Choose a perfume according to the season

If a person is faithful to one fragrance all year round, regardless of the season, we are talking about a "signature fragrance" or their "olfactory slogan". On the other hand, some people are sensitive to weather changes and adapt their fragrance to the seasons. This is very common in European countries, or in Canada, where the seasons are particularly marked.

Knowing your favourite season to choose your perfume

In order to choose a fragrance according to the seasons, it can be interesting to start with identifying your favourite season and realizing why you like it more than the others. This provides very interesting information about your taste in perfumery.

Following a long observation of customers' habits towards perfumes, there was made a classification which associate a personality with a specific season. 

Preamble: First of all, it is important to know that a person can belong to a few categories as, of course, there can be several facets in the personality. The categories explained below give a general outline.

 

 

1. Choosing a fragrance for spring 

Spring is a season symbolizing the renewal of nature, flowering, softness and freshness. It will attract a certain type of personality, which can be associated with the "Freshness" category.

"Freshness" category: a sparkling personality

Spring is particularly appreciated by people with the following characteristics: 

  • Personality: very lively and sparkling. These people are full of ideas, very cheerful, like to laugh, and have a lot of energy. Between partying and laziness, this person retains over time all the spontaneity of the youth. They know how to charm an interlocutor and impose their ideas with great energy. Finally, they are rather direct, not fussy and have a sporty and quite natural look.
  • Favorite scents: this person likes fragrances inspired by nature, quite figurative with aromas of fresh flowers, cut grass, watery fruit, citrus, aromatic herbs, as well as green and vegetal notes. Fresh flowers such as lily-of-the-valley, lilac, freesia, and peony are also popular.
  • Favorite beverages: In terms of drinks, this type of profile prefers drinking fresh fruit juices, lemonades, and sparkling water with a twist of lemon. As evening cocktails, they will be more tempted by Mojito, Caipirinha, champagne, or light wine. Finally, they prefer tea over coffee.
  • Favorite flavours: Attracted by everything fresh and healthy, they could be vegan. They like sunny and simple cuisine, salads and fresh fruit. Italian cuisine could also appeal to them. 
  • Favorite colours: their favourite colours are bright, clean and fresh. For example, coral, orange, apricot, bright pink, canary yellow and raw green.
  • Favorite fabrics: light, airy, natural, cotton, linen, stretch, and jeans. 
  • Outdoors: the spring personality loves picnics on the grass, bike rides, groups of friends, music and dance. 
  • A weekend of their dreams: a picnic with friends in the countryside.


Fragrances for spring

Personalities linked to freshness and spring are especially attracted by the following fragrances: 

 

 

2. Choosing a fragrance for summer

Summer attracts a certain type of personality, which can be associated with the "Air" category.

"Air" category: a very feminine personality

Summer is particularly appreciated by people with the following characteristics: 

  • Personality: very feminine, these people enjoy privacy which gives them a reserved attitude. They have a "maternal" nature, they reflect an image of tenderness, sensitivity, modesty and dreaminess (there are a certain artistic character). However, a great strength and determination are hidden behind this gentleness. People of this category tend to put forward their elegant and feminine side, without putting aside their masculinity.
  • Favorite scents: the smell of rice powder, talcum powder, delicate and powdery flowers (such as iris, violet, mimosa and peony); as well as faceted and nuanced scents. 
  • Favorite beverages: subtle orange blossom teas with jasmine or green teas; fresh fruit juices; champagne and gin cocktails and Mojito's in the evening; white wine rather than red one.
  • Favorite flavours:  light cuisine, salads, refined and elegant dishes, fish rather than meat; and light desserts. These people like to know the newest addresses of good, trendy restaurants.
  • Favorite colours: pastel tones or semi-tones, shades of blue, pale pink, beige, pale green.
  • Favorite fabrics: silk, taffeta, lace, cashmere, and all very feminine and cocooning textiles. Men especially appreciate soft wool.
  • Outdoors: beaches at the end of the day, cities where you can discover interesting, enriching, even romantic places.
  • A weekend of their dreams: a walk on the beach at the end of the day.


Fragrances for summer

Summer personalities are especially attracted by facetted, subtle and finely crafted fragrances with nuances, such as : 

 

3. Choosing a fragrance for autumn

Autumn attracts a certain type of personality, which can be associated with the "Earth" category.

