Perfumes containing a proportion of alcohol

Question:
Honorable Shaykh, may Allah grant you success. This questioner says: Perfumes that contain a proportion of alcohol, are these perfumes considered among the intoxicants, such that it is not permissible to use them?

Answer:
They are not considered among the intoxicants unless they intoxicate the one who drinks them. If they intoxicate the one who drinks them, then they are among the intoxicants. Yes. And as for if they do not intoxicate, but it is established that they contain alcohol, then these are to be avoided. Allah, Exalted and Majestic, said: “So avoid it.” If it is established that they contain alcohol, then they are to be avoided because they are ritually impure. Intoxicants are ritually impure. And they are also forbidden. But you see, not every pleasant thing contains alcohol, as is rumored, until this is established. Yes. And the default is that perfumes are pleasant and that they are permissible. Yes.