Personally, there are very few 'female-specific' scents I enjoy. It's lots of cloying rose, bubblegum sweetness, and overdone scented products like body oils and butters and creams and lotions and it just merges in to one big 'department stoor' smell sometimes, particularly if you add hairspray or scented hair stuff in to the mix.

That said, as someone who likes perfume, there are a few female-specific things I do like - Vanille Fatale by Tom Ford is one of the best.

Generally speaking, having now 'got in to' perfume, I will always love slightly oriental, balsamic, incensy scents on women, that have sweetness but also some depth and heft and aren't just 'sugar++++'. VF does that with some great supporting notes, but is distinctly feminine ina way some orientals can be more masculine.

There will also be a place for tasteful florals, and sweetness definitely works. Even girly scents work sometimes when you want to be flirtatious. But by and large, women don't really have the male equivalent of the 'fresh and clean' aquatic/sporty scent which is inoffensive but smells good enough to draw compliments.

There's also the social factor of men complimenting women and (possibly...) receiving a restraining order as a result...times have changed.