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How to Choose a California Fragrance Gift — and Why Gift Flights Solve the Problem

By John P Beall ·

Fragrance is deeply personal. It's also one of the most memorable gifts you can give.

The challenge is obvious: how do you choose a scent for someone else without getting it wrong? Old California Botanicals has a simple answer — you don't have to choose. Our fragrance flights let your recipient do the discovering themselves.

What Is a Fragrance Flight?

A fragrance flight is a curated set of our California botanical eau de parfums, grouped by theme. Your recipient gets to sample each scent and find the one — or two, or three — that feels like theirs.

It's the difference between guessing and giving someone a genuine experience.

Our California Fragrance Flights

If You Already Know Their Signature Scent

Our individual eau de parfums are each inspired by a different facet of California's botanical landscape:

Shop All OCB Fragrances →

Sending Fragrance Gifts to Multiple People?

Our multi-address shipping feature lets you send fragrance gifts to multiple recipients in a single checkout — no repeat orders, no juggling tracking numbers. Perfect for sending different scents to different people on your list.

About OCB Fragrances

Every fragrance in the OCB collection is inspired by real places and real botanical memories in California's citrus country. JP Beall, founder of Old California Botanicals and a fifth-generation Redlands citrus grower, developed each scent from lived sensory experience — not a brief to a lab.

These are California fragrances that smell like California actually smells. That's rarer than you'd think.

Read: Orange Blossom Perfume & California's Gilded Age →
Read: What Orange Blossom Really Smells Like →

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