Saturday Question: What perfumes do you enjoy wearing in the opposite season it’s intended for?

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Hello Fellow Fumies,

At APJ we have a Saturday Question. Everyone gets to chime in with an answer, chat with other responders and it’s a fun event each week. Taking sides never means taking offence and everyone keeps it respectful and light, even though we can sometimes trawl the depths.

The idea is you’ll see it on the weekend or chime in through the week. Hopefully you will come back regularly and see if anyone has responded to your comment and you can reply to them. The aim is to generate real conversation and connection even though we are scattered around the globe.

Saturday Question: What perfume do you enjoy wearing in the opposite season it’s intended for?

Another fabulous Brigitte question.

Do you? I definitely do. LOVE to wear arctically cool fragrances in the snow and super intricate and heavy ones in the heat.

My Answer:

COLD WEATHER

Black Rosette by Strange Invisible Perfumes

This fragrance is weird AF! It wears totally differently depending on weather and mood. In the freezing cold of travelling through Europe its iciness becomes intoxicating. Like that first violent shock of plunging into cold water at the Korean baths after laying in the hot for ten minutes.

Cartier II: L’Heure Convoitée

A cool breeze with fluffy and powdery snow. L’Heure Convoitée was bought in the middle of a snowy winter in Prague from the Cartier store near the clock. Whenever I wear its arctic, fruity, furriness I am instantly transported back to that time. One of the most beautifully produced fragrances I own.

HOT WEATHER

The Aoud by Mancera

A gift from one of our BFFs, Alice, before I’d even heard of the brand. Bought at Selfridge & Co. My first wearing of it was on a summer Sydney day. A dark, woodsy, medicinal push replication that sings in the heat. I feel like a sheik from the Hollywood movies on a camel in the dessert.

Ubar by Amouage

The thick, ropey, luscious tendrils of Ubar bloom in unimaginably beautiful ways in the heat. I was first surprised by its performance in the deserts of Rajasthan, India. Somehow it has the trick of making the oppressive heat bearable, even comfortable to be in.

My Saturday Question to you is:

What perfume do you enjoy wearing in the opposite season it’s intended for?

47 thoughts on “Saturday Question: What perfumes do you enjoy wearing in the opposite season it’s intended for?”

  3. In the heat of summer Absolu Pour le Soir and Winter Woods. The heat amps up the sweetness of both. In my distant past Giorgio was worn in the summer because that was the season when I purchased my first bottle of it as a teenager.
    In the cold of winter a citrus pick me up – Orange Sanguine, Assam of India or Paramela. In my distant past I also wore vintage Cristalle in the winter and early spring. Back in the day it had a hefty dose of oakmoss which gave it depth.

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  4. I’m more likely to grab a spring or summer perfume during the winter than one of my heavier perfumes in the summer. Heat and humidity for me require light citrus!

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  5. I followed a lovely older lady around the supermarket in what was a 40c day. I knew the fragrance, and she smelled gorgeous. It got the better of me and I asked what she was wearing. It was Aromatics Elixir. So far from what I’d reach for on a hot day. Needless to say I found my bottle and wore it the next day.

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    • Oh yes!!! A former ballet dancer friend of mine wore it year round. In the summer heat after a sweaty ballet class it always smelled amazing on her. I need to get my nose on it again.

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  8. Ohh yeah, i wear a lot of Allegoria Limon Verde – Guerlain in the fall or winter, even if it’s a super citrusy light scent, and also in the heat i go often with Tonka Imperiale from Guerlain or Honey Aoud from Montale, simply because i love them and don’t care about the season 😃

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  9. I wear Vintage Shalimar perfume in all seasons. I expect most people would consider it an autumn/winter perfume. Same with Salome, but it is absolutley spectacular in summer!
    Oh! And Musc Ravageur!! It wears beautifully in summer but a fairly light application is called for.
    The winter is far too long here. As much as the heavy hitting cold weather perfumes are my favorite category, every now and again I need a dose of flowers or lightness. Carnal Flower and Un Jardin Sur Le Nil fit the bill. I often crave vintage Arpège in winter, but I think it’s an all season perfume. It seems to me that many of the classics were conceived as year long scents. Probably because people were more likely to have a signature scent for daily wear. Fragrances created for seasonal wear seems to be a relatively modern concept.

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  10. I don’t feel that perfumes have a season. They have a mood. So I wear by mood not weather. I wear ouds, leathers, spicy, amber, etc more in winter and fall but I also wear them in summer and spring. I wear florals a lot in spring but I also fell the ache for them in winter. I wear aquatics and citrus in summer but I reach for them in winter, too. So, no limits, no boundaries.

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  12. Actually, I prefer wearing orientals in the summer and light citrus scents in the winter, so for me it’s more “wearing perfumes that are generally supposed to be worn in the opposite season they’re intended for”. However, there’s one olfactive family I don’t usually wear when it’s hot outside: chypres, but one can see me sporting Mitsouko or Vol de Nuit even in July which tends to be the hottest month in the south of Russia.

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  13. I usually follow my internal “designation” for each perfume and don’t think I ever “stray away” from that. But I can think at least of one perfume, my own season for which is different from others do, from what I read: I wear L’Artisan Traversee du Bosphore only in tropical weather.

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  14. vintage eau sauvage in winter and givenchy gentleman in summer. But I think I violate seasonal norms all the time because my mood and even more my latest purchase determines fragrance more than anything at the moment. I do not usually buy fragrances according to seasons but according to deals…

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    • The final sentence of your comment made me smile, not sure why, but it sounds funny. But I agree with you: this is my approach as well. Though, after I bought a bottle, I might not open it … until the “appropriate” season (by my internal calendar, of course).

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      • Undina and Cassieflower, because it is really true in my case ;)..I don’t care if its raining fire outside; if there is a good deal on vintage opium edt, for instance, you bet I am aiming my crossbow at it!

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  15. Probably my main one would be Tauer’s Lonestar Memories. I’m in a minority that prefers this to l’Air du Desert Marocain, for a start. On Fragrantica, the congnoscenti (see what I did there?) rate this a overwhelmingly as a winter-autumn scent. I like to wear this in summer though; its leathery-smoky-petrol vibe reminds me of heading out into the bush on a glaring hot day to have an open fire BBQ with friends and family, a quintessentially Aussie summer thing.

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  16. I don’t really wear fragrances per a designated season, so likely I often wear perfume for the opposite seasons it is meant. Like many have mentioned, I wear perfumes based on mood and scent memories. I tend not to wear citrusy or aquatic fragrances, so I don’t have those for the likely intended warmer months. And I adore ambers, vanillas, animalics, complex florals, and vintages which I wear year-round.

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