The 1990s were a defining decade. Supermodels became world-famous, Alexander McQueen rose to the top of the fashion world, and Carolyn Bessette-Kennedy forever went down in history as New York's main it-girl. Meanwhile, shopping malls were veritable temples of fragrance. Girls crowded around perfume stands, dreaming of Thierry Mugler's Angel – an original gourmand fragrance with the incredibly glamorous Jerry Hall as a muse. Or they would sneak into Victoria's Secret and spend their pocket money on those intoxicatingly sweet body sprays. If the budget didn't allow, you could get an education in perfumery by stealing your mother's Vogue magazine and pressing fragrance samples to your wrists. Oh, what times those were.
As nostalgia returns with renewed vigor, we revisit the decade's best women's perfumes—the 1990s scents that still deserve a place in your perfume collection. From Calvin Klein's Eternity to Lancôme's Trésor, these are compositions that have stood the test of time.
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1990s Fragrances That Are Coming Back in 2026
Angel, MUGLER
Trésor, Lancome
Dolce Vita, DIOR
Classique, Jean Paul Gaultier
L'Air du Temps, Nina Ricci
Calvin Klein
Amarige, Givenchy
Anaïs Anaïs, Cacharel
Based on material from: Vogue.co.uk