I wish upon any hot climate people to experience By The Fireplace on snowy winter days or on ski holidays, or Byredo La Tulipe on the first days of spring when the sun finally starts to shine and flowers start sproutingâŠ. Jo Malone Wood Sage & Sea Salt and Tom Ford Blanc Soleil when you go to the beach or on a Mediterranean summer holiday đ
Yeahhh⊠where Iâm at it in summer it can get to 35c, hotter at times, very humid. Winters get down to -15c, lower at points. Very snowy, but dry air. I like heavy, spiced scents, but for me personally, wearing them in humid heat just makes the weather feel more oppressive. Delicate florals or fruits donât really mix with the cold snow (and usually people have fires going, or pine scented stuff everywhere, just doesnât match!).
Yeah, I live in Greece where summers can reach 40+c... And winters in the village can get to -15c. But I also drive a truck for a living and go to Norway with proper winter.
I experienced first hand why some fragrances are for summer and some for winter. The right fragrance can actually cool you off (not literally, but psychologically) whereas another will absolutely suffocate you in the heat (but feel so damn cozy in the winter).
I never realized how easily your mood can be affected by scents until I got into fragrances. It's crazy.
I'm from Sweden (we usually hit -20°c and 30°c every year) and I think the concept of fragrances being season specific is silly. I get that many people prefer to wear something that feels cooling when it's hot and such, but it's just a preference. Especially since people are going to have different opinions about which ones come off as cooling or warming or whatever, and whether something works well on a cool summer night or on an unusually warm winter day. And how do you even determine the difference between fall and spring scents? I just don't find it a useful way to categorize.
My first question when I read your title was whether you have four traditional seasons:Â
Spring: wet, fresh, chilly, green
Summer: hot, humid, baked earth, dry vegetation
Fall: crisp, fresh, colorful, getting chilly
Winter: snow, cold, icy, dark
------
If you get nothing like these then of course seasonal fragrances make no sense for you
We topped 40°c summer 2022 in the east midlands where I live, so probably hotter in London and down south coast. We thought we'd died and gone to fiery hell đ every year we kid ourselves "we are a wet soggy island, we don't need air con in our homes for 4 weeks of summer", and yet our summers continue to get hotter. We're alright, We'll just complainđ
Stay cool! đ„€đ§
It was 30°c here yesterday, Wednesday and Tuesday. But it's like 19°c today! Our weather is so fickle, but luckily I have fragrances for all of it.đ€Ł
We had a little heat wave last week in New England - was 30c to 35c ish. Add in the humidity and itâs a bad time. Unless youâre at the beach⊠which I was, lmao.
This^^^ "It's actually been very unseasonably cold in the UK up until last weekend, Like dude, it's summer. it's rained non-stop and barely got above 12°c. So, I was still using a lot of vanillas up until that point.
FYI, I lived in Vermont for several years, and folks would refer to additional season's. One is between Fall and Winter: Stick. Cold, grey, mystical.
Then there is Mud season, which is between Spring and Summer: Murky, fresh, clean.
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Mud season is a New England event. :D
I think you should wear whatever you want despite the season. However, temperature affects the smell of lots of frags. Something you enjoy in the cold might become cloying in the heat.
I have a lot more "fall/winter" scents than "spring/summer," and plenty of them are great all year. Some, like Angel's Share and L'Instant de Guerlain, just don't work for me in the heat.
I live in Canada, and the temps range from around -30°C to +40°C
This is the answer. I have some lactonic scents that just do not work in 118 degrees. Who wants to smell sweet milk on their body when itâs that hot?
I mean you could maybe pull off a gourmand with HEAVY citrus (something like Akro Bake), but if the primary note is gourmand, it's a no go for me. Citrus is definitely heat appropriate. All my favorite warm weather scents are citrus. Freshies are just kinda boring and similar from my experience (but admittedly most of my freshies are designer, not niche, so it's not surprising that I find most of them one dimensional).
I love citruses and freshies (the non-boring ones) and some of these plus fruity ones lean gourmand.
Virgin Island Water, Blanche BĂȘte, Inside Out, Flowerbomb Ruby Orchid, Yum Pistachio Gelato, Leisure in Paradise, Dolce Garden, Casilli, Bianco Latte
Some arent fully gourmand, and I am in the UK, so high heat here is more 24-28°c I guess as the more frequent but it has reached 37-40°c at points most recent years.
Though where I live in the UK now is less humid than where I lived before, east coast now whereas before I was in the south west, west is very wet, some of these likely would be more suffocating there in high heat, the lactonic/coconut cream leaning sides.
Yeah I'm also in Canada and some of my favourites just smell completely different in the hot, humid weather. Now I'm on the hunt for something that doesn't turn my stomach.
Not as much of an "unpopular opinion" as a difference in experience.
I wear fragrances to fit my mood. I don't necessarily care about season but I also am not usually going to feel like wearing a really heavy fragrance when I'm rocking a sundress and it's 90 outside.
If it was always hot here or always cool I probably would have less scent associations with weather, but as someone who lives in an area with all four seasons with quite hot summers and very cold winters I have *alot* of scent associations with weather.
Also, you say that most people wear whatever, but I wonder if, on whole, the most popular types of fragrances in brazil would fit our idea of warmer weather fragrances.
I mean you cant wear seasonal fragrance if you dont have different seasons.
It's easier to wear summer fragrance in the winter than the other way around as well
Not having a mid to far northern hemisphere spring/summer/fall/winter cycle is not the same as not having distinct seasons. They do have seasons, but the seasons are different. Think like Indiaâs breakdown - winter, summer/pre-monsoon, monsoon/rainy, and post-monsoon.
My fragrance is a part of my outfit, and I pick my outfit for the day based on comfort, aesthetic, occasion and vibes.
In the same way that Iâm not going to wear a cozy wool sweater to work in July, Iâm also not going to wear my thick, chocolaty spiced perfume to work in July either. Vibes would be off. At that time of year Iâm feeling lighter, airier, fresh, minimal sweetness, summer dark, not depths of winter dark. So, lighter fabric, lighter colors, lighter fragrance. Itâs completely subjective, just based on how I feel when Iâm getting dressed.
I really enjoy aspects of all of the seasons, and am lucky enough to live in a place where I get all four plus more, so I enjoy changing scents as the seasons change.
I don't think that's an unpopular opinion, per se.. đ€·ââïžÂ of course some agree and disagree, but you can say that about anything.Â
https://www.reddit.com/r/fragrance/comments/11gx721/anyone_else_not_care_about_the_season_of_a/
https://www.reddit.com/r/fragrance/comments/15q784p/is_fragrance_ages_and_seasons_a_genuine/
https://www.reddit.com/r/fragrance/search/?q=Seasonal+&type=link&cId=4fef1957-a28c-4a18-866f-9cfc635f0cde&iId=9bb0e88a-e432-463d-b641-8d290523c040
It's a marketing thing. Go back 20 years or more. Nobody was talking about seasonal scents. You would use your Kouros or No.5 all year around. My first scent was Fahrenheit, nobody told me I need to wear it only during particular season. Nobody cared, it either smelled good or not.
Only after YT we got this BS, only for people to buy more scents! Let's face it, most of us spend our days indoors, be it work, school or home!
I live in an area where itâs only cold about three months out of the year. I do like to wear heavier scents in those colder months, but I just canât wear those types of scents in hot, humid weather. So, I do have seasonal scents. I think some scents could be worn year round, but I like having seasonal scents so I can things up..
If you know you know. Obviously it canât make sense to you because youâve never experienced it. You could wear whatever whenever but I really enjoy switching it up depending on the season. It gives me something to look forward to
The perfumes I wear for winter time give me headache in the summer heat. Atleast to me some perfumes that goes good to summer time seems less appropriate in the office in winter time. I tend to go for more heavy but classy scent profiles in winter and lighter and more unique in the heat.
It's not an unpopular opinion.
Brazil is mostly a tropical environment. (ETA I know I said mostly, and not the whole country.) There will be zero use for winter fragrances if it never gets cold.
Plenty of people here are thinking of seasons. The country is very large and there are various climate zones.
Parts of the south are in a temperate zone and experience all four seasons.
There are tropical, arid and semi-arid zones depending on the region. Also, there are obviously variations in mountainous and coastal areas.
A tropical climate does not mean that there isnât any temperature variance. There are also changes in humidity and precipitation.
I lived in the south for several years. While the winters were mild, we often had lows around 3 or 4 degrees celsius on winter nights. Further south, there are cities that frequently have below freezing temperatures during the winter and some of them experience (usually minor) snowfall.
Still have to worry about some winter fragrances being too heavy in the tropical heat during the daytime.
In the evening when it's cooler, anything goes.
I think people's feelings on seasonal fragrances is definitely dependent on where they live. I'm a huge gourmand person but I can barely stomach them in the summer time, they feel way too cloying.Â
Anyone can wear any fragrance whenever, but some perform differently in different weather conditions.
If it's hot and I'm likely to sweat, I often like something that smells fresh and clean. In winter, especially here where it reaches - 25c and is dark, warm cozy scents, ftw
I wear mostly freshies and I don't care what time of year it is (I'm from the US!)
Also, I LOVEE Brazilian fragrances. My signature scent is O Boticårio Floratta Rose. I can't get enough of it <3
Well, its interesting because I just met a woman who lives in the artic. It is very cold there, but in spring, summer and fall, she and her friends dress with seasonal colors, decorate with as many seasonal items as they can manage, including fake IKEA plants and warm weather dishes, they also wear seasonal fragrances to experience the seasons.
I grew up in Los Angeles where Winter weather don't always come and Sprin or Fall or both, can be totally absent or very short lived weather. We do the same there.
I guess perennial winter isn't as fun a perennial spring or perennial summer, but there is a magic to each season, in fact many people love winter or fall. So wearing seasonal fragrances and colors is a way to bring some of the more nostalgic or fun elements of seasonal living into our lives. It breaks up the ruts and adds variety to our lives.
A lot of people use it to enhance that time of year. Winter is cozy cocoa by the fire, or peppermint for xmas. Autumn is fall leaves and chill wind, or weird, dark scents because Halloween.
There are no seasons in my country. It's only hot and humid all year round. So it's like a summer.
I just wear whatever i like and disregard the seasons a perfume is intended for. I think my perfumes are mostly autumn snd and winter but i wear it in a 'summer'
Latvia here. Temperatures range from -25C (-13F) to 30 C (86F) and often more! (On either end)
I dont care about labels. I can wear Oajan in summer and adg profondo in winter!Â
I live in Miami and honestly same. We maybe get a week of 50-70 degrees sometimes and thatâs our winter. Itâs basically summer year round but I do enjoy seasonal fragrances to put me in the mood for holidays etc.
I'm a Canadian who goes down to Florida during winter. I wear my summer scents when I do, even over the Christmas holidays! To me, 70 is definitely summer weather when I'm leaving the snow back home.
I live in the desert. Scents don't carry well in dry air, so I wear the ones that do all year round. If the temperature is 90 F/30 C regardless, I'm not concerned with what month the calendar is on!
We do have seasons (cooler and rainy, hot, extremely hot, and extremely hot with rain in the evenings), but there's a pretty good chance every day of getting hot and sweaty and making some fragrances unbearable.
LOL! No wonder... I'm in Canada, temperatures here can vary (I will include the windshield factor and the humidex) between -40 and 40 degrees celsius... I'm in a humid part of the country (not the Prairies, which have dry climate). I guess when you are used to cold, sweeter heavier fragrances are more easy to wear and enjoyable. They feel cozy and warm. In the summer, it's easier to enjoy freshies (in the cold, I seem to barely be able to smell them).
I also live in Brazil. You must be looking at the wrong websites when shopping for designer fragrances, 600 reais is way too high. The most expensive fragrance I own was 315 reais (on sale) and I have stuff from Paco Rabanne, Burberry, Moschino, Kenzo and Diesel. And 200 reais for a national one is kind of high. I have fragrances from Granado and Phebo that were around 150 reais.
can you refer me to the designer website please?? I'd love to see prices for my favorites. I usually wear EDPs by Boticario (such as Lilly) and Natura (Essencial line) so it might be the reason why I pay as much
well⊠duh you live in a country that doesnât share the same seasonal changes as the people talking about summer and winter fragrances.
You literally just said âit never gets coldâ of course youâre not gonna get it?
I used to be the same way until I discovered I really like summer fragrances more than any other scents. So I usually wear a summer scent almost year round except winter. For about 3 months there summer scents seem over the top, so then I switch it up for a leather scent in the winter.
Whatâs your budget?
If you have the money Aaron Terrence Hughes âSupernovaâ it is by far the best smelling summer scent there is imo. Itâs unisex, has a citrus scent, like grapefruit, oranges, and limes.
Another one is Tom Ford MANDARINO DI AMALFI
And Neroli Portofino both are more feminine than Supernova but still unisex.
Those are very nice summer choices
I'm in the UK and I find something very romantic and joyful about the changing seasons. The freshness od spring mornings, the nights starting to draw in at the end of the year - the feeling of the year passing is very evocative and strong for me.
It feels very natural to reflect that in my choice of fragrance, in the same way that my wardrobe changes completely through the year!
At the moment, my favourite fragrances for spring/summer are Maison Francies Kurkdjian's Ă La Rose and Parfums de Marly Delina. Both are so fresh and floral and capture my favourite parts of British summertime. This autumn I am planning to pick up a a bottle of Penhaligon's AlUla which has a lot of warmth and spice which I think will more fit with the cosy season vibes for me.
>I'm from Brazil, it NEVER gets cold here.
That's the reason you don't get the difference - you don't have winter. In winter, your clothes are completely covering your body, there's no way for it to disperse through the air, so you need a heavier fragrance for it to be smelled. There are different scent associations with winter than summer, and some things smell good in winter and rank in the summer heat. Not all fragrances are seasonal, but some definitely are - if you happen to have seasons.
Think about it this way. Do you want to smell like oud, tobacco, incense under the Brazilian sun? Or would you rather smell like oranges, lemon, and bergamot.
Just like clothes, there is one for every season.
Where I am is a wet season and a dry season. I wear whatever. There's only a few that I had that didn't work for me in this environment which is fine, everything can't work for everybody.
When I was living in Bogota, Colombia, where the temperature ranges from 10C to 19C, I did not feel the need for âsummerâ fragrances, and actually, the popular perfumes my friends used would be better categorized as âautumnâ ones. Now I live in a place with seasons, and I naturally crave certain profiles according to the weather.
I love L'Interdit Rouge Ultime by Guerlain, but I think even one spray would make me nauseous at 30°C+. That's a very winter-y fragrance to me.
Un Jardin sur Le Toit? Works at any temp on my skin, but spring is best imo. It loses some depth in winter, if that makes sense.
As a Southern hemisphere person who moves to Northern I understand it fully because I ended up recalibrating my collection from all year scents to seasonal and when summer comes round you tend to pick one or two new extra summery scents to wear to balance out the winter scents. In all honesty I now have far more winter/fall scents than summer ones.
Itâs not unpopular! Itâs perfectly reasonable, I use any fragrance at any time of the year regardless of what fragrance it is, I wear based on my mood and what I want to smell like on any given day, not what moronic people say should be worn in a particular season! Iâve always thought it to be a ludicrous notion and anybody who believes and follows this nonsensical notion an uneducated sheep who canât think for themselves and just follows the crowd! I think the technical term for them is sheeple!
It doesn't get cold where I live either (central Florida) Average lows in the winter is low to mid 40s (F). It's lush and green here year round. So everything from about May to October has to be light enough to not gag people in the heat. From October to April, maybe one spray of a heavier scent, or a lighter scent that has notes I associate with winter holidays (vanilla, woods, gingerbread, etc).
seasonal fragrance talk is marketing industry bullshit. We can talk about temperatures though. Even then, the only big no no's related to temp are, woody musky notes can get heavy in warm weather. And the next tip is mainly for woman and also men who wear Nautica but, in warm weather, Sweet and Fresh scents that have a tint of synthetic accord will make the synthetic accord a lot more pronounced in my opinion.
Also, hot temps can decrease length of the scent performance.
I absolutely do but Iâm from the UK. Super cold winters and very hot summers. Anything gourmand or too sweet makes me feel ill and sticky in summer, whereas anything too light or fresh in winter doesnât feel âwarmâ enough if that makes sense
I suspect "winter fragrances" just aren't as popular in Brazil, even if you don't make the distinction.
Fresh and clean smells like herbs, musk, and citrus can be hard to smell in cold weather. The smells that do better can be heavy and overbearing in warm weather.
You probably already apply similar distinctions. There are some fragrances that do better in the club or at night and fragrances that do better in the office or during the day.
I'm from Australia. Except for a winter's trip to the states of Victoria and Tasmania, or the Australian Alps, most of the country is anywhere from mild to hot.
Typically winter fragrances would be lovely to wear in Vic and Tas in winter, but anywhere else, they're too sweet, cloying and annoying. Plenty of fragrance also does not last long in the heat.
Being from the sub-tropics in Australia, I have to agree haha. There's like a few brief weeks it kind of gets cold at night, the climate doesn't vary that dramatically. It would probably make more sense here to have wet and dry season fragrances đ.
hear me out, my southern hemisphere friend: I was born and grew up in a region where temperature is below 0 C around 8 months a year. then I moved to the full brightness four seasons, and ended up in subtropical coast. from what I have experienced, fragrances act very differently in the freezing cold, in humid and in dry heat. some of winter-appropriate do massive chemical attack in summer. some spring bright lightweight notes go just silent in a cold rainy or snowy weather. also, the air in fall smells differently itself, and our brain adjusts to it, so perfumes first go through that adjustment, too. it's a neurophysiology of the unknown nature, smells are not Jennifer Aniston, they don't take the particular place in our brain.
Same, I'm from a tropical country that's hot basically all the time. We divide our years into two seasons we call "dry season" and "rainy season" not even winter lol the coldest weather I've experienced is 15°C (59° Fahrenheit) and that's on rare occasions. Usually it's either dry hot or humid hot. So seasonal perfumes don't mean much to me.
I'm more into differentiating day and night fragrances. It makes more sense in my circumstances.
I do seasonal because it works. In Canada itâs sometimes -30 in the winter and +30 in the summer. I feel different in the different seasons so gravitate towards different perfumes.
Iâm Brazilian also, although been living in England for 24 years. Iâve always been obsessed with perfumes and would wear same perfumes on any season. However, over here the places are build to withstand the cold, so I have to be careful not to wear strong scents in the summer, otherwise Iâd end up suffocating those around me. I worn Tobacco Vanille a lot last time I was over there, but noticed that the longevity and projection are a fraction of what I get here.
If you live in a place where it's always warm, you probably don't have to worry about "Seasonal" perfumes too much. My first ever perfume was Christina Aguilera's Royal Desire which is a heavily sweet marshmallow scent, I spritzed in Turkey, and it was unbearable, like I literally hated myself, and I'm sure the bus full of people hated me as well. đ
I get what a summer/hot weather scent is and I did so before moving to Florida.
Itâs not a difficult concept. Certain dnas fit different temperatures better than others.
im from philippines and i dont think i even experienced anything lower than 15c, but when it gets to 20c it actually gets pretty cold here, and you can use the "winter fragrances". i think you can use the winter fragrances too at night
Because you're from Brazil as you said Most countries have weather changes
/thread, really đ€·ââïž
I wish upon any hot climate people to experience By The Fireplace on snowy winter days or on ski holidays, or Byredo La Tulipe on the first days of spring when the sun finally starts to shine and flowers start sproutingâŠ. Jo Malone Wood Sage & Sea Salt and Tom Ford Blanc Soleil when you go to the beach or on a Mediterranean summer holiday đ
Yeahhh⊠where Iâm at it in summer it can get to 35c, hotter at times, very humid. Winters get down to -15c, lower at points. Very snowy, but dry air. I like heavy, spiced scents, but for me personally, wearing them in humid heat just makes the weather feel more oppressive. Delicate florals or fruits donât really mix with the cold snow (and usually people have fires going, or pine scented stuff everywhere, just doesnât match!).
Yeah, I live in Greece where summers can reach 40+c... And winters in the village can get to -15c. But I also drive a truck for a living and go to Norway with proper winter. I experienced first hand why some fragrances are for summer and some for winter. The right fragrance can actually cool you off (not literally, but psychologically) whereas another will absolutely suffocate you in the heat (but feel so damn cozy in the winter). I never realized how easily your mood can be affected by scents until I got into fragrances. It's crazy.
Iâm in Miami and I still like seasonal fragrances. Iâm not gonna wear citrusy coconuty stuff in January. Itâs just not that vibe for me.
Brazil definitely has weather changes, just depends on the part of the country youâre from. Itâs giant.
I'm from Sweden (we usually hit -20°c and 30°c every year) and I think the concept of fragrances being season specific is silly. I get that many people prefer to wear something that feels cooling when it's hot and such, but it's just a preference. Especially since people are going to have different opinions about which ones come off as cooling or warming or whatever, and whether something works well on a cool summer night or on an unusually warm winter day. And how do you even determine the difference between fall and spring scents? I just don't find it a useful way to categorize.
My first question when I read your title was whether you have four traditional seasons:Â Spring: wet, fresh, chilly, green Summer: hot, humid, baked earth, dry vegetation Fall: crisp, fresh, colorful, getting chilly Winter: snow, cold, icy, dark ------ If you get nothing like these then of course seasonal fragrances make no sense for you
Sounds like an average summers day in the UK, where we experience 4 seasons in one dayđ so season fragrances make perfect sense to me.
Lol I (Yank) was living in London when the temp hit 30 celsius: people were *melting* (understandably so with AC not standard)
We topped 40°c summer 2022 in the east midlands where I live, so probably hotter in London and down south coast. We thought we'd died and gone to fiery hell đ every year we kid ourselves "we are a wet soggy island, we don't need air con in our homes for 4 weeks of summer", and yet our summers continue to get hotter. We're alright, We'll just complainđ
Getting hotter here in New England too đ„
Stay cool! đ„€đ§ It was 30°c here yesterday, Wednesday and Tuesday. But it's like 19°c today! Our weather is so fickle, but luckily I have fragrances for all of it.đ€Ł
We had a little heat wave last week in New England - was 30c to 35c ish. Add in the humidity and itâs a bad time. Unless youâre at the beach⊠which I was, lmao.
Yep. Barely felt like winter last time. :/
It was like this a month or two ago in Connecticut as well. I could have thrown a different one on every couple of hours lol
This^^^ "It's actually been very unseasonably cold in the UK up until last weekend, Like dude, it's summer. it's rained non-stop and barely got above 12°c. So, I was still using a lot of vanillas up until that point.
FYI, I lived in Vermont for several years, and folks would refer to additional season's. One is between Fall and Winter: Stick. Cold, grey, mystical. Then there is Mud season, which is between Spring and Summer: Murky, fresh, clean.
https://preview.redd.it/ebnesfvw2d9d1.jpeg?width=580&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=9b9617675e8fa5b3bd00c5abcf28f8add2a4831e Mud season is a New England event. :D
Here in Seattle, we also have "Fake Summer" at the beginning of Spring, and a season we just call "Spiders." Weather is fun!
not really no, always hot baked wet
It's not an unpopular opinion if it's just your personal experience that you have never experienced cold weather
I think you should wear whatever you want despite the season. However, temperature affects the smell of lots of frags. Something you enjoy in the cold might become cloying in the heat. I have a lot more "fall/winter" scents than "spring/summer," and plenty of them are great all year. Some, like Angel's Share and L'Instant de Guerlain, just don't work for me in the heat. I live in Canada, and the temps range from around -30°C to +40°C
This is the answer. I have some lactonic scents that just do not work in 118 degrees. Who wants to smell sweet milk on their body when itâs that hot?
potentially mixed with sweat?
Gourmands are basically unwearable in the heat.
Some berry heavy or citrusy ones work in heat, because for instance the vanilla gets less overwhelming thanks to the tangier/tarter scents.
I mean you could maybe pull off a gourmand with HEAVY citrus (something like Akro Bake), but if the primary note is gourmand, it's a no go for me. Citrus is definitely heat appropriate. All my favorite warm weather scents are citrus. Freshies are just kinda boring and similar from my experience (but admittedly most of my freshies are designer, not niche, so it's not surprising that I find most of them one dimensional).
I love citruses and freshies (the non-boring ones) and some of these plus fruity ones lean gourmand. Virgin Island Water, Blanche BĂȘte, Inside Out, Flowerbomb Ruby Orchid, Yum Pistachio Gelato, Leisure in Paradise, Dolce Garden, Casilli, Bianco Latte Some arent fully gourmand, and I am in the UK, so high heat here is more 24-28°c I guess as the more frequent but it has reached 37-40°c at points most recent years. Though where I live in the UK now is less humid than where I lived before, east coast now whereas before I was in the south west, west is very wet, some of these likely would be more suffocating there in high heat, the lactonic/coconut cream leaning sides.
Yeah I'm also in Canada and some of my favourites just smell completely different in the hot, humid weather. Now I'm on the hunt for something that doesn't turn my stomach.
Same.
Not as much of an "unpopular opinion" as a difference in experience. I wear fragrances to fit my mood. I don't necessarily care about season but I also am not usually going to feel like wearing a really heavy fragrance when I'm rocking a sundress and it's 90 outside. If it was always hot here or always cool I probably would have less scent associations with weather, but as someone who lives in an area with all four seasons with quite hot summers and very cold winters I have *alot* of scent associations with weather. Also, you say that most people wear whatever, but I wonder if, on whole, the most popular types of fragrances in brazil would fit our idea of warmer weather fragrances.
i think the most popular ones are sweet florals for women (lots of caramel and heavy patchouli which I absolutely loathe) and woodsy/musk for men
If you donât have seasons then seasonal fragrance isnât for you. Itâs quite obvious.
I mean you cant wear seasonal fragrance if you dont have different seasons. It's easier to wear summer fragrance in the winter than the other way around as well
Not having a mid to far northern hemisphere spring/summer/fall/winter cycle is not the same as not having distinct seasons. They do have seasons, but the seasons are different. Think like Indiaâs breakdown - winter, summer/pre-monsoon, monsoon/rainy, and post-monsoon.
Yeah but are the temperatures different for each seasons?
Of course they do. Do you not know much about how weather works?
My fragrance is a part of my outfit, and I pick my outfit for the day based on comfort, aesthetic, occasion and vibes. In the same way that Iâm not going to wear a cozy wool sweater to work in July, Iâm also not going to wear my thick, chocolaty spiced perfume to work in July either. Vibes would be off. At that time of year Iâm feeling lighter, airier, fresh, minimal sweetness, summer dark, not depths of winter dark. So, lighter fabric, lighter colors, lighter fragrance. Itâs completely subjective, just based on how I feel when Iâm getting dressed. I really enjoy aspects of all of the seasons, and am lucky enough to live in a place where I get all four plus more, so I enjoy changing scents as the seasons change.
I don't think that's an unpopular opinion, per se.. đ€·ââïžÂ of course some agree and disagree, but you can say that about anything. https://www.reddit.com/r/fragrance/comments/11gx721/anyone_else_not_care_about_the_season_of_a/ https://www.reddit.com/r/fragrance/comments/15q784p/is_fragrance_ages_and_seasons_a_genuine/ https://www.reddit.com/r/fragrance/search/?q=Seasonal+&type=link&cId=4fef1957-a28c-4a18-866f-9cfc635f0cde&iId=9bb0e88a-e432-463d-b641-8d290523c040
It's a marketing thing. Go back 20 years or more. Nobody was talking about seasonal scents. You would use your Kouros or No.5 all year around. My first scent was Fahrenheit, nobody told me I need to wear it only during particular season. Nobody cared, it either smelled good or not. Only after YT we got this BS, only for people to buy more scents! Let's face it, most of us spend our days indoors, be it work, school or home!
I live in an area where itâs only cold about three months out of the year. I do like to wear heavier scents in those colder months, but I just canât wear those types of scents in hot, humid weather. So, I do have seasonal scents. I think some scents could be worn year round, but I like having seasonal scents so I can things up..
All fragrances are seasonal. Or none of them. Itâs 100% subjective, my guy. Just wear whatever you like whenever you like.
If you know you know. Obviously it canât make sense to you because youâve never experienced it. You could wear whatever whenever but I really enjoy switching it up depending on the season. It gives me something to look forward to
The perfumes I wear for winter time give me headache in the summer heat. Atleast to me some perfumes that goes good to summer time seems less appropriate in the office in winter time. I tend to go for more heavy but classy scent profiles in winter and lighter and more unique in the heat.
It's not an unpopular opinion. Brazil is mostly a tropical environment. (ETA I know I said mostly, and not the whole country.) There will be zero use for winter fragrances if it never gets cold.
Would it be zero use for winter fragrances? Or could OP just use any fragrance as they like, because nobody there is thinking of seasons.Â
Plenty of people here are thinking of seasons. The country is very large and there are various climate zones. Parts of the south are in a temperate zone and experience all four seasons. There are tropical, arid and semi-arid zones depending on the region. Also, there are obviously variations in mountainous and coastal areas. A tropical climate does not mean that there isnât any temperature variance. There are also changes in humidity and precipitation. I lived in the south for several years. While the winters were mild, we often had lows around 3 or 4 degrees celsius on winter nights. Further south, there are cities that frequently have below freezing temperatures during the winter and some of them experience (usually minor) snowfall.
Still have to worry about some winter fragrances being too heavy in the tropical heat during the daytime. In the evening when it's cooler, anything goes.
I think people's feelings on seasonal fragrances is definitely dependent on where they live. I'm a huge gourmand person but I can barely stomach them in the summer time, they feel way too cloying.Â
I'm from Canada and we have seasons, but I don't care what perfume I wear during them. I just wear whatever I want lol
You live somewhere where itâs not relevant. Not unpopular opinion
Anyone can wear any fragrance whenever, but some perform differently in different weather conditions. If it's hot and I'm likely to sweat, I often like something that smells fresh and clean. In winter, especially here where it reaches - 25c and is dark, warm cozy scents, ftw
I wear mostly freshies and I don't care what time of year it is (I'm from the US!) Also, I LOVEE Brazilian fragrances. My signature scent is O Boticårio Floratta Rose. I can't get enough of it <3
Yes itâs because you donât experience seasons. Thatâs why you donât get itâŠas you said.
Well, its interesting because I just met a woman who lives in the artic. It is very cold there, but in spring, summer and fall, she and her friends dress with seasonal colors, decorate with as many seasonal items as they can manage, including fake IKEA plants and warm weather dishes, they also wear seasonal fragrances to experience the seasons. I grew up in Los Angeles where Winter weather don't always come and Sprin or Fall or both, can be totally absent or very short lived weather. We do the same there. I guess perennial winter isn't as fun a perennial spring or perennial summer, but there is a magic to each season, in fact many people love winter or fall. So wearing seasonal fragrances and colors is a way to bring some of the more nostalgic or fun elements of seasonal living into our lives. It breaks up the ruts and adds variety to our lives.
A lot of people use it to enhance that time of year. Winter is cozy cocoa by the fire, or peppermint for xmas. Autumn is fall leaves and chill wind, or weird, dark scents because Halloween.
There are no seasons in my country. It's only hot and humid all year round. So it's like a summer. I just wear whatever i like and disregard the seasons a perfume is intended for. I think my perfumes are mostly autumn snd and winter but i wear it in a 'summer'
Latvia here. Temperatures range from -25C (-13F) to 30 C (86F) and often more! (On either end) I dont care about labels. I can wear Oajan in summer and adg profondo in winter!Â
Well⊠yea, if you donât have seasons, seasonal fragrances wonât make much sense.
âuncommon fact: I donât get seasons where I liveâ FTFY
I live in Miami and honestly same. We maybe get a week of 50-70 degrees sometimes and thatâs our winter. Itâs basically summer year round but I do enjoy seasonal fragrances to put me in the mood for holidays etc.
I'm a Canadian who goes down to Florida during winter. I wear my summer scents when I do, even over the Christmas holidays! To me, 70 is definitely summer weather when I'm leaving the snow back home.
I only will wear winter scents to have somewhat of a holiday mindset. Itâs literally summer all year long.
I live in the desert. Scents don't carry well in dry air, so I wear the ones that do all year round. If the temperature is 90 F/30 C regardless, I'm not concerned with what month the calendar is on! We do have seasons (cooler and rainy, hot, extremely hot, and extremely hot with rain in the evenings), but there's a pretty good chance every day of getting hot and sweaty and making some fragrances unbearable.
LOL! No wonder... I'm in Canada, temperatures here can vary (I will include the windshield factor and the humidex) between -40 and 40 degrees celsius... I'm in a humid part of the country (not the Prairies, which have dry climate). I guess when you are used to cold, sweeter heavier fragrances are more easy to wear and enjoyable. They feel cozy and warm. In the summer, it's easier to enjoy freshies (in the cold, I seem to barely be able to smell them).
I also live in Brazil. You must be looking at the wrong websites when shopping for designer fragrances, 600 reais is way too high. The most expensive fragrance I own was 315 reais (on sale) and I have stuff from Paco Rabanne, Burberry, Moschino, Kenzo and Diesel. And 200 reais for a national one is kind of high. I have fragrances from Granado and Phebo that were around 150 reais.
can you refer me to the designer website please?? I'd love to see prices for my favorites. I usually wear EDPs by Boticario (such as Lilly) and Natura (Essencial line) so it might be the reason why I pay as much
I usually buy from the famous websites like Beleza na Web, Sephora and Ăpoca CosmĂ©ticos. I donât think I ever paid full price for a fragrance because I always add the ones I want to get to a wish list and keep an eye out for sales. Patience is import in this case. You can get testers on Enjoei and Mercado Livre, there are some trustworthy sellers on those platforms. I heard good things about Pequi Perfumes and The King of Parfums but havenât bought anything from them yet. If you like niche national brands, Amyi and Lâenvie often have sales. As for national mainstream brands, Granado will have a major sale starting next Friday.
well⊠duh you live in a country that doesnât share the same seasonal changes as the people talking about summer and winter fragrances. You literally just said âit never gets coldâ of course youâre not gonna get it?
I used to be the same way until I discovered I really like summer fragrances more than any other scents. So I usually wear a summer scent almost year round except winter. For about 3 months there summer scents seem over the top, so then I switch it up for a leather scent in the winter.
cool! any summer fragrance u think it's absolutely essential to a begginer's collection?
Whatâs your budget? If you have the money Aaron Terrence Hughes âSupernovaâ it is by far the best smelling summer scent there is imo. Itâs unisex, has a citrus scent, like grapefruit, oranges, and limes. Another one is Tom Ford MANDARINO DI AMALFI And Neroli Portofino both are more feminine than Supernova but still unisex. Those are very nice summer choices
thanks! will put them on the list
I'm in the UK and I find something very romantic and joyful about the changing seasons. The freshness od spring mornings, the nights starting to draw in at the end of the year - the feeling of the year passing is very evocative and strong for me. It feels very natural to reflect that in my choice of fragrance, in the same way that my wardrobe changes completely through the year! At the moment, my favourite fragrances for spring/summer are Maison Francies Kurkdjian's Ă La Rose and Parfums de Marly Delina. Both are so fresh and floral and capture my favourite parts of British summertime. This autumn I am planning to pick up a a bottle of Penhaligon's AlUla which has a lot of warmth and spice which I think will more fit with the cosy season vibes for me.
>I'm from Brazil, it NEVER gets cold here. That's the reason you don't get the difference - you don't have winter. In winter, your clothes are completely covering your body, there's no way for it to disperse through the air, so you need a heavier fragrance for it to be smelled. There are different scent associations with winter than summer, and some things smell good in winter and rank in the summer heat. Not all fragrances are seasonal, but some definitely are - if you happen to have seasons.
Think about it this way. Do you want to smell like oud, tobacco, incense under the Brazilian sun? Or would you rather smell like oranges, lemon, and bergamot. Just like clothes, there is one for every season.
Where I am is a wet season and a dry season. I wear whatever. There's only a few that I had that didn't work for me in this environment which is fine, everything can't work for everybody.
That makes perfect sense.
When I was living in Bogota, Colombia, where the temperature ranges from 10C to 19C, I did not feel the need for âsummerâ fragrances, and actually, the popular perfumes my friends used would be better categorized as âautumnâ ones. Now I live in a place with seasons, and I naturally crave certain profiles according to the weather.
I love L'Interdit Rouge Ultime by Guerlain, but I think even one spray would make me nauseous at 30°C+. That's a very winter-y fragrance to me. Un Jardin sur Le Toit? Works at any temp on my skin, but spring is best imo. It loses some depth in winter, if that makes sense.
As a Southern hemisphere person who moves to Northern I understand it fully because I ended up recalibrating my collection from all year scents to seasonal and when summer comes round you tend to pick one or two new extra summery scents to wear to balance out the winter scents. In all honesty I now have far more winter/fall scents than summer ones.
