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What's your go-to scent for autumn?
What’s your go-to scent for autumn? Share!
Tom Ford Oud Wood or Amber Absolute!
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Lancôme La Vie Est Belle
Tom Ford Tuscan Leather. Later in the season I move to Armani Privé Bois d’Encens. For some reason that seems like fall-becoming-winter, whereas Tuscan Leather seems more like the earlier part of Fall. I probably think about this too much.
Tom Ford Velvet Orchid, love this scent.
One of my favorite fall scents is Botrytis by Ginestet.It has warm honey, dried fruit, tobacco, amber and gingerbread notes. Smells like honey,dessert wine,and tobacco. Sweet,sensual and sophisticated.
That sounds amazing!
I don’t really think of my perfumes as seasonal, but now that I think about it, I have been gravitating more towards my lighter floral, fruity scents this summer: Guerlain Petite Robe Noire and Repetto. Illamasqua Freak and Chanel Coco Noir just seemed too heavy when it’s so hot out. I have to wear Burberry Brit year round because that’s my husband’s favorite, and I wear Chanel Chance year round because that’s MY favorite. 🙂 But as it gets cooler, I will probably wear Freak and Noir more often. I just got the Marchesa Hair Mist, which doesn’t seem seasonal.
P.S. Christine, I finally got Arabian Oud Kalemat and it is not for me. 🙁 It is too heavy and – I don’t know, rich? – for me. I’m so bummed! I had such high hopes for it. It did, however, smell better on my cat. Ha! When I pick up my cats, they always smell like my perfume afterwards!
Oh no! 🙁 I’m so sorry!
I don’t have one!
Thierry Mugler Angel. Though I have my eyes on purchasing Serge Lutens De Profundis for fall/winter.
Vaniglia e Zenzero (translated: Vanilla and Ginger) EDP by Italian herboristic/cosmetic brand L’Erbolario.. delicious!!
Bvlgari White Tea or Bvlgari Omnia Crystalline!
Estee Lauder Pleasures Delight. My favorite “flanker” because it is nothing like the original, which gives me a sinus headache.
Burberry The Beat, and I’m planning on purchasing Burberry Body soon. I find this brand excels at making autumny/wintery scents.
I really liked last fall’s DKNY Fall fragrance!
Tom Ford, Tabacco Vanille or Oud Fleur
I love Estée Lauder Sensuous (the original). It’s warm and supposed to be a “woody amber” which I normally would find masculine and would not like, but it’s just warm, a little sexy and just gorgeous.
Jo Malone Dark Amber & Ginger Lily
Chanel Coromandel! Best Autumn fragrance ever! 🙂
Burberry Body which is warmer and perfect automn scent
I like 3 Jo Malone parfumes for autum: English pear and freesia, blackberry and bay, and pomegranate noir 🙂
Blackberry & Bay is a fall favorite for me also!
Prada Candy and Dolce & Gabbana Pour Femme
Oud wood for me too. But Ralph Lauren’s Romance is a year round favourite for me so that ones made the cut too.
Several Jo Malone fragrances – Nutmeg & Ginger; Vanilla & Anise; Blackberry & Bay
Also Gap Om…it is no longer manufactured but I found it last year on Amazon!
Ginestet Botrytis and Parfums DelRae Bois de Paradise are my two favorites. I also like Tom Ford’s Oud Wood, EL Sensuous. Cielo Napa Valley, which has some fig in it among other notes. I do like fig scents. For very early autumn the discontinued Fresh Fig Apricot and Gap Om, both of which I have hoarded a bit.
Jo Malone Vanilla and Star Anise.
Narciso Rodriguez for Her – for EVERY season
My go to autumn scent is Olympic Orchids Blackbird.
Lady GaGa Fame.
After doing a lot of sampling of new rose based fragrances this past August, I’ve gone mad for two new scents and will probably wear them a lot in the coming cooler months. One is La Fille de Berlin by Serge Lutens, a bright, peppery Rose soliflore that is pomegranate red in the flaçon! This one will probably be a standby rose for me all year long, no matter what the weather. The other is a dark, moody affair by Eau d’Italie called Paestrum Rose that starts out pretty much pure incense (wonderful for the holidays!) then dries down into a warm but shadowy rose/incense/precious woods harmony. Great longevity and sillage on both of these, too.
