There’s a version of a spring scent that’s all freshness: easy breezy vibes. And certainly, we all want a bit of a refresh when the weather starts to warm. But as the snow melts and the days get longer, what’s really happening? The plant life around us, a complex network of stems, leaves, flowers, and trees, begins to upload nutrients from the thawing soil below. Cooling and zippy humidity, spicy and green energy, and the invisible songs of new flowers come storming into the air, like a crowd pouring back out to the theatre lobby after a secret show.
It’s this new vibrancy, both floral and earthy, chilled but warming, that these scents remind us of. Many contain these contrasts within their evolution – fading from sheer to delicious, from new green growth to a delicate coziness. All of them, we think, have the potential to make you feel renewed.
MAISON CRIVELLI
A modern, abstracted neroli casts long, honeyed shadows on an impossibly sheer leather accord. Clean, transcendent warmth.
HEELEY PARFUMS
Chic as a French film and easy as a walk in the park, Heeley’s bracingly modern update of the “chypre” archetype is seamless, sumptuous, and suffused with light.
JORUM STUDIO
Fruit flesh and riotous flowers burst through the grey, settling on a snarling earthy musk below. Both cheekily old-school and shockingly new.
ETAT LIBRE D’ORANGE
Green and creamy, unique but breezy. This olfactory fantasy of an L.A. everywoman is unisex magic, merging skin with stem, ambition with freedom.
MONSILLAGE
Crisp springtime in a bottle, as invigorating as a chilled breeze caressing rose bushes and old-growth barks. An optimistic inhale of new beginnings.
MATIERE PREMIERE
A buttery laser beam of freshly farmed, organic tuberose awakens and sings. A windows-open, painfully pretty new day dawns.
CREED
A spicy, effervescent garden of ginger and herbs scattering on a weightless base of tonka and sandalwood. A perfect example of how dynamic classic perfumery can be.
ESCENTRIC MOLECULES
A velvety-woody bassline anchors a spring-plucked airy tea note. A dewy mist hovering over magically magnetic skin.
ORMONDE JAYNE
Like the snowy pink piles of delicate blossoms falling from spring’s cherry trees: a watercolour in scent. Effortless, delicate, and delicious.
MELEG PERFUMES
A rustic ode to earth and sunshine, this atmospheric scent cleanses and anchors in equal measure. The wild textures of a new frontier.
SPRING AWAKENINGS SAMPLE PACK
Ten fragrances which smell the way spring feels. Featuring 0.7ml samples of Neroli Nasimba, Chypre 21, Nectary, You or Someone Like You, Dupont Circle, Sakura, French Flower, Live Meaningful Work, Molecule 01+ Black Tea, and Original Santal.