"Earth" category: a calm and authentic personality

Autumn is particularly appreciated by people with the following characteristics:

  • Personality: a calm, thoughtful and determined temperament, but also very authentic (with a frankness that may surprise you). These people value friendly relationships. Sometimes they have androgynous attitude, these people dream of becoming great adventurers. They do not follow fashion very much and have their own style. These profiles could, for example, be entrepreneurs or be attracted by politics.
  • Favorite scents: the smells of the forest in autumn, the woods, the mosses, the smell of mushrooms, the smell of green grass, and the smell of fire in the chimney. Floral or sweet scents are less appreciated.
  • Favorite beverages: coffee, sliced flavours, as well as singular teas such as Chai or smoked tea; whisky, cognac; in general, red wine will be preferred over white one.
  • Favorite flavours: these profiles have a marked taste for savoury dishes and generally appreciate spices. They may also like classic dishes or those with sauces, they prefer meat.
  • Favorite colours: all shades of the earth's colours in autumn, all greens, up to khaki, dark orange and coppery tones.
  • Favorite fabrics: authentic and singular textiles are their preference. These personalities seek rarity and elitism, and like fabrics such as leather, cotton and linen.
  • Outdoors: these people like to be in contact with nature, land, forests, and enjoy Japanese gardens.
  • A weekend of their dreams: in a Sologne castle on a Chesterfield sofa, in front of a fireplace with a book.


Fragrances for autumn

Personalities associated with autumn are especially attracted by the following fragrances: 

  • Chypre scents with the scent of woody moss (see Woody Facet), such as Mitsouko. 
  • They might enjoy wearing men's woody scents like Guerlain's Vétiver.
  • Fresh and green scents like Sunday in the Country, very woody Middle Eastern scents, like oud wood, or other woody, leathery, or spicy scents.
  • Helicriss by Sylvaine Delacourte might also suit them. 
  • In general, they are not attracted by vanilla or floral fragrances.

 

4. Choosing a fragrance for winter

Winter attracts a certain type of personality, which can be associated with the "Fire" category.

"Fire" category: a remarkable personality

Winter is particularly appreciated by people with the following characteristics:

  • Personality: a temperament that changes according to the mood, this person is very theatrical, extroverted and knows how to seduce all audiences: it is impossible to forget them after a meeting. They also maintain a certain amount of mystery, and know all the trendy places. In general, these people are tactile.
  • Favorite scents: these ype of people love gourmet scents, heady white flowers, oriental notes and also appreciate intense woody notes. They especially like scents with a strong personality.
  • Favorite beverages: cappuccinos, hot chocolates, gourmet and trendy cocktails, and champagne.
  • Favorite flavours: a real epicurean, they especially appreciate cakes, sweets, and chocolate.
  • Favorite colours: cold colours such as white, black, or a combination of both of the last two, as well as dark red and blue.
  • Favorite fabrics: adept of enveloping and sensual materials, such as taffeta, cashmeres, silk, velvet, and fur. 
  • Outdoors: they do not like countryside, they are more urban, like to go out, discover new restaurants, go to museums, go shopping, and tend to be a fashion victim.
  • A weekend of their dreams: shopping and museum visits in any big city in the world.


Perfumes for winter

Personalities connected with winter appreciate the following fragrances in particular: 

  • Deep, sensual, oriental notes. A typical customer of the "Fire" category, for example, will buy a fragrance like Shalimar by Guerlain. They are especially attracted by fragrances with a trail (such as oriental or amber scents).
  • Fragrances with heady white flowers (see Floral Family).
  • Vol de Nuit by Guerlain may suit them too, since it is a chypre and oriental scent.
  • Men might like scents like Guerlain's Habit Rouge, as well as ouds, leathers and woody scents with a present trail (see Oriental or family, Leather Facet).
  • The following fragrances from Sylvaine Delacourte could be suitable for "Fire" personalities: Osiris, Ozkan, Valkyrie, Vangelis, Virgile, Vanori.

 

 

Fragrances according to the seasons 

Here is a classification of olfactory families and facets according to the seasons to which they correspond best. You can find a precise list of references of many fragrances on the market on the following pages:

Citrus family
Fern family
Eaux de Cologne
Fresh water
Green facet
New Freshness Facet
Marine facet

Floral family
Powdery facet
Solar facet
Woody family

Cypre family
Woody family
Leather facet

Oriental or amber family
Leather facet
Spicy facet
Gourmand facet

 

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