Marc Jacobs's Marc Jacobs Fragrance Versus Michael Kors's Michael Fragrance

Two well known male fashion designers, Marc Jacobs and Michael Kors both have very feminine name sake fragrances for women. Both perfumes, Marc Jacobs by Marc Jacobs and Michael Kors by Michael Kors, share similarities but yet are very different scents for two very different types of women.

Both Marc Jacobs and Michael Kors are classified as floral perfumes. They may both be floral perfumes, but they are very different types of scents. Marc Jacobs is an aquatic floral fragrance while Michael is a spicy floral fragrance.

Marc Jacobs uses the gardenia flower as it's floral heart while Michael Kors uses the tuberose as it's floral base. Marc Jacobs is fresh, soft and feminine while Michael Kors is slightly exotic, bold, spicy and sensuous. It is possible to love both fragrances, but many people will prefer one scent over the other. Personally, I prefer Marc Jacobs to Michael.

Marc Jacobs created his name sake fragrance, Marc Jacobs perfume for women in 2001. In 2002 he also created Marc Jacobs for women. In the following few years he also created several other fragrances such as Marc Jacobs Blush.

But here we are focusing on Marc Jacobs's Marc Jacobs for women, in it's original form. Marc Jacobs is classified as a white floral scent. The fragrance notes are:

Marc Jacobs by Marc Jacobs

Top Notes:

Middle Notes: gardenia, white pepper, jasmine, honeysuckle

Base Notes: blonde woods, musk

For those of us who, like myself, dislike spicy perfumes-don't let the white pepper note scare you off from trying Marc Jacobs. I loathe spicy or peppery scents of any kind. I don't even eat black or white pepper, I dislike it that much.

I do not get any peppery notes at all from Marc Jacobs. I do know that sometimes fresh gardenias have a very slight soft peppery note. So I'm sure this note is included to mimic this natural occurring note in real gardenias. But again, I don't notice this note at all and my skin does tend to amplify spicy notes, so I think it is very faint.