A green scent is pure escapism. A freshly mown lawn, an almost overripe fig, the sun-blistered bark of a cedar tree – these are all the nostalgic notes that evoke a lazy summer’s day, and with just one spritz and a bit of imagination, I could be sunbathing under a copse of trees in the Mediterranean.
“I think their appeal comes from their ability to make fragrance feel both uplifting and grounding at once,” Almira Armstrong, perfumer and founder of LUMIRA tells me.
