Recommend me cruelty-free brands/perfumes

Hello

I got interested in perfumes some time before I decided to buy only cosmetics without any animal ingredients and not tested on animals. Up to that point I had bought many fragrances, almost all of which I sold afterwards. Now many years later I miss some of them. I list them below.

I'm curious if maybe you can recommend me some similar smelling fragrances, but which are made by companies that are cruelty-free. That is have a clear policy of not using animal ingredients and not testing their products on animals. Any other recommendations based on my likes are also very welcome .

- Chanel Egoiste

- Chanel Antaeus

- Annick Goutal Sables

- Bvlgari Black

- Comme des Garcons Monocle Scent One: Hinoki

- Comme des Garcons Black

- Comme des Garcons Series 3 Incense: Avignon

- Lush Voice of Reason (This was actually cruelty-free but it's no longer produced)

- Guerlain Habit Rouge

- L'Instant de Guerlain pour Homme Extrême

- Terre d'Hermes

- Tom Ford Oud Wood

- Tom Ford Tobacco Vanille

- Tom Ford Noir Extreme

- Tom For Black Orchid

- Aramis Havana

- Dior Homme Intense/Parfum

- Boucheron Jaipur

- Yves Saint Laurent Kouros

- Yves Saint Laurent Opium

- Byredo Pulp

- Thierry Mugler Angel

Comme des Garcons Monocle Scent One: Hinoki 
Maybe try Aesop's Hwyl ?

Hope you have success finding new loves to replace these 😃

Thank you!

Hwyl is a great recommendation! I have actually worked that one out before posting here. A lady in the perfume shop recommended it to me. It smelled almost the same as Hinoki to my nose. I actually ordered a bottle of it just 2 days ago 😄.

Oh awesome! It's got a bit more heft I'd say, but smells of the most divine Hinoki forest I'd love to live in. lol

RE: Annick Goutal Sables
For Immortelle I really dig Parfum d'Empire's Immortelle Corse. Or maybe try Fougere Bengale. I know he uses a lot of naturals, but not sure about honey. Might be worth reaching out to them ([email protected]) they're super nice. (I had to reach out to them recently for help with a bottle label. lol) If they're cruelty and animal product free, and you like their style, you might like several of theirs as options for what's on your list. 

Thank you for Parfum d'Empire recommendation! Per your recommendation I contacted them about their policy towards animal ingredients and animal testing. If they are cruelty-free, I'll definitely try the one you mentioned and more if I like that one.

If you like woody scents, I believe Maison Louis Marie is CF. They are listed as vegan on Sephora.com, so that usually implies cruelty free as well.

Bois de Balincourt and Le Long Fond are both nice.

Commodity is also CF, and I can't recommend Moss and Milk enough. 

The entire Hiram Green range is cruelty-free except Slowdive (beeswax), and he uses naturals, ethically sourced, sustainable ingredients.

I first got the discovery set (there's a 15 euros voucher with the set if you go for a bottle afterwards) and then jumped for Hyde (a leather slap in the face with campfire smoke ending animalic), and later got Vivacious (being phased out) which is the opposite, pretty much (a happy green floral with violet, carnation and orris-powder).

Maybe Arbolé (patchouli, cedar, sandalwood, vanilla, tonka bean) or Vetiver Vetiver (citrus, ginger, vetiver, cedarwood, ambrette seed) could fit your bill?

The range is small but very varied; there has been a price hike recently because, well, this is a one-man operation and he was at risk of not making it otherwise (if I remember correctly). But it was a beautiful discovery!

OK, I lost my entire reply.

Telegram version: Sables and immortelle? The composer of Sables Isabelle Doyen and Camille Goutal have created their own brand, Voyages Imaginaires, with all-natural perfumes (zero synthetics), refillable bottles, etc. They don't outright write down "cruelty free" but I checked the ingredients, there's no alinimal-derived products (it's mandatory to list them).

And they released an all-natural variation on Sables called L'Eau des Immortels - "Immortels" because immortelle, hint hint. Notes are officially Immortelle, Labdanum, Chocolate, Amber, Amyris, Benzoin, Tonka Bean, Bergamot, Vanilla and I think there are reviews here already!

