Ahhh the arrival of the cooler months make us want to grab those fragrances that feel warm and rich and cocooning. Like an open fireplace and the perfect cocktail on a blustery winter night, these fragrances suit the cooler weather perfectly. We’ve curated a selection of earthy, florals, gourmands, green and musky scents that we think fit the season to a tee and that you will love.
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Notes:
Top: Black Tea, Lime
Middle: Cardamom, Lily of the Valley, Black Pepper, Mandarin
Base: Mysore Sandalwood, Tan Leather
An ethereal fragrance if ever there was one. This scent feels like a warm, tingly embrace from Mother Nature herself. As soothing as a cup of herbal, spicy, milky chai, yet as invigorating as a brisk walk in the forest.
2.
Heretic Parfum
Notes:
Top: Geranium, Coriander, Frankincense, Cedar, Juniper, Black Pepper
Middle: Moroccan Rose, Black Currant, Lily Accord
Base: Patchouli, Sandalwood, Oud, Styrax
Florals for winter but make them dark and seductive; like the most perfectly balanced witch’s potion. Voodoo Lily gives us a velvety smooth earthly floral that smolders with depth as it develops magically on the skin.
3.
Notes:
Top: Orange blossom, Bergamot, Green tea
Middle: Rice, Clay, Lily, Iris, a drop of Turkish Rose
Base: White musk, Incense, Sandalwood, Vetiver, Tonka, Guaiac Wood
Naked Dance has managed to capture the beauty in the mundane – your favourite jumper, your go-to coffee mug, warm bedsheets, skin to skin contact. It’s warm, creamy, milky, and musky in a slightly dirty way.
4.
Goldfield & Banks
Notes:
Top: Agarwood Tropical Australia, Cinnamon Ceylon
Middle: Tobacco Leaves, Ylang Ylang
Base: Madagascar Vanilla Tahiti, Sandalwood Australia, Incense
Vanilla goes rich and earthy and oh-so-deliciously luxurious with Goldfield & Banks’ Silky Woods – and we love it! There is a complex depth to this fragrance and huge silage that keeps you in its wonderfully warmly scented cocoon.
5.
Imaginary Authors
Notes:
Douglas Fir
Pine Resin
Western Hemlock
Vanilla Leaf
Strawberry
Old Growth
Mountain Fog
Living up to its name – Cape Heartache is romantic, and also a little melancholic. Strawberry is the protagonist in this fragrance, but it’s the forest greenery and shrubbery it’s embedded in that makes it interesting.
6.
Notes:
Black Pepper, Mineral Notes, Oud, Musk
Like a tall, dark and mysterious stranger, this scent has a sense of trouble about it, in the best way. Think speeding down a highway in a getaway car, swigging on a bottle of Mezcal for liquid courage, tires screeching in arid heat, hundred dollar bills flying out the window. Wear this, and have everyone in the room you walk into whisper: “who is that?”.
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Notes:
Top: Bergamot (Italy), Basil (Egypt), Black pepper (Madagascar), Ginger (India), Violet Leaf
Middle: Cardamom (India), Cedarwood (USA), Cypress (France)
Base: Sandalwood (Australia), Patchouli (Indonesia), Vetiver (Haiti)
Wearing Agati feels like walking through a forest with bare feet, your whole being connected to cool earth, every sense heightened. It’s like a hug from Mother Nature, gently enveloping you as it reminds you that you’re never alone – you are connected to everything as it is to you.
8.
Notes:
Frankincense, Myrrh, Palo Santo, Buddawood, Sandalwood, Cedarwood, Cypress, Cassia, Juniper, Turkish Rose
The perfect bush incense fragrance, it’s evocative of a tiny old, weatherboard church tucked away in the outback. Strangely, there is something kind of fresh and even dare we say juicy about it after the opening, redolent of a crisp chilled red wine.
9.
Mihan Aromatics
Notes:
Top: Bergamot, Australian Blue Cypress, Cypress
Middle: Black Pepper, Fir Needle
Base: Frankincense, Vetiver, Labdanum, Himalayan Cedarwood, Elemi
The scent of a morning camping in the Otways, the cool greenness of the rainforest floor and lush ferns mingling with the scent of warm coals left over from last night’s campfire.
10.
Imaginary Authors
Notes:
Geranium
Spanish Rose
Patchouli
Black Musk
Tobacco
Sandalwood
Bull’s Blood
Strong and bold, like the flash of a matador’s red cape. Bull’s Blood is brutal and elegant, raw yet refined. It has a kind of old-world feel to it we can’t quite put our finger on, and that blood accord… wow.
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So that’s it, our top 10 winter fragrance recommendations! Don’t let the seasons limit you though. The rules of fragrance at Lore are that there are no rules! Wear what you love! Explore our full range of fragrance here:
