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Winter’s Biggest Fragrance Trends Offer a Scent for Every Mood
Winter is about getting cozy on the sofa with a fluffy blanket, but it can also mean dressing up in your sparkliest outfit and clinking champagne glasses at midnight. It’s ice, snow, and bracing winds one moment, then roaring fireplaces the next. The season’s duality is reflected in this winter’s biggest fragrance trends. “We enter a season that craves shelter and shock in equal measure,” says Douglas Little, Heretic Parfum founder.
There are sharp, icy scents that smell like a brisk walk in the snow, whether that’s in the mountains of Hokkaido or a forest in the Adirondacks. There are deeply sensual fragrances that use musk, leather, and white florals to evoke the scents and sensations of hiding under the sheets with someone you love. The prevalence of pink pepper gives many winter perfume launches the brightness and effervescence of a bottle of bubbly on New Year’s Eve.
Overall, “winter fragrances are leaning warmer and more inviting, but still with a modern, fresh vibe,” says LaRen Johnson, fragrance expert at ScentMatch. “They wrap you up like a soft blanket but still carry a cool, sophisticated edge, perfect for a season that mixes comfort with celebration.” Keep reading to find the perfect scent, no matter your mood or preference for getting through the cold winter months.
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Fragrance Is Getting Friskier
Many of winter’s new fragrances belong on a different type of naughty list. While perfume has long been associated with sex and sensuality, this season many brands are being more overtly erotic, whether through notes, narratives, new technologies, or a combination of all three.
Perfumers have plenty of ways to create sexy and sensual fragrances. “Florals like rose, tuberose, or jasmine can be deeply seductive and narcotic; spices like pepper, clove, or cardamom can convey intriguing heat,” says Varghese. “Ambery resin, rum, tobacco, and vanilla give off a warmth, sensuality, depth and allure. Musk is also known for its sensual, primal, and quietly sexy character, while leather—which is very trendy right now—can be used to induce a raw, animalic, and provocative scent.”
The latest titillating scents check off all of the above: ALTAIA Woo(e)d Eau de Parfum, combines cardamom and leather to draw people in for a whiff.
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