Top 10 Most Expensive Perfume in the World

We all want to smell good because it always makes us feel good, as well as impresses those around us. This is why the global deodorant, antiperspirant and perfume market is growing day by day. Perfume has the power to change our emotions and physical state as it helps stimulate our olfactory nerves and the areas of the brain that control our memories and emotions.

Different perfumes are priced differently. And factors that determine cost include packaging costs, marketing costs, and materials used. Some perfumes cost as low as $10-$50, while some fragrances are as high as $1 million. Yes you read those expensive perfumes exist too and they cost you thousands of dollars per ounce right there.

1. Annick Goutal Eau d’Hadrien (worth $441.8 per ounce)

Released in 1981, this perfume is still popular today. Its ingredients are a combination of ylang-ylang, citrus root, sweet and herbal, and spice. It is an ideal perfume for evening wear. Even the bottle has a unique shape and looks very attractive. The perfume was created as a joint effort by two popular companies – Annick Goutal and Francis Camail, and has been loved by people for the first few years. Annick Goutal is a tenth of the most expensive perfumes in the world.

2. JAR Bolt Lightning ($765/oz)

This perfume was launched in 2001. This has a floral scent for women. Its ingredient list includes oriental flowers, freshly cut tuberose and green notes. Plus, this combination comes packaged in a gorgeous hand-cut bottle that will take any dresser to life. At $765 per ounce, Bolt of Lightning JAR perfume is the ninth most expensive perfume in the world. Also, the Lightning JAR perfume Bolt can only be found in certain JAR boutiques.

3. The Joy of Jean Patou ($850/oz)

Jean Patou is a very famous name in the fragrance industry. He made Joy a super hit with double the ingredients and included 28 roses and 10,000 Grasse jasmine flowers, ylang ylang, tuberose, and Bulgarian roses. The jasmine flowers used here are harvested in summer in Grasse, France for two weeks. One of the reasons for the high price is that 50 bottles of perfume are made each year. JOY was made with a lot of care and help, so it was extraordinary and timeless. Joy is considered to be one of the greatest fragrances ever created. It is also a groundbreaking example of the floral genre of perfume. Besides being the most expensive, it is also one of the rarest perfumes.

4. Caron Poivre ($1,000/ounce)

This beautiful and unique perfume was created in 1954 to commemorate Caron’s 50 years of perfume production. Caron influenced the launch of Poivre, which still has a uniquely explosive scent today. This scent is intriguing and woody with a rich floral heart and spicy peppery scent. This combination creates a unisex, strong and brave fragrance. The perfume is packaged in a beautifully handcrafted baccarat bottle with a white gold luxurious collar and crystals.

5. Hermès 24 Faubourg ($1,500/oz)

This perfume is very expensive as only 1,000 bottles are made. Its fragrance will never forget vanilla, sandalwood, patchouli, ylang-ylang, ambergris, orange blossom, jasmine, and tiare flowers . These ingredients have a long-lasting soothing effect and create a scent that can improve your mood almost instantly.

Hermes gets a lot of satisfaction when they use 24 Faubourg. A fresh, feminine fragrance with notes of orange blossom, amber, vanilla and jasmine, it ranks sixth on the list of the most expensive perfumes in the world. Introduced in 1995, this perfume epitomizes elegance and sophistication with oriental spices and slow-flowering after-sales notes. Also, this is the best way to play a female character.

6. Clive Christian #1 ($2,150/oz)

Clive Christian is known for its luxury perfumes. He is the creator of many popular fragrances, but number one steals the show. In 2001 and 2006, when the original editions of this perfume were released, it was rated as the most expensive perfume. It comes in two flavors: oriental woody for men and floral oriental for women. The top notes of the perfume are made with cardamom, thyme, bergamot, lime and Sicilian mandarin nutmeg. Base notes are made using vanilla, sandalwood, cedar wood, amber wood and vetiver. Heart notes combine heliotrope, ylang ylang, jasmine, rose and lily. . This amazing perfume is housed in a stunning handmade crystal bottle. The neck is made of sterling silver with 24-carat gold plating and is decorated with solitaire. Both the material and the bottle cost too much.

7. Chanel Grand Extreme ($4,200/oz)

Chanel is perhaps the most popular brand in the perfume industry, and created this perfume in 1921. Most perfume collectors consider this perfume a treasure and want to add it to their collection. This feminine perfume has an abstract fresh floral scent. Also, it comes packaged in a stunningly attractive bottle. Chanel wanted to create in 1921 a unique fragrance that no one could copy. Designer Ernest Beaux created this perfume using some of the most expensive ingredients of its time: Jasmine from Grasse, Rose de Mai and ylang-ylang. After that, the smell improved with a 1% overdose of fatty aldehydes characteristic of Chanel. At $42,00 per ounce, this is now the 4th most expensive perfume.

8. Baccarat Les Larmes Sacrees de Thebes ($6,800/oz)

This beautiful perfume is part of three limited edition perfumes from Baccarat. The scent combines frankincense, myrrh, sandalwood, musk, basil, myrtle, ylang-ylang, cardamom, amber, jasmine and geranium. It is also packaged in a unique and attractive pyramid-shaped crystal bottle. One of the reasons behind it being very expensive is that the bottles of perfume are handmade by baccarat experts. And the hat is a beautiful amethyst. The bottle also has yellow crystal bubbles blown inside the perfume.

At a rate of $6,800 per ounce, Baccarat Les Larmes Sacrees de Thebe is one of the most expensive perfumes in the world. Both the incense and the bottle are expensive.

9. Clive Christian No. 1 Imperial Majesty’s Perfume ($12,721.89/oz)

A refined and alluring fragrance for women is created by blending Ylang Ylang, Tahitian Vanilla, Italian Cinnamon, Rosa Cetapolis, Jasmine, Rose Oil, Oris Root and more . Once you use this perfume, you will feel better than Aphrodite, the Greek goddess of beauty and love . The popular perfume Roja Dave created the perfume. This perfume is a bottle made using substances that may not work easily if not handled with extreme care during the manufacturing process. The neck of the bottle is made of 18 carat gold and is set with a gorgeous 5 carat diamond.

10. DKNY Golden Delicious Million Dollar Perfume Bottle ($1 Million)

This most expensive perfume is the result of a joint effort by renowned designer DKNY .With popular jewelry designer Martin Katz. The main reason for this high price is that the bottle contains a yellow canary 2.43 carat diamond, an oval cut 3.07 carat ruby, a rose cut 4.03 carat diamond, a Brazilian 1.06 carat paraiba tourmaline, a 15 carat beautiful pink Australian diamond, 4 rose cut diamonds, 183 yellow sapphires, 2,700 white diamonds and an oval cabochon 7.18 carat Sri Lankan sapphire. These stones were carefully laid out and the finished fabrication took about 1,500 hours. But every minute spent was worth it, as the end result turned out to be terrific. Fragrances are created for noble causes. And the proceeds from the sale were donated to a charity called ‘The War on Hunger’.

They say a good perfume is worth every penny. Were they thinking about expensive perfumes? These are the most expensive but amazing perfumes in the world. These are the most valuable for both fragrance and packaging. Although many of us may not own most of the perfumes on this list, it’s not very good to even learn about the existence of these amazing fragrances in stunning bottles. It is not wrong to say that each of them is an illustration of their own abilities.