Fragrance for a baby

Why would you want to perfume a baby? They smell amazing as they are.

I agree...... well atleast most of the time they smell amazing. haha

Tartine Et Chocolat Ptisenbon by Givenchy, Baby Touch by Burberry, Petits et Mamans by Bvlgari and Natura Mamãe e Bebê.

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Cause the baby is his.

It might not be the worst thing to put a tiny squirt on a baby.

Some to try- Un Jardin sur le Nil, Goutal- Eau de Camille, Diptyque- Jardin Clos

I guess all these have alcohool. It's better an alcohool free. Un Jardin Sur Le Nil alcohol-free on a baby would be heavenly!
Bastery, congrats for the baby.

Maybe just some scented lotion.

Exactly! There are some nice scented oils for babies.

While I understand and commend your intentions, most fragrances for babies have been removed from the market as it has been proven that it is important not to disrupt the infants nasal passage development before the age of THREE--and even then it is slightly questionable--MUSTELA makes the best baby care products, and some of them smell....well....like a baby. Whatever you decide to do, please do be CERTAIN that you don't apply ANY fragrance product that is not specifically created for babies on their skin, as all manner of rashes and mishaps may occur. My guess is that, when the fine lad is finally in your arms, and you get a whiff of him, you'll have NO desire to put any perfume on him whatsoever--until he's 12...at which point the Swiss company WELEDA makes a superb all natural and very effective liquid spray deodorant in three delicious scents: They are so safe that you might drink them. Babies have the MOST delicious smell. I'm sure you will not want to disrupt it once you get to know it, and, what's more, you mightn't want to disrupt your babies capacity to smell you. Just a suggestion....

Use Bontpoint....it's alcohol free and it smells good...even i use it too =X

Great post! If he really wants to scent his baby he can also use the product the baby is using not to disrupt the correlation dad-smell.
For babies one of the most import links to parents is the smell.

Congratulations. Before you do add any artifice to your dear little person, smell the little neck at the back, take a deep snuffle, and then decide.....

I'm sure the classic Johnsons pink baby lotion and baby powder was always scented. I shall have to have another look. Has anyone got any to check the ingredients list on the back?

Le Labo makes an alcohol free perfume for babies. Ambrette I think.

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the most wonderful smell

You could buy a plain massage oil such as organic almond oil or the like and obtain some high altitude lavender essential oil, some already-diluted-in-oil vanilla absolute and maybe some eucalyptus. Mix the lavender and the vanilla to less than 5% in a 4:1 ratio and use that. Then you will know it is pure.

The lavender is healing and aids sleep, and the vanilla is sweetening for 'those' smells. Keep the eucalyptus for when little man has a snuffle and place it on a tissue in the room. Never put pure EO on skin, use a 10% dilution on adults and 5% for babies.

Very much agree with le mouchoir de monsieur - don't do it. Let the baby grow up and decide for him/herself what she'd like to spray on if anything.

As awesome as babies smell on their own, I can't imagine why anyone would want to put fragrance on them O_o

And as someone who has grown up with allergies I'd say definitely don't do it. Babies are delicate little things. I'd even be careful with what fragrance I wore myself when AROUND the kid - I know many children/babies who are very sensitive to strong smells.

I wonder how many of us were bought up slathered in perfumed baby lotions and powders and came to no harm. I ask that anyone with some random baby products to hand, just have a look and see what it says on the packaging. List them here and we can then look them up on here to see what they are.

It is very much the Mediterranean custom to perfume babies in my experience. I spent much of my childhood being bought up in Spain and have Spanish cousins. Many of the babies and small children are perfumed, wear gold necklaces, bracelets and are pierced in the ears. It is just how it is customary to treat babies there and is up to the individual to make an informed choice.

I agree it is much better to choose pure than chemical and possibly adding nothing wins over pure, but there are situations when you have to put something on their skins now and then. Many creams and lotions are scented with something. Those purporting to have no scent often contain huge quantities of chemicals instead. Have a look. It's a minefield and you need to become a biochemist nearly.

Even if you buy nothing, somebody will give you some anyway as a gift.

Utterly agree with le mouchoir de monsieur, forfreddie, and others. You will fall in love with your baby's smell. You might want to apply your own fragrance with a light hand, if at all. Baby will think your, pretty terrific au naturel. You'll have plenty of time to introduce him to the world of fragrance.

I'm not so sure about the no harm part. Allergies and asthma are more common these days than ever before.

Here's a link you may find interesting!

http://www.katyconfidential.com/2011...l-baby-scents/

Baby powder...

Let baby bond with mum and dad first and vice versa. Personal scent is how families bond.

Congrats to you and your partner on your parenthood

Second that.

Congratulations!!!!!

Well, their skin does benefit from a little lotion and personally I've got a lot of beautiful stuff i rarely use. Just be sure you don't make the mistake of buying 'liquid talc'. A terrible product that has 'sparkles' in it. It burned my skin immediately. I felt like I had fire ants all over.

I think its a great idea as long as used im moderation and after the little one is around 8 months plus... I dont put anything directly on my little one but when i have had a splash and its rested for 10/15 mins i rib my chin and the little mans head... And hey presto one meam smellimg baby.

Sorry for the crap spelling in my earlier post... My phone doesnt like the letter n for some bizzare reason.

Kouros, and spray a lot of it.

Good point about the burning cream. Whatever you decide to use, try a bit on yourself first on a delicate area. Your skin will be too tough elsewhere to tell. Johnsons baby lotion is incredibly painful when applied to slightly raw skin.

L'occitane has a really nice one made specifically for babies called Mom and Baby water. It smells of sugar cookies. The bottle is really cute too.

