Bvlgari Mon Jasmine Noir L'eau Exquise: WONDERFUL!! Inoffesive at the workplace and still wonderful enough to charm your significant other. This option mixes the woody notes of barks, