Warm, aromatic and spicy, this blends glowing amber with mineral salt notes, fired up with incense. The blend is smoooooth, cosy and elegant – like stopping by the fire in a swishy hotel on a crisp autumn evening.
The best aromatic spicy autumn perfume
Molton Brown Re-Charge Black Pepper Eau de Parfum
This unisex scent offers an invigorating fragrance for autumn days. Fresh, spicy and woody, it conjures a bracing walk through woods when the weather is crisp. Bergamot uplifts in the top notes, black and pink pepper in the heart give spiciness and earthy green vetiver keep things deliciously grounded.
The best earthy vanilla autumn perfume
Victoria Beckham Beauty 21:50 Reverie Eau de Parfum
Victoria Beckham has released her fourth (and we’re betting, most popular) fragrance, this time centred around vanilla. If you’re not usually a vanilla girl, this one might be for you. It’s a more grown up, and less sugary take on dark, raw vanilla. Grassy tobacco adds a little smokiness, tonka bean bestows a very subtle creaminess and cedarwood gives a dry woodiness to the scent. It’s sexy, it’s warm and it’s intriguing.
The best vintage skin scent
Maison Francis Kurkdjian APOM Eau De Parfum
APOM (an acronym for A Part Of Me), taps up the anatomy of some of the great perfume classics, reinvented for a modern audience. It has a soft whisper of amber, musk and vanilla that conjures the delicate incense of Guerlain Shalimar, while lavender and orange blossom lend a gentle modern sweetness to the fragrance, while weaving in the DNA of current smash hits (like YSL Libre, which features the same floral notes). For MFK, this is a softer, airier scent to some of it’s ’80s shoulder pad perfumes (see: Grand Soir), and offers a cosy girl skin scent with its sweet, powdery incense that feels equal parts vintage and trailblazing.
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The best soft vanilla autumn perfume
Phlur Vanilla Skin Eau de Parfum
The latest squad member from Phlur, Vanilla Skin is kind of what it says on the bottle: a vanilla skin scent. Sugar and apple in the top notes give sweetness, but cashmere wood in the middle and vanilla and woods in the base temper the scent to give it a soft, nuzzly creaminess that melts into skin.
The best edgy autumn perfume
Tom Ford Black Lacquer Eau de Parfum
If you want a scent that smells like cold, shiny, hard plastic (IYKYK), Tom Ford has captured it exactly with Black Lacquer. It’s edgy, intriguing and offbeat, if you’re looking for a scent like no other. The blend seeks to recreate notes of ink, vinyl, rum, black pepper and ebony wood. Peony and apricot add the sweet fumes that vinyl emits and olibanum adds a resinous spice to the base.
The best unisex autumn scent
Jo Malone Hinoki & Cedarwood Cologne Intense
Jo Malone’s latest fragrance is a breath of fresh air, quite literally. Inspired by the Japanese principal of forest bathing, it was concocted to reconnect us with nature. It’s fresh and woody, like clean air whistling through woods on a hillside and to me, it has a slightly soapy feel to it, too. This is an softly exhilarating scent that brings stompy outdoorsiness to you in a single spritz.
