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“From a cult British scent start-up, this takes beeswax, iris, sandalwood and vetiver and – via some extraordinary alchemy – creates something that has everyone I know who’s tried it compulsively sniffing their own skin.” Jo describing Olfactive O’s Skin
Scents for the Season Josephine Fairley handpicks the finest winter fragrances that’ll have you returning for spritz after spritz Images: Skin image courtesy of Olfacttive O, all others: istockphoto.com/ Seng kui Lim / banusevim/ Wirestock / Suchat longthara There’s only one thing that has me looking forward to winter. It is the prospect of switching over my scent wardrobe to fragrances that I love, but which feel heavy as a faux fur coat on a summer’s day, almost physically making me hot and sweaty. For me, some fragrances are floaty frocks – my summer choices. Others are velvet, cashmere and – yes – opaque tights. And it’s at the exact getting-out-theopaque-tights moment in the calendar that I change over my perfumes, too. A real olfactory highlight, for me, in the year. You, of course, may be one of those people with a ‘signature’ scent that you’ve worn for forever, and be sitting there muttering: ‘That’s irrelevant to me.’ But actually, I’d like to persuade you otherwise, because there’s a very good reason, at least occasionally, to switch up what you wear. Because I’ll bet you also say, at least sometimes: ‘Trouble is, I can’t smell it on myself any more.’ And that’s precisely because you do have a signature scent, and your nose – or rather, your brain – treats it like wallpaper. In other words, it just becomes a background smell, and you miss out on enjoying something you love, except perhaps for a minute or two when first applying. Imagine how bored your sense of taste would become if you ate the same food, morning, noon and night. Now think about how that translates to smell – and maybe at least experiment with some of the scents I’m about to go into raptures over. Autumn <strong>2023</strong> is actually a very good moment for fragrance. During the pandemic, fragrance launches got backed up like planes circling round Heathrow. When we were all liberated, there was much uncertainty in the marketplace, and a lot of the fragrances launched were ‘flankers’, existing perfumes which had been given a bit of a twist. But this season, the floodgates have opened, creativity abounds – and we perfumistas are happy people indeed. So, here’s what I’m loving… Guerlain Tobacco Honey, from £90 for 50ml eau de parfum. There’s a strong tobacco trend wafting through perfumery right now. It’s all a bit decadent, considering how long the smoking ban’s been in place – but in truth, tobacco as a perfumery note is quite different to standing in a fug at the King’s Head (for anyone who remembers how much they used to have to splash out on dry cleaning, back in the day). It tends to be grassy, woody, complex, yet warm and seductive, which is why perfumers are having so much fun with it. This Guerlain latest really does give the sense of honey drizzled with honey, its sweet seductiveness further enhanced by vanilla, tonka and sesame, all enveloped in a cigar-like smokiness; indeed, it begs for you to dress up in your very finest and take it out to a fancy bar, as far as I’m concerned. La Montaña Divine Sunset, from £22 for 10ml eau de parfum. Used up all your annual leave allocation? From a Sussex-based brand (well, in truth, founder Cassandra Hall is based between Brighton and a Spanish mounta<strong>inside</strong>), Divine Sunset is a real holding-on-to-summer scent which invites you to bask in the warmth of orange blossom and musks. This is the scent equivalent of finding a protected spot on a sunny, blustery winter’s day and turning your face 105 priceless-magazines.com
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