10 Best Winter Perfumes 2023 + Part 1 Resin Weather Giveaway

December 8, 2022December 9, 2022

10 Best Winter Perfumes 2023 @redolesssence

The weather is getting colder, so it’s time to change up your fragrance game. We recommend perfumes that are deeper, resinous, spicy and smoky with incense during the winter and in an EDP or Parfum concentration, since skin is often drier this time of the year. Days are short and nights are long, so it’s the perfect season to cozy up with a wonderfully warming fragrance. Here are the first five fragrant favorites in ÇaFleureBon’s 10 Best Winter Perfumes 2023, co-curated by Michelyn Camen, Editor-in-Chief and Video Content Creator Steven Gavrielatos.

Neela Vermeire Creations Trayee (Bertrand Duchaufour) 2011: Neela Vermeire Creations is an independent brand headed by the visionary Creative Director Neela Vermeire, who grew up in India. Trayee, whose Sanskrit name refers to the first three Vedas (the oldest, most sacred books of India), is one of the most multifaceted fragrances I own, and is a CaFleureBon Modern Masterpiece (as editor Ermano Picco once wrote, “It is the Shalimar of Sandalwood“). Perfumer Bertrand Duchaufour uses a high percentage of natural ingredients: cardamom, clove, elemi and ginger that float in a spicy cloud. Creamy jasmine blossoms dipped in golden amber swirl around Laotian oud. At once complex, contemplative and comforting I have loved Trayee since 2011, and it was makes our 10 Best Winter Perfumes 2023, twelve years after its debut-Michelyn Camen, Editor-in-Chief

Carner Barcelona Megalium Rodrigo Flores-Roux (2018): Steven compared Carner Barcelona Megalium to Neela Vermeire Trayee, but it is very different to my nose and performs very differently on my skin; cinnamon (Cassia) not incense is the star. Interestingly, it is based on an actual perfume named Megalium (or Megaleion in Greek) which was already a classic scent in 420 B.C. Rodrigo Flores Roux has created a blend of spices, resins, fruit and flowers, rich and resinous, that does indeed smell ancient, as if it was created thousands of years ago.-Michelyn Camen, Editor-in-Chief

Tom Ford Private Label Vert d’Encens is a festive expression of pine resin and incense. Olivier Gillotin is the perfumer, and he has cleverly blended pine with fir balsam to create a rich verdant accord. Incense and woody notes ground the fragrance, and the richness of the pine immediately puts us in the mindset of winter!-Steven Gavrielatos, Video Editor

MATIERE PREMIERE Encens Suave (Aurélien Guichard) 2019: Each fragrance in MATIERE PREMIERE’S collection highlights an exceptional natural ingredient, interpreted by Master Perfumer Aurelien Guichard, the nose and founder of the brand. With Encens Suave it is Resin Incense from Somalia and it was Aurelien’s goal to create a “black incense, addictive and carnal.” For me, this is one of the most fascinating twists on incense perfumes I have smelled in some time, as it seamlessly blends an ingredient used in fragrance for millennia with vanilla, benzoin and the very specific aroma of dark roasted Arabica coffee beans. The kick of coffee with the lactonic creaminess of vanilla will instantly transport you to Cafe de la Mairie, a small café across the street from the grand St. Sulpiece Church, one of the majestic churches of Paris-Michelyn Camen, Editor- in-Chief

Intito Parfums Prive Paragon (2022): If you live in a more temperate climate or want a fragrance that transitions from fall into winter, we highly recommend the spicy, woody, resinous and slightly smoky Paragon. It is one of our personal favorites from the brand and is new this year. A stellar plum accord wraps around a whisper of incense and is a beautiful counterpoint to the contemplative effect of palo santo.-Michelyn Camen, Editor and Chief

All of Steven’s and Michelyn’s 10 Best Winter Perfumes 2023 Part I have exceptional longevity and sillage.

Disclosure: Fragrances from our personal collection or given for review at other times; opinions our own

USA, EU and UK ONLY: From the very giving heart of Neela Vermeire there is a 60 ml bottle of Neela Vermeire Creations Trayee

USA, EU ONLY: Mille Mercis to MATEIRE PREMIERE for 50 ml of Encens Suave

USA & Canada ONLY: Fine Fragrances Distribution, the distributor of Initio Parfums is generously offering a 90 ml bottle of Initio Parfums Paragon for one registered reader

Thanks to each of the above THREE BRANDS (Carner Barcelona and Tom Ford are not part of this giveaway), we have a reader’s choice for one of the10 Best Winter Perfumes 2023 Part 1 for a registered CaFleureBon reader and Redolessence subscriber. To be eligible, YOU MUST REGISTER and leave a comment on this site with your choice (name as many as you qualify for) should you win, what you thought of BOTH Michelyn’s and Steven’s reviews and where you live. Draw closes 12/13/2022but will be announce within 2 weeks after.

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