Search through past “Best of Winter” perfume posts and you’ll find lots of suggestions for perfume to wear when it’s cold out. Most of those suggestions assume you’re looking at the cold from inside your toasty living room. Or at least from the warmth of a thick coat and gloves. When my furnace broke down a few weeks ago I faced a different question about cold weather perfumes: what perfume is good not only when it’s cold out, but cold inside, too?
I came up with a strategy for perfume to wear when you’re cold:
Try amber and spice. Amber is warming, if a little sweet and sometimes cloying. I burned myself out on Lorenzo Villoresi Alamut during my furnace’s downtime and don’t think I’ll be able to wear it again…