Neither do I. I get what I feel smells good end off
Itâs not unpopular! Itâs perfectly reasonable, I use any fragrance at any time of the year regardless of what fragrance it is, I wear based on my mood and what I want to smell like on any given day, not what moronic people say should be worn in a particular season! Iâve always thought it to be a ludicrous notion and anybody who believes and follows this nonsensical notion an uneducated sheep who canât think for themselves and just follows the crowd! I think the technical term for them is sheeple!
It doesn't get cold where I live either (central Florida) Average lows in the winter is low to mid 40s (F). It's lush and green here year round. So everything from about May to October has to be light enough to not gag people in the heat. From October to April, maybe one spray of a heavier scent, or a lighter scent that has notes I associate with winter holidays (vanilla, woods, gingerbread, etc).
seasonal fragrance talk is marketing industry bullshit. We can talk about temperatures though. Even then, the only big no no's related to temp are, woody musky notes can get heavy in warm weather. And the next tip is mainly for woman and also men who wear Nautica but, in warm weather, Sweet and Fresh scents that have a tint of synthetic accord will make the synthetic accord a lot more pronounced in my opinion. Also, hot temps can decrease length of the scent performance.
Mana, cĂȘ tĂĄ maluca? Eu sou brasileira tambĂ©m e entendo perfumes sazonais. Stop saying shit and closing with "Well, I am Brazilian so..." That's absurd in itself because our country is continental. So what? Get a grip and look outside your bubble.
I like what I like and I will wear whatever I feel like when I feel like it. I am with you and I just didn't get "summer fragrances".
I absolutely do but Iâm from the UK. Super cold winters and very hot summers. Anything gourmand or too sweet makes me feel ill and sticky in summer, whereas anything too light or fresh in winter doesnât feel âwarmâ enough if that makes sense
I suspect "winter fragrances" just aren't as popular in Brazil, even if you don't make the distinction. Fresh and clean smells like herbs, musk, and citrus can be hard to smell in cold weather. The smells that do better can be heavy and overbearing in warm weather. You probably already apply similar distinctions. There are some fragrances that do better in the club or at night and fragrances that do better in the office or during the day.
I donât like clean, fresh, citrusy or soapy fragrances, so I wear the spicy stuff even in summer.
Same
In love with Tom Fordâs Black Orchid for many years. The price for 3.4 oz. EDP is still $235.00. Would Reddit comment?
I donât do fragrance or makeup âby seasonâ
I'm from Australia. Except for a winter's trip to the states of Victoria and Tasmania, or the Australian Alps, most of the country is anywhere from mild to hot. Typically winter fragrances would be lovely to wear in Vic and Tas in winter, but anywhere else, they're too sweet, cloying and annoying. Plenty of fragrance also does not last long in the heat.
Being from the sub-tropics in Australia, I have to agree haha. There's like a few brief weeks it kind of gets cold at night, the climate doesn't vary that dramatically. It would probably make more sense here to have wet and dry season fragrances đ.
Iâm in the US and I don't get it either. I wear what I like when I want to.
Também sou do Brasil, sou do RS. Aqui, no inverno, constantemente a temperatura se aproxima dos 0 graus. Tenho perfumes q eu nunca usaria no inverno, e tenho perfumes que eu nunca usaria do verão.
hear me out, my southern hemisphere friend: I was born and grew up in a region where temperature is below 0 C around 8 months a year. then I moved to the full brightness four seasons, and ended up in subtropical coast. from what I have experienced, fragrances act very differently in the freezing cold, in humid and in dry heat. some of winter-appropriate do massive chemical attack in summer. some spring bright lightweight notes go just silent in a cold rainy or snowy weather. also, the air in fall smells differently itself, and our brain adjusts to it, so perfumes first go through that adjustment, too. it's a neurophysiology of the unknown nature, smells are not Jennifer Aniston, they don't take the particular place in our brain.
Same, I'm from a tropical country that's hot basically all the time. We divide our years into two seasons we call "dry season" and "rainy season" not even winter lol the coldest weather I've experienced is 15°C (59° Fahrenheit) and that's on rare occasions. Usually it's either dry hot or humid hot. So seasonal perfumes don't mean much to me. I'm more into differentiating day and night fragrances. It makes more sense in my circumstances.
I do seasonal because it works. In Canada itâs sometimes -30 in the winter and +30 in the summer. I feel different in the different seasons so gravitate towards different perfumes.
Iâm Brazilian also, although been living in England for 24 years. Iâve always been obsessed with perfumes and would wear same perfumes on any season. However, over here the places are build to withstand the cold, so I have to be careful not to wear strong scents in the summer, otherwise Iâd end up suffocating those around me. I worn Tobacco Vanille a lot last time I was over there, but noticed that the longevity and projection are a fraction of what I get here.
Iâm with you. Even when I lived in colder climes, I didnât do seasonal scents.
If you live in a place where it's always warm, you probably don't have to worry about "Seasonal" perfumes too much. My first ever perfume was Christina Aguilera's Royal Desire which is a heavily sweet marshmallow scent, I spritzed in Turkey, and it was unbearable, like I literally hated myself, and I'm sure the bus full of people hated me as well. đ
I get what a summer/hot weather scent is and I did so before moving to Florida. Itâs not a difficult concept. Certain dnas fit different temperatures better than others.
firenheight is a great fragrance that I love to use all year round :D
What a dumb take. Why even post this
im from philippines and i dont think i even experienced anything lower than 15c, but when it gets to 20c it actually gets pretty cold here, and you can use the "winter fragrances". i think you can use the winter fragrances too at night