What are your top three fragrances for winter?
Tom Ford Amber Absolute, Replica By the Fireplace, and Pierre Guillaume Coze.
— Christine
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By the Fireplace has been a favourite of mine for 2 or more years and my daughter loves it too (we bought her a bottle for Xmas one year). Paloma Picasso is a new favourite and both Shalimar and Aromatics Elixir are neck and neck for third choice. I still have a bottle of Fresh Cannabis Rose (which they no longer make) which I also love at this time of year but as it’s not available any longer, I use it in a very miserly fashion!
Awe, Amber Absolute was such a good one. So sad it’s discontinued. I have By the Fireplace on now! I love Gilded Fox by Pinrose (smells like hot cocoa!), Tom Ford Tobacco Vanille and Oud Wood, Kilian Intoxicated and Angels’ Share, and Initio Parfums Side Effect. There are many more, but those are the big ones.
There is a brand called Dua Fragrances that along with their own original fragrances does “dupes” of iconic fragrances. I just happened to see the other day that they do one of Amber Absolute called Opus Amber. Judging by the reviews it seems like it does a decent job of mimicking the original. It might be worth looking into whenever you run out.
Go, men’s! Creed Himalaya, Hermes Terre and anything Vetiver. (Paloma is grand, too. It has gone into rotation since recalled here.)
Same ones every year:
1.) Tom Ford Black Orchid for special occasions or when I’m feeling a little shmexy,
2.) YSL Black Opium Nuit Blanche for an “everyday” fragrance.
3.) Avon x Christian LaCroix Absynthe for when I feel very deep and mysterious, as in; would love to go to a super old graveyard dressed in a long, flowing black dress with a black woolen cape and do etchings of the stones while sipping spiked hot cider!
Can I come with to the graveyard? I can see myself just like you write. I’ll be very pale, have loads of mascara and deep red lips.
Yes, indeed! If I ever get back east where there’s trees all around, that’s where I would go. There’s a beautiful graveyard in Englewood New Jersey: very old, lots of old oaks, maples and other shrubs and trees.
Bath Sabbath Mistress for Christmas (gingerbread) and Black Xmas (spiced mulled wine, dark fruit), TokyoMilk Tainted Love (spicy sandalwood and vanilla).
Solstice Scent’s Snowmint Mallow
Siren Song Elixirs Twinkly Lights
Fyrinnae’s The Marshmallow Prince
I love Clinique’s Aronmatics all year round, with Bottega Veneta’s Knot perfume and YSL’s Opium.
Hard to narrow them down. I like wearing fragrance with vanilla, amber and tuberose notes during the colder weather. Right now I’m loving.
Killian’s Angel Share
Serge Luten’s Tubereuse Criminelle
Vanille44 by Le Labo
Roja’s Sweetie Aoud
Tom Ford Lost Cherry
By the Fireplace is one of my winter faves, too, as well as Indigo by Nest.
YSL Mon Paris, Givenchy L’Interdit, and Clinique My Happy Cocoa and Cashmere.
Tom Ford Black Orchid, YSL Black Opium, Geek Fire Labs Calavera (out of business).
Honorable mention: Hexennacht Inferno. I recently got it, but it’s quickly becoming a favorite.
Hale Bopp by tiziana terenzi
Night by Judith Lieber
Tribeca by Bond no 9
Nuits de Noho by Bond no 9
I feel very out of it when it comes to perfume these days. I’ve not been in a store where they sell perfumes for more than two years now. Covid and living in the countryside will do that, obviously.
I say Shalimar and Black Opium.
I am really interested in trying By the Fireplace, it sounds so interesting and so many seem to love it. However I don’t buy scents unless I’ve tried them on, so maybe I’ll get to go to a store when summer comes.
I wish more stores had samples for sale.
There are sites that sell decants like scentsplit.com and luckyscent.com
Thanks!