so well. The opening is the best part of this perfume and lasts about an hour. It is in your face girly.
2. As the perfume dries a bit, the peach blossom takes over in full effect, kind of like that third glass of mimosas at brunch. The peach blossom jumps off the skin and the rose is there in the background adding some depth.
3. The best part about any rose is pairing it with wood. And this is when the fragrance shines! The musky and woody notes at the end of this perfume blended with all the other notes add a layer of sophistication and sweetness.

This perfume is for anyone gal who likes to have a good time, but know when and how to roll up their sleeves and get to work. They have fun and get the job done. It lasts at least 6 hours and give great performance at the beginning.

Around $75 this perfume is a good deal. This fizzy, sparkling fragrance is a great buy for a any girl boss.

Coach Love

Last but not least, let’s introduce the newest fragrance on this list. Coach Love EDP is a floral fruity milkshake that has a simple composition. This fragrance is the definition of less is more.

Imagine wearing a flower sundress on a warm spring day about to go strawberry picking. That is this fragrance.

The Notes:

1. At first the scent of wild strawberries shines bright. This uplifting sweet fruity bliss is feminine and juicy.
2. As the fruity delight begins to fade, the rose begins to make its way through the scent, bringing an element of romance to the center.
3. Finally when it dries down a subtle cedar wood scent comes to the picture. It balancing out this scent nicely.

This scent lasts just about 4 hours on the skin. It is fun, minimal and girl. The strawberries are the real reason why this perfume makes it on this list of recommended perfumes. If you are looking a youthful fruity sensation, then this is it.

For about $55, this a good buy perfume. It is romantic, sweet and fruity.

Perfume	Key Notes	Who/when	Performance	Price
Armani Acqua di Gioia EDP	Lemon, mint, water jasmine and wood	Light summery scent for feminine girls	5/10	~$90
Lattafa Yara EDP	Vanilla, Caramel, Gourmand, Candy	Youthful pink scent that is perfect for summer/spring	8/10	~$35
Lattafa Khamrah EDP	Vanilla, Spicy, warm apple pie, tonka bean	Christmas wintery scent that works for unisex	10/10	~$40
Montale Intense Café EDP	Vanilla, rose, and coffee	This is a feminine leaning unisex and sophisticated perfume	10/10	~$85
CH 212 VIP Rose EDP	Champagne rose, peach blossom and wood	For a bubbly spring day/girl who wants to project femininity	6/10	~$75
Coach Love EDP	Wild strawberry, rose and wood	A warm summer day to go strawberry picking	4/10	~$55