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Summer fragrances, first day of autumn

Already autumn, goodbye summer! Heat, summer rain, sea, sun cream, beach, sun, and good mood linked to the holidays, I suggest you prolong these beautiful moments. Smells of nature can take you directly and deliciously back to beautiful olfactory memories.

It may be a "Mediterranean" fragrance: aromatic scents or fig tree notes that are both green and fruity. To make a fig, you need woody notes (cedar most often), steemone, a delicious green note, to reproduce the green side of the fig skin, also a touch of coconut / prunolide, also called lactonic notes, coumarin can help to give a powdery almond side.

Immortelle is a flower that is not often used in perfumery. It is a typical scent of the Corsican maquis, an earthy smell heated by the sun, a hot wind that brings us a breath full of spices. I love this immortelle scent, which I had worked on in Cologne 68 (no longer available) and in Cuir Beluga.

 

 

The fresh and iodized marine notes evocative of the Atlantic, like a great tonic slap of the ocean spray: notes of calone, helium, floralozone. Parfum l'Eau d'Issey Miyake or Rem are good examples of this family.

But for many of us, the smell of holidays is linked to that of sun creams, bought for the occasion, often passed down from generation to generation. There are solar families for that, to which we are faithful, sometimes unconsciously.

Many Europeans are looking for products or fragrances that smell like sunshine amber built around salicylates. Like benzyl salicylate, an old sun filter. L'Instant by Guerlain is inspired by this atmosphere of sand and sun-warmed skin, enhanced by solar flowers: magnolia, jasmine Sambac. Terracotta is worked in the same spirit, less amber, but more fresh tuberose floral. The Americans like more the exotic scents of coconut, monoi, a little tuberose, vanilla, and make you travel as soon as you open the tube. Haiwan Tropic is the reference they like.

 

Beach scent

  • Huile prodigieuse by Nuxe
  • Bronze de Goddess by Estée Lauder with a different edition each year
  • Terracotta parfum de Guerlain (floral tuberose)
  • Replica Beach Walk by Maison Margiela (a bit marine)
  • Soleil Blanc by Tom Ford (a bit marine)
  • Musc Divin by Caudalie
  • Rem by Reminiscence (very marine)
  • Lilylang by Sylvaine Delacourte
  • Vanori by Sylvaine Delacourte

Immortelle

  • Sables by Annick Goutal
  • Eau du parfum du 68 by Guerlain
  • Eternelle immortelle by L’Occitane
  • Tabac Tabou : Perfumes of Empire by Marc-Antoine Corticchiato
  • Helicriss by Sylvaine Delacourte

Fig

  • Philosykos by Diptyque
  • Premier figuier by L’Artisan Parfumeur
  • Figuier d’Eden by Armani Privé
  • Fico di Amalfi by Acqua di Parma
  • Fleur de Figuier by Roger et Gallet
  • Jardins en Méditerranée by Hermés
  • Bois et fruits by Serge Lutens
  • Promenade des Anglais, Collection des parisiennes by Guerlain
  • Autumn Equinox Candle de Sylvaine Delacourte

 

Sylvaine Delacourte perfumes

Discover Sylvaine Delacourte's brand with her Orange Blossom, Musk and Vanilla Collections. You can try them thanks to the Discovery Boxes (5 Eaux de Parfum x 2 ml) and rediscover these raw materials as you have never smelled them before.