It doesn’t matter if it’s a rainy autumn or the weather pleases with the sun and clear skies, with the onset of October, we begin to want what will warm us: a warmer scarf, hotter tea, more comfortable evening. We have collected eight fragrances that will perfectly fit into this slightly melancholy mood.
Rentless, Lush
Lush stores are more often visited for shower gels, hair masks, funny bath bombs and other nice things. However, the brand boasts a wide range of perfumes.
The name of Rentless perfume can be interpreted in different ways – it literally means “no rent”: you might think that someone has nothing to pay for an apartment. In fact, everything is not so sad at all: the bottle contains a viscous, sweet and thick aroma of dried fruits soaked in spiced rum, fragrant pipe tobacco, old books and an attic heated by the autumn sun in a cozy country house.
Kenzo World Power, Kenzo
Salty splashes, rough tiles on the way to the beach, weather-beaten snags on which it is convenient to dry your swimsuit, citrus lemonade in a misted bottle and the wind heavily flavored with the intoxicating sweet aroma of fragrant tobacco – all this seemed to be packed into a bottle of the new Kenzo World Power at once.
These are dear memories of a day on the seashore, which are neatly packed in an elegant satin box and tied with a silk ribbon – so that sometimes you can take them out and look at them lovingly.
Winter Palace, Memo
Despite the fact that these spirits are called “Winter Palace”, autumn is the perfect season for them. They have a juicy slice of lemon, and orange peels, and a couple of mint leaves, filled with strong, strong tea, from the heat of which a barely noticeable haze flows over the surface of the cup.
And also a slight smokyness – as if a pinch of smoked lapsang souchong tea or tart mate accidentally got into the tea leaves. Or maybe just outside the window the boys are burning dry leaves while you are warming yourself at home after a long walk along the autumn alleys.
A Midnight Stroll, Gucci
Burning logs, a sweater smelling of country fires, creosote-soaked sleepers at a railway station somewhere far from the city, damp leaves underfoot and a hazy horizon – all these are intricately intertwined motifs in both warm and cool, melancholy and brutal aroma.
And if you give free rein to your imagination, then it will take us to the autumn suburbs of London from the time of Arthur Conan Doyle. Foggy alleys, smoking coal stoves in every house, the distant clatter of hooves and a lamplighter with a long staircase slowly lighting beautiful street lamps one after another.
Nina Rose, Nina Ricci
Like his pastel pink bottle, Nina Rose is delicate, girlishly playful and evoking a smile. Its composition is woven from southern, sun-warmed white flowers – orange blossom, neroli and jasmine – to which are added the powdery physicality of musk, the warmth of white cedar and candy creamy citrus sweetness.
Soft and warming, like a favorite cashmere sweater, the fragrance turned out to be very cheerful – a great way to cheer yourself up on a gloomy morning, when under no circumstances do you want to get out of bed.
Angel Nova, Mugler
Candied berries, rose petal jam, raspberry syrup and a small pinch of red pepper. Those who did not wait for the first frosts and put their hand into the pantry with dessert preparations will surely like Angel Nova.
In addition, there is a tropical note of juicy lychee in this fragrance.
The composition is enclosed in a space-futuristic star bottle, but it exudes from it on warm summer evenings, ripe raspberries heated by the sun and mother’s jam gurgling on the stove, from which an airy pale pink foam is removed.
Amber Fever, Mancera
Ambergris is one of the warmest, coziest and at the same time unbanal perfume ingredients. The vast majority of fragrances built around this note are powdery-sweet, resinous, with a subtle salty tint.
There is this caramel-balsamic warmth in Amber Fever, but along with it there is a lot of iodine salt, rough woody notes and a clear hint of strong drinks of noble origin. It’s like sitting in a cozy bar in some Scandinavian seaside village and looking at weather-beaten mossy boulders against which grey-green waves break.
Imperial Crowne, Thameen
As many as three types of pepper – black, Sichuanese and pink – are included in the composition of the Imperial Crown fragrance along with notes of leather and patchouli. At the same time, it’s impossible to call it deliberately spicy – rather, it could smell like a chest in which noble spices, brocade, and oils were once transported, tied with strong leather straps.
And now it stands in a cozy living room and, together with the owner’s favorite things, keeps half-forgotten stories from distant and long wanderings among the hot sands and rare oases immersed in greenery.