Congratulations! Babies smell pretty awesome on their own, sweet skin and musky heads. Baby cologne is pretty popular in Spain and latin american countries - Nenuco, Mimitos, Denenes, are a few that I've heard of. Check out the baby care section at your local stores, I bet they have lots to choose from.

You don't actually have to put the cologne directly on the baby. It could scent the shawls or muslins or clothing if you so pleased.

+1 on L'occitane
+ Bvlgari Petits et Mamans
+ Demeter Fragrance Baby Powder
Chicco also has baby parfume, but if you ask me, don't put perfume on a baby. They smell sooo beautiful! <3

Advice from the one who received Chloe (the KL version) in 1987 from her dad when she was born...don't give perfume!! At age 7, I accidentally sprayed the bottle into my mouth (nozzle was facing the wrong way) and was terrorized for many years before I tried perfume again.

How wonderful!

Babies, like puppies, have their own wonderful scent, I want to add Cartier to the list as I recall they made fragrance for babies. I also think that L'Occitane has a line, too, under the name Bonne Mere, "good mother."

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To add to this, when I was a toddler, I dumped a bottle of my mother's Chanel No. 5 on myself. I ended up covered in hives and was rushed to emergency. (All those aldehydes, to guess. ) That did nothing to prevent me from developing my perfume obsession.

Congratulations! My input only echoes the majority, smell your baby when he comes and all intentions of perfuming him will go out the window He will already be perfumed in soap when he is bathed, soap powder for his clothing, lotion, talc for his little rump and barrier cream. His little nose will be very sensitive and overwhelmed, smelling the world around him so its probably best to introduce perfume a little later.
I am unfamiliar with any cultural practices regarding perfuming a baby, but if its important, you could try using an aromatic floral water, such as rosewater which would be very gentle.

Congratulations, Basteri!

In case it might serve you as an indication, this is what my sister used to do on her 2 princesses: alcohol-free scents (Baby Touch by Burberry & Petits & Mamans by Bulgari; she tends to prefer this one, actually) and never directly on the skin. She used to put some drops on her own hands then slightly rub them on the babies' clothes.

Oh, don't feel embarrassed! I haven't held a baby in ages and I really can't remember what one smells like. But once you have one, you can sniff it all day. Forgot to give my congrats btw, soooo early congratulations!

I would not spray ANYTHING on a baby. This is not a good idea.

The mother may appreciate a little gift, this being something mild to be worn as she is tending to the baby, like

CHANEL - Les Exclusifs - Coromandel.

Lay in a good supply of extra diapers or he will ​smell like Kouros a fair amount of the time.

I would never put a fragrance on a baby. They smell nice and, most of all, they can't choose

I bought this when my daughter was 3 and still have it. It's a good scent. I wouldn't scent a baby though. I love the way they smell already! My daugther is 20 now and I think she still smells amazing. Is that strange?!

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Not too sure about Johnsons. When my sister was in college, she took up a course in childcare to become a qualified nanny and they showed how a Johnsons shamoo can wipe the floor squeaky clean. My daughter has hypersensitive skin and the cream irritates her skin. This was years ago, so they might have changed the formulation since then.

is this real???

Yes! Smells like a cross between haribo sweeties and devon violets just from sniffing the stopper of the green one.

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PS. Johnsons lotion really stings badly on a rash or pink sore skin.

Ive always had a problem when people apply scents to babies (obviously i dont mean scented products - i mean "baby cologne") Babies have one of the greatest smells when you are holing them and take a deep breath of their head. I dont mean to sound creepy here guys lol. Congratulations Basteri!

That is wonderful news, Basteri! Congratulations!

Cetaphil lotion has no alcohol and is very moisturizing. Unscented.

After reading all of this, it seems that we all agree on one thing: Not the best idea in the world to perfume a baby for sundry reasons. Here, also, are some other insights:

-Avoid TALC. (I use talc in profusion so i am forever hearing this: It's *really* poisonous) CORNSTARCH is better. Now--if I didn't have boxes and boxes of vintage talc, I would be using Crabtree & Evelyn "Lavender" Cornstarch Powder. It's JUST as nice as talc, and even more effective, also, imparts a lovely scent.

-Avoid ANY product that is not reasonably pure and of good quality: Mustela is my recommendation. Forget about Johnson & Johnson's anything.

-Pure and simple "Rose Water" (Eau de Rose) or "Orange Blossom Water" (Eau de Fleurs d'Oranger) or "lavender Water" (Eau Lavandee) are lovely for refreshing linens and clothes and even yourself. These are completely "Food Grade," and are used in many French Pastry recipes (there is also "Eau a la Violette" (Violet Water). These are *not* colognes and are 100% alcohol free. My recommendation would be simple Rose Water: Roses are a gift from heaven and their by-products have been used for centuries--and centuries--for everything. Rose Water is *Very Effective* at doing all kinds of things-- Lavender Water can be insect repellant--etc.

Try to use the minimal amount of "Cosmetic" applications on Baby. First of all, He can't choose: So it's sort of cruel when you think about it. Second of all, God makes us perfect, that is, until we go and fuck everything up. So: Just you wait until you get a whiff of the delicious, creamy musky divine smell of his neck. Not only will you *not* want to be disguising that--you'll be loving the vestiges he leaves on YOU.

Also: All products--use in moderation. Just as Mumsy points out how that nasty Johnson & Johnson's baby shampoo might strip floorboards, all products lie. ONE DROP of liquid Marseille soap in about a full liter of water is enough to wash Baby. No baby needs to be lathered up like we do and scrubbed! EVERYTHING IN MODERATION. Superfluous indulgences like perfume: Forget it. It's unfair to HIM--how do you know if he likes it? Plus--EVERYTHING smells fascinating and about 10 times stronger to him in his infancy so why would you muck that wonder up with added olfactory stimulation?