Does your choice of perfume change during the winter? Share!
Yes! All my super heavy and warm fragrances just feel so much better when the temperatures get cooler.
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I tend to lean towards more spicy scents (cinnamon, clove, warm vanilla) in the winter, but not exclusively.
Yes. When I do wear fragrance (which is usually rare but lately more often) I usually like spicier in the winter months.. or more crisp. In the summer I like warm, earthy, smells… the kind that smell good and dirty, half naked and lounging in the sun all day! Haha I like sexier smells in the summer 😉
no,I’m still royal to my YSL Black Opium and Dior Pure Poison!
Not at all! I grew up in the tropics and didn’t really have a concept of seasons. I pretty much wear the same things year-round (the only difference being I’d wear a coat and apply extra moisturizer in winter).
I only change my perfume in summer. In the hot months I use lighter fragrances. The rest of the year I’m faithful to my signature perfume.
Yes, I tend to put away my more floral and fruity scents and bring out my slightly stronger, deeper scents. I love to spray Pure Poison onto my scarf when I go out; it just reminds me so much of Christmas time when I would wear it back in Germany, when I lived there. It brings back memories. That’s the kind of fragrance I go for in winter. 🙂
Yes, I tend to go spicier, darker, heavier in fall and winter. I tend more toward citrus, light floral, fruity and sugary scents in fall and spring. Some scents I wear year round. Whatever floats my boat at the moment. 🙂
There are a few fragrances that I won’t wear in summer because they’re just too heavy (St. Laurent’s Opium used to be one but I’ve not worn it in years; Clinique Aromatics Elixir and a Fendi perfume are 2 others). I will wear “summer scents” in winter – there are times when I love a bright “citrusy” type scent but the heavy ones – I just don’t use them in summer at all.
A bit, yes, but mostly because that’s what people expect, lol 🙂 I would perfectly fine wearing a heavy winter perfume in summer or a fresh citrusy fragrance in winter.
yes! i switch to heavier and stronger scents for the winter rather than light and airy scents for summer
Totally! There are fragrances I can’t even think about in summer, but now they’re feeling so right!
I’m the same way–I still like light scents, but they get a little warmer and spicier during winter.
Yes! I wear Cashmere mist and Calyx most of the year (I’m in Florida) but go to Victoria’s Secret Rapture, Guerlain Nahema, and Nuit de Noel in the cooler months. Old school, but I don’t care for the newer fragrances.
Yes! Tom Ford Blad Orchid is very winter to me, I like the moment when you take off your coat and smell the warm scent.
Yes. I wear my heavier, musky scents like Prada Candy and Dolce & Gabbana Pour Femme. I feel like you really get the full effect when it’s cooler out
I love D&G Pour Femme but on a cool spring day. It’s a nice mix of floral and amber.
I reach to most warmer scents like amber and vanilla still sweet but most warm and less fruity.
My perfume choices are either woody and masculine (usually unisex scents, occasional men’s scents) or sweet and super girly (Prada Candy, or things heavy on jasmine or lilac) year round with no attention to season. No real middle ground. haha. I do find myself buying and wearing scents more often in winter, though. Not because of the weather, but because of all the makeup sales and promotions drawing my attention to it.
Yes! I prefer the spicy/woody/oriental scents in the winter over the floral/fruity ones I tend to wear in warmer months.
I have a pretty big collection of “The Ones” which I’ve found along the way.. The season doesn’t matter to me as much my mood and what fragrance will be most pleasing to me on the particular day. 😀
Absolutely…..I pull out the Orientals, the Ambers and the Incense dominated ones. I am enjoying Incense Rose right now….by Andy Tower. A bit of subtle leather is good in the fall and early winter as well. I am wearing Equistrius by Perfums de Empire today….an early Christmas present from me to me.
Tauer Incense Rose is to die for! I also just tried Phi–another insanely good rose of his.
sorry…typo…that is Andy Tauer
Not really… I’m really a gourmand lover year round but I get so many perfume samples form Sephora that right now I’m trying anything and everything! My perfume game isn’t really up there yet anyway, I need to learn much more about scents!
Yes. I wore Cartier Baiser Vole edp in the winter month because it smell softer & better in the winter. In the summer month I like the fruity fragrance of Chanel Coco Mademoiselle edp.
