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Hannah Tindle

What makes a ‘winter perfume’? The Wallpaper* guide to fragrances that linger on the skin and in the air

Winter perfume: Dior Esprit de Parfum perfume collection.

What makes a ‘winter perfume’?

Our sensory experiences are inextricably seasonal: through the materials we wear, the food we consume and subsequently, our relationship with taste and smell. In the same way that savouring a rich mug of hot chocolate during the height of August has little appeal, dousing oneself with crisp and ozonic fragrance notes can be somewhat jarring when it’s bitterly cold outside.

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