Thank you for that recommendations @Whimssysteph. I'll try to grab some samples of those scents.

Thanks for so many recommendations @SixAmbregris! I'll grab samples for Hiram Green. I wrote email to Voyages Imaginaires to inquiry them about their policy towards animals. If they confirm they are cruelty-free, I'll definitely grab L'Eau des Immortels and maybe something else as well.

Generally I'm very pleasantly surprised by the amount of advise I've already received here ☺️. I posted exactly the same thread on Basenotes forum and I received only a single reply, which wasn't even recommending me anything.

You're welcome, @Nocheating ! I hope you find some things you enjoy that also align with your ethics on animal testing. It can be a minefield since different brands define it differently. I know a lot about makeup brands that are CF, but I haven't seen many people on fragrance forums care too awfully much. Good luck!

The same - it's easier for me to find CF brands for face and shaving care, but less for perfumes. Thank you .

I can also confirm Voyages Imaginaires seem to be cruelty free. They responded to my email saying "All our fragrances are vegan and cruelty free". I will definitely check out L'Eau des Immortels, and maybe their other fragrances as well.

Brands like :

- Bon Parfumeur

- Divain

- Aimé de Mars

- Le Couvent (based on your favorite list, I think you would enjoy Kythnos )

Also, some classic brands has vegan perfumes. For example, there is a Chloé Nomade CF version (and, at my opinion, it's the best of the Nomade's flankers).

Guerlain is not CF, but is very strongly engaged in Bees preservation.

Amura Perfumes is CF as far as I know. Based on your likes you should get Burning Gold.

They're also still up and coming so you'd be supporting a small bussines as well, if you care about that.

Resurrecting the topic, as I have recently discovered that:

- Great, all-star-perfumers compositions and multiple-Fragrance- Foundation-awards-winner and -nominated Arquiste is entirely vegan and CF (as per their FAQ). I only know a couple of their perfumes but it looks like some could be up your alley, like Indigo Smoke (it's described by the brand as black tea, woody notes and incense, Luca Turin says he loves it), or maybe Misfit (patchouli-lavender-ambrette (?!) that ends, as per LT, in a "drydown of incense, geosmin, and woody amber", or Nanban (LT says, I quote, "a delicious orientaliste confection of woods and spices, that manages to avoid the cloying (...) and stays dry, warm and upright throughout").

- Indie brand Anatole Lebreton (looks like something of a cult favorite, I have a sample set on the way) is, as per the "about us" page, entirely vegan except one, Bois Lumière (beeswax), and re: CF, I'll quote him: "(...) My fragrances have only been tested on one animal – myself and a few friends who agree to be guinea pigs for testing my creations (...)".
Luca Turin (yes, again) considers them remarkable and inventive, feeling "satisfyingly like classical fragrances, with a lot of natural materials but without all-natural sogginess". Reviews here and on Fragrantica/Basenotes seem quite mixed, so I assume the range is on the ..."inventive" side, indeed.
Two are apparently green / woody, Grimoire (forest, but with cumin and a scent of old books/medieval castle?!) and L'Eau de Merzhin ( green / hay / moss) that would be, LT dixit, "a big, handsome woody green fragrance in the manner of Givenchy III".

Actually, thank you for starting this topic! Previously, in vegan stores that sell perfumes perfumes, I only saw all-naturals that smelled, well, "raw" (like the now-disappeared Tolteca brand; I really wasn't convinced), and the 100BON range which can be lovely in its own straightforward, very simple genre. I'm glad big players in the overall "fine fragrance" world are increasingly going that route too!

I’ll update this post as I run across more, but here’s two:
Francesca Bianchi (Her, Sustainability & Ethics page)

NOYZ (Certified Vegan/Cruelty Free)

I've only had testers so far but really love Jorum Studio! 

Bastille Parfum is a great brand when it comes to value. They are Animal Cruelty Free, they are clean label and have a huge focus on sustainability.Bastille Parfums website

I own Paradis Nuit which is supposed to smell like Marseille soap