Yes, I shift to heavier scents!
Yes, definitely. I go for more fresh scents in the Winter and Fruity scents in the Summer.
No, not at all. I wear what I am in the mood to wear – but then again, I don’t wear heavy scents anyway whether or not it is winter. : )
I tend to wear spicy warmer scents all year round, day and night, but I find some interest in more floral fruity scents during the spring and summer. I still rely daily on Jimmy Choo Stars and Calvin Klein Euphoria almost all the time.
Absolutely! I don’t enjoy my spicy roses, vanilla, or woody fragrances in the summer but adore them in winter. Winter favorites include Vero Profumo Rubj edp (passionfruit, cumin) & Rozy edp, Ormonde Jayne Ta’if (saffron, rose, dates) & Orris Noir (spicy iris), Tauer Incense Rose (self-explanatory) & Phi Une Rose de Kandahar (rose, apricot), Diptyque Tam Dao (sandalwood/rosewood), Mona di Orio Vanille (smoky vanilla), and Jo Malone Blackberry & Bay.
Absolutely! I don’t enjoy my spicy roses, vanilla, or woody fragrances in the summer but adore them in winter. Winter favorites include Vero Profumo Rubj edp (passionfruit, cumin) & Rozy edp, Ormonde Jayne Ta’if (saffron, rose, dates) & Orris Noir (spicy iris), Tauer Incense Rose (self-explanatory) & Phi Une Rose de Kandahar (rose, apricot), Diptyque Tam Dao (sandalwood/rosewood), Mona di Orio Vanille (smoky vanilla), and Jo Malone Blackberry & Bay.
Most definitely. Heavy and warm are only for the winter. In the summer I only wear light scents.
Yes, in the winter I like to wear something like Obsession and Opium. They have a weightier, warmer scent that I feel is too powerful for the other seasons.
I always wear my gourmand, orientals and spicy fragrances in fall/winter. One of my friends wore Angel on a hot summer day and it made me sick. Angel is a favorite, but I love it on a freezing wintry day, though. It just comes on waaaay too cloying in the heat. In spring/summer it’s citrus, light florals and green/clean fragrances. I’m so traditional when it comes to fragrance.
It also gives me something to look forward to if I resist wearing a fragrance for a season. I hate winter but if it means I can break out Angel, Prada Candy or YSL Manifesto, that’s great. Then I really appreciate summer when I break open a bottle of D&G Light Blue.
Not really, I have a HUGE collection of perfumes and wear one for the day. However I must admit I do like the heavier scents in winter – Opium for sure. I love wearing La Dolce Vita, Poeme, Clinique’s Aromatics and Yresse.
Yes! I tend to wear more light and clean scents during the summer and during the winter I tend to gravitate towards the musks.
No, I choose perfumes based on my mood.
I do change my scent with the seasons but one that I like year round is Cristalle by Chanel. It is so nice for Spring/Summer for obvious reasons, but I received it for Christmas when it first came out so long ago. It reminds me of a sparkling glass of champagne at Christmastime so I do wear it all year long. There is something special and delicious about champagne in cold weather!
I love to wear gourmand scents around the holidays. I feel like my spicier, more complex perfumes reflect what we wear in the winter: cashmere, wool, fur, etc. I also associate those types of perfumes with a fancy night out!
Yes, sadly I have to pack away all my aromatic, green, chipper perfumes because they just won’t blossom in the cold and dry of winter. :/ Like so many others here I do enjoy a warmer, spicier scent during winter, although I have lately been craving Atelier Cologne’s Oolang Infini, too! Prominent tea notes seem to do it for me lately..
I mean chypre, not chipper, sorry…
Yep–I tend to use fragrances with richer base notes (vanilla, amber, oud, musk) in the winter, and lighter (cedar, sandalwood, vetiver) in the summer. My body chemistry strongly projects warm/heavy basenotes–not very considerate to friends or colleagues when it’s hot and humid out!
Not much else changes; I’ll still wear citrus or floral in the winter and gourmand or oriental in the summertime.
No. I wear lighter fragrances all year round. The rosier, the better. Lighter fragrances, in my case, are always full proof. I tend to layer them with the pairing of rose scented lotion on my body.