What Makes the Perfect Thanksgiving Perfume?

Thanksgiving is truly a sensory experience.

The food is, of course, the center of all this. You can smell the turkey, stuffing, gravy, sweet potatoes, cornbread, mashed potatoes, and cranberry sauce just thinking about it. Other than that, the earthy autumnal scents and the pumpkin spice come to mind.

The visual experience of this autumnal holiday does not disappoint, either. The earthy-toned environment, and the falling leaves in shades of purple, orange, red and yellow, is the signature of this season. People dress cozier, and the air is infiltrated with the smell of sweet spices in the pies. How do you pick a fall scent for this holiday that blends with all these smells, colours and general vibe? You don’t want to overpower the signature thanksgiving and fall scents but to blend in instead seamlessly.

What to Avoid

There are some things that you should avoid. Of course, no rule is strict and rigid, but these work well. You might want to avoid heavy floral scents. Floral scents aren’t fall scents but are more of a spring-time thing. They will clash with fall scents surrounding you, sweet spices like cardamom and nutmeg in thanksgiving food and the earthy scent in the fall air.

What Scents Work for Thanksgiving?

The goal here is to complement the fall scents naturally surrounding you. So definitely go for sweet, spicy fall perfumes with notes like cardamom and nutmeg. They’ll complement the pumpkin pies and the other sweet treats you’ll have going on. A subtle vanilla scent will also blend in beautifully with the earthy aromas and the baked goods at Thanksgiving dinner. Citrusy scents can also be fall scents!

Here are some fall perfumes that’ll work for thanksgiving and fall in general.

Starwalker by Montblanc

If you’re looking to show up to thanksgiving smelling like a hot pumpkin-spiced latte, look no further. Montblanc’s Starwalker has you covered. This fall perfume’s top notes are bamboo, bergamot and mandarin orange. Middle notes are sandalwood, white musk and cedar, and base notes are ginger, fir resin, nutmeg and amber.

Montblanc’s Starwalker will smell like spices throughout its transformation from top notes to base notes. First, it starts off woody and citrusy because of the mandarin orange and bamboo notes. Then this fall perfume morphs into a warm, woody scent because of the sandalwood, white musk and cedar. The base notes of Montblanc’s Starwalker are sweet and spicy, with ginger and nutmeg.

Montblanc’s Starwalker is both a day and nightwear perfume.

Mémoire d’une Odeur by Gucci

Mémoire d’une Odeur by Gucci is a unisex fall perfume released in 2019. The nose behind this perfume is the iconic Alberto Murillas. It is floral but subtly, so it won’t clash with the thanksgiving theme.

The top notes are chamomile and bitter almond; the middle notes are musk, Indian jasmine and jasmine. The base notes are sandalwood, cedar and vanilla.

The perfume starts off earthy and nutty thanks to the bitter almond and chamomile. These notes reflect the earthy scents of autumn perfectly. The scent morphs into a warm, musky, slightly floral scent because of the middle notes, and finally, the scent dries down as a woody, vanilla scent, which will be the predominant scent throughout the lifetime of the perfume. This could be a daytime or nighttime perfume.

Tom Ford Oud Wood

Formulated by Richard Herpin, Oud Wood is a fall perfume and was released in 2007. Oud Wood is one of the most iconic Tom Ford perfumes of all time, and is often described as an amber, woody perfume. It wouldn’t be an exaggeration to call Oud Wood fall in a bottle.

Oud Wood’s top notes are rosewood, cardamom and Chinese pepper. The middle notes are oud, sandalwood and vetiver, and the base notes of Oud Wood are tonka bean, vanilla and amber. Oud Wood starts with spice and woody. The rosewood makes the perfume woody initially, and the cardamom adds sweetness. The cardamom and the Chinese pepper add a spiciness to the start of the perfume. Finally, the smell morphs into a woody, vanilla and warm amber scent.

360° Black by Perry Ellis

Suppose you’re looking for a fall perfume that’s predominantly a sweet, spicy scent that’ll keep you smelling like a freshly baked pie, this one’s for you. The top notes of this perfume are cardamom, sambuca and ginger spice. The middle notes are nutmeg extract, tamarind vine and black basil and the base notes are tobacco leaf, suede accord and liquid amber.

This perfume starts smelling like sweet, spicy cardamom, ginger and sambuca in true thanksgiving fashion. These scents are complemented by the middle nutmeg, tamarind and black basil notes. These are also spicy notes, and they’re going to add to and blend seamlessly with the thanksgiving food aroma. The perfume finally becomes warmer and smokier because of the liquid amber, tobacco leaf and suede accord notes.

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