La Fille is fantastic! I’ve heard good things about Paestum Rose as well.
TF Black Orchid, Tobacco Vanille, Shalimar, Coco
Designer: Hamsa by Celine Leora (day) & Opium by YSL (night-and my favorite perfume of all time)
Inexpensive: Fame Black Fluid by Coty/Lady Gaga and whatever vanilla-spice scented body spray catches my fancy for the season.
I love musk, so it will be Bond New York Musk or Kiehl’s Original Blend No 1
Where can I buy Bond New York Musk?
I just adore Cinnebar by Estee Lauder. I buy it every fall. Red is wonderful too! I’ve been looking for a new scent that’s cinnamon-lime, warm, strong, sensual…. I like Angel too. I love perfume, but I am old school, I know.
I will just admit it now…I am one of “those” people. I wear the same scent for years once I find a signature scent. I’ve been wearing Tom Ford Violet Blonde. It’s not for everyone but for some reason it blends beautifully with my skin chemistry. I love smelling and trying all scents though. There’s just so many!
Me too, the scents I wear I have worn for years but I do tend to wear body spray more in the summer than perfume since it is so hot here, I prefer something lighter in the summers
Burberry the Original
Alien Intense Parfum
Estee Lauder Aliage. So green and wonderful!
Aliage?! Do they still make that? I wore that 30 years ago (yes I’m old!), and I loved it at the time. It is very green and woodsy, and very different to what was around then. A cab driver told me that I smelled like a “cedar chest”, which I’m guessing was not a complement, lol. I didn’t care, I still loved it. I’m going to have to go and look for a tester 🙂
Living in AZ it is still hot through the fall so I don’t typically change fragrances until end of Oct, beginning of Nov. In the winter I typically switch to Ralph Lauren Romance and sometimes Perry Ellis 360° (even though that one isn’t my husband’s favorite). Issey Miyake’s L’eau d’ Issey is one that I do wear year round though
Don’t have one! I NEED one! I haven’t a fragrance at all in 5 years!
Hm… probably Hermes Un Jardin Apres la Mousson? It has a not of black pepper that seems somehow very autumnal to me… I have no idea why, LOL!
I LOVE the Hermes Jardin series. SO lovely.
Escentric Molecules Molecule 01
Estee Lauder Modern muse chic, soooo gorgeous, so modern, so lady like!
this year, fig, Past years it’s been apple cider, labdanum, patchouli, or other fairly strong fragrances like that.
Olde Cider Haus and Cozy Sweater by Haus of Gloi.
Lamb’s Wool, Harvest Moon, and Moroccan Pumpkin Patch by Black Phoenix Alchemy Lab.
I tend to wear the same fragrances all year round! Good old original Ralph perfume. 🙂
Burberry classic:)
Lush Karma
Bottega Veneta – glorious
La Dolce Vita by Christian Dior
Clinique’s Aromatics. Always beautiful
Where can I buy Tom Ford Oud wood? Thanks
Neiman Marcus, Nordstrom, Tom Ford’s website, Saks
My signature scent is Aire, by Loewe. I only change it in summer for a lighter fragance. Usually, Essay Miyake Summer edition.
Lancôme La Vie Est Belle
Ivoire by Balmain for day and First by Van Cleef and Arpels for evening.
Balenciaga Florabotanica.
Lolita Lempicka, Prada Candy, Molinard’s Vanille (it’s fairly linear, which makes it a great fragrance to layer with other scents.), and I also love Fancy Bread by Haus of Gloi, which I wear as a comfort scent. I can’t walk by the jar of pumpkin butter without sniffing it, mmmmm!
Gucci Guilty. It’s just sensual enough for me. And a welcome change of pace from all the Marc Jacobs fragrances I favor for spring/summer. I am on the hunt for something with a more musky perfume though. Those fragrances just stir something in me.
Ormonde Jayne Ta’if is the most wonderful rose and saffron, and probably the one I associate most strongly with Autumn. Tauer’s Incense Rose is to die for, and Neela Vermiere’s Mohur is also perfect for fall.