The ruling on using perfumes that contain a percentage of alcohol?

Question : Honorable Shaykh, a questioner asks: What is the ruling on using perfumes that contain a percentage of alcohol?

Answer : There is nothing wrong with using perfumes that contain a percentage of alcohol. However, it is better not to use them.
Because Allah the Exalted said: So the word "avoid" in "avoid it" appears to mean avoiding it in any form of use. But His saying, "The devil only wants to cause between you enmity and hatred through intoxicants and gambling," indicates that the intended meaning of avoiding it is avoiding drinking it, because drinking it is what causes enmity and hatred and turns people away from the remembrance of Allah and from prayer. However, it is not forbidden, because the verse is not explicit in the obligation to avoid it in any way whatsoever. As for what concerns ritual purity and impurity, it is pure. In fact, pure intoxicants are not impure, because there is no evidence for the impurity of intoxicants.
And if there is no evidence for its impurity, it is pure, based on the principle that the default state of things is purity. But if someone asks, "Is not intoxicants forbidden?" we will say, "Yes." So does that make it impure? No. Not every forbidden thing is impure, but every impure thing is forbidden. So every impure thing is forbidden, but not every forbidden thing is impure. For example, harmful things like poison and pieces of glass and the like are forbidden for a person to eat, but are they impure? No. As for an impure thing, it is forbidden; every impure thing is forbidden to eat, but not every forbidden thing is impure.
In summary, the answer is that using these perfumes that contain some alcohol should be avoided and not used. If one uses them, he has not committed a sin. As for what concerns impurity, they are not impure; there is nothing wrong with them.