How to choose a winter perfume

New Delhi: Winter is almost here! Are you prepared to welcome the season of festivities with the right kind of fragrances? It is essential to choose the right perfume for the right occasion and winter months demand extra attention to make sure your personality gets the attention it needs.

Our body heat plays a very important role in the projection of the perfume we wear. It helps the perfume to project farther and evaporate faster. Perfumes with light floral, citrus or aquatic notes are more volatile and tend to get muted during the winter season.

An ideal perfume for the winters should be warmer, deeper and more concentrated perfumes for the fragrance to last longer and spread further. Thus, even if the body temperature is lower, the fragrance will still be able to make an impact or leave you feeling fresh for a longer period of time.

Let’s talk about the different kind of perfumes we can use during the winter months:

Woody perfumes

Perfumes majorly comprising woody notes are warmer, deeper and give a cosy woods like feeling. Ideal for colder months and evenings, they generally comprise woody and earthy notes like patchouli, sandalwood and cedarwood. The deep woody perfumes do great with sweet notes like amber, vanilla and cinnamon.

Green perfumes

Perfumes with fresh green notes blended with warm woody undertones are also great as daywear. The green notes like those of freshly cut grass or a green garden with blooming leaves, add that refreshing touch to the warm woody notes.

Floral perfumes

Floral perfumes are dominated by fresh floral notes. Rose and Jasmine-based floral perfumes with notes of sandalwood, amber and oudh form a great combination for the winter months. While oudh is a recent craze across the world, combining it with a floral note like rose can help you create an uplifting and warm persona.

Oriental perfumes

Oriental perfumes are considered to be the strongest of all. These are generally a combination of deep and heavy notes like oudh, oakmoss, tonka beans and patchouli and sweeter and refreshing fine scents like vanilla, amber, musk, and oriental resins like frankincense and myrrh. These are sensuous blends and sometimes consist of spicy notes as well, like pink pepper and cinnamon. These fragrances are great for evening wear of corporate events.

Miscellaneous

Some other popular notes for the winter months are tuberose and neroli for florals, oakmoss, leather, tobacco for woody notes, clove buds, star anise and cinnamon for those sensuous spicy touches. Warmer notes with higher concentration of refreshing sweet/ floral/ green overtones helps the fragrance to last longer and beat the cold chills. IANS