Afnan's Mystique Bouquet has everyone in a tizzy. Many hail it as PDM Valaya's fruitier, smoother, and longer-lasting sister. But be warned, this one's a slow burner; it needs time to macerate or you might find yourself with a sharp, synthetic scrubber. Patience, darling, for a clean, feminine, and seriously potent spring-summer delight.

Parfums de Marly's Valaya is the brand's clean-aldehydic-musk feminine: white peach and bergamot over orange blossom and lily-of-the-valley, settling into a pdM-signature musk-ambroxan close. EV's No. 6 nails the bright opening; the trademark pdM musk-base smoothness is what falls off.