I’m sharing the absolute best clean perfumes for summer and warm weather that I wear nonstop. The best nontoxic perfumes are made with plant-based goodness and are free from chemical fragrance, synthetics, parabens, phthalates and questionable ingredients.

This is a highly curated list of my fave nontoxic perfumes for warm weathers with something for everyone – tropical, sunscreen, aquatic, skin, floral, and options for work, vacations and everyday wear. I also have a full guide to non toxic fragrance.

Best Clean Skin Perfume: NOYZ Rinse Cycle and Dedcool Mineral Milk

NOYZ makes a genderless, clean fragrance that’s certified vegan, cruelty free and free of parabens, phthalates, synthetic dyes, and animal byproducts. Rinse cycle is a clean skin scent that’s perfect for wearing to work. It reminds me of fresh, clean sheets but with a feminine layer thanks to florals like Cherry Blossom, Musk Flower and Pink Waterlily. This dries down to barely there skin scent. If you want to smell crisp and clean, I recommend checking this one out.

When I’m craving something clean and strongly gourmand, I also love NOYZ’s Sh**ty Day. It captures that fresh, salty-air with the freshness of cucumber and clary sage and warmth of fig, Venezuelan tonka bean, amber and woods. This is a fresh, clean gourmand to me that’s light and airy for summer. It settles into such a beautiful, sheer skin scent.

DedCool is a very cool Los Angeles fragrance brand that makes vegan, cruelty-free, and non-toxic scents free from phthalates and parabens. If NOYZ Rinse Cycle smells like clean sheets, Dedcool’s Mineral Milk smells like salty air, skin and ice cream. Mineral Milk is lighter and crisper than NOYZ’s Rinse Cycle or Sh**ty Day. I find Mochi Milk to be Mineral Milk’s fruitier, sweeter gourmand lil sis.

Mineral Milk has notes of Nectar, Passionfruit, Salt, Lavender, Milk, Amber, Australian Sandalwood, Virginia Cedar. For me, the salt and milk notes dominate and it dries down to a true skin scent laced with woodsiness.

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By Rosie Jane’s Rosie also deserves a mention. This is a true skin scent that’s just barely there with just a hint of rose. It’s basically your body’s natural musky scent enhanced with some floral.

Best Aquatic Perfume: The Nue Co Water Therapy

The Nue Co makes unisex functional fragrances that help de-stress and are formulated without any any parabens, phthalates, hexanes, or nitro/polycyclic musks. I’ve tried three of their perfumes and their marine scent Water Therapy is my favorite. It’s inspired by the idea that being near water calms the nervous system (which is so true for me!) and genuinely captures that with notes of seaweed, marine salt, clary sage, cardamom, and rose. This is a watery, salty skin scent that’s light and refreshing with a warm undercurrent. It’s subdued and soft, and I honestly do feel like it has a calming effect on me.

Best Tropical Perfumes

I actually have three favorite tropical perfumes for summer and it’s impossible for me to pick just one. There’s so many good ones in the clean perfume space!

Maison Louis Marie No 13 Nouvelle Vague

Nouvelle Vague is a creamy coconut scent with woodsy amber undertones that epitomizes tropical sophistication. This one reminds me of my trip to Puglia, Italy with its opening of citrus mixed with soft florals from muguet (aka lily of the valley) and heart of creamy coconut and Tuscan fig. The vetiver really grounds this scent overall and gives it an earthy facet.The vanilla, amber, and santal gives Nouvelle Vague a strong warm, yummy undercurrent that dries down to a softly sweet skin scent. I even have Maison Louis Marie’s Nouvelle Vague Reed Diffuser so my home smells the same.

Ellis Brooklyn: SALT

Ellis Brooklyn’s SALT is my OG fave tropical perfume without coconut. True to its name, SALT absolutely delivers on being a tropical perfume with a salty facet. The underlying Amber, sandalwood and musk rounds it out with warmth while Jasmine and Magnolia makes this beautifully feminine.

Floral Street: Arizona Bloom

I cannot rave about Arizona Bloom enough and feel like this brand is slept on. If you want a really good, sophisticated tropical floral scent, it’s Arizona Bloom. It’s a fresh, clean, creamy and grown floral coconut scent that wears like a second skin. This has notes of Coconut, Jasmine, Amber, Salted Musks.

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Best Sunscreen Perfume for Beach Vacations: By Rosie Jane Madie

By Rosie Jane is a clean, vegan, and cruelty-free fragrance brand completely free of parabens, sulfates, and phthalates, while fully disclosing any synthetics they use for transparency. The best sunscreen perfume is By Rosie Jane Madie in my experience. It nails that I just spent the entire day at the beach feeling of sunscreen drenched salty skin.

Madie has an ozonic, salty sea-spray opening and a jasmine and coconut heart with a touch of vanilla underneath to soften the whole profile. It’s got great projection and longevity, especially compared to their Rosie perfume, but isn’t overpowering. If you’re someone who loves that “just came from the beach” scent memory but wants it in a clean, wearable formula, Madie delivers it better than anything else I’ve tried.

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Best Natural Floral Perfume: Wit & West Caldera Flower

Wit & West is one of the only two fully 100% natural perfume brands on this list that’s vegan, cruelty free and uses no synthetics of any kind. Every fragrance is made using essential oils, absolutes, CO2 extracts, natural isolates, and even custom tinctures and enfleurage extraits (some pulled straight from ingredients in her own garden). Caldera Flower is a heady floral that’s stunning. It’s inspired by Panama’s lush tropical landscapes and blends bergamot, neroli, ginger, gardenia absolute, magnolia, ylang ylang, sandalwood, an in-house Tahitian vanilla tincture, and ambrette seed. I love the unique bright ginger opening and the heady mix of white florals like gardenia, neroli, magnolia and beautiful ylang ylang. Sandalwood and vanilla softens it a touch.

Their Yuzu Pop is technically a male cologne that’s floral but I personally love it. It opens with bright, zesty Japanese and Korean yuzu and coriander seed, settles into a narcotic jasmine sambac and orange blossom heart, and dries down into a warm, earthy base of frankincense and sandalwood. I love that this perfume is made from real citrus and real resins rather than lab-made aroma molecules. It doesn’t last as long as traditional fragrance, but has decent longevity for an all natural perfume.

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Best Fruity Perfume: By Rosie Jane Matilda and Leila Lou

Leila Lou was the first fragrance ever launched By Rosie Jane and I think it’s one of their best summer fragrances, alongside Madie. It’s a very sweet pear fragrance with notes of vanilla, grass and jasmine. I find it very bright, sweet and girly, but not cloying.

I recently tried By Rosie Jane’s new Matilda perfume and find it to be extremely bright, sweet and fruity. This is an ultra juicy scent with notes of passionfruit, aldehydes, finger lime, mango, and meringue and a base of milk and sandalwood. It’s a fruit meringue tart in the form of a perfume.

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Best Cucumber Perfume: 5 Sens Twin Flame

5 Sens is a fantastic option for affordable clean perfumes that are Vegan, Leaping Bunny-certified and cruelty-free. When I want to smell like clean, sophisticated cucumber, my go-to is 5 Sens Twin Flame. This is a musky, clean cucumber perfume with a woodsy edge, this cucumber-forward perfume delivers. It’s soft and sheer, yet fresh and woodsy. Overall, it dries down into a creamy, warm musk that’s simply lovely to wear.

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Best Hawaiian Perfume: Leahlani Pua Lei and Pamplemousse

Leahlani wins hands down for making the best 100% natural Hawaiian perfumes on their home island of Kauai. Pua Lei is a gorgeous Hawaiian floral scent with Leahlani’s propriety blend of tropical florals, puakenikeni flowers and sweet tuberose. If I could wear only one perfume that reminds me of Hawaii and transports me back, it would be Pua Lei. Pamplemousse is another bestseller of theirs that’s a creamy citrus vanilla scent.

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Providence Perfume Co: Summer Yuzu, Ivy Tower, Sweet Jasmine Brown, Rose 802, Meilia Lei

Anyone who love natural perfumes know of Rhode Island-based Providence Perfume Co. I put them in their own category because they’re an OG award-winning 100% natural perfume company with so many standouts. Founded by Charna Ethier. Providence Perfume uses the finest botanical ingredients from around the world and never contain: synthetics, petrochemicals, fragrance oils, dyes, parabens, pthathlates or chemical fragrances

All of Providence Perfume Co’s perfume oils are SO so incredible and perfect for summer! I’ve tried all of their 100% plant perfume oils and my top two faves are Sweet Jasmine Brown and Ivy Tower.

For a citrus perfume, Summer Yuzu has sunflower, cedrat, aglaia blossom, yuzu, tomato leaf, pink grapefruit, frankincense.

For a sensuous rose perfume for summer, Rose 802 has rose, black currant, cedar wood, fir, vanilla, bergamot, and myrtle.

Ivy Tower is the one that stood out most to me because of how unique this green fragrance is. It’s got geranium and ivy accord, white floral and rare essences of narcissus, mimosa and jasmine. It’s so verdant, yet sweet and redolent.

Sweet Jasmine Brown is a floral vanilla gourmand perfume that’s got jasmine, vanilla, pink pepper, tonka, and musk. It’s warm, creamy and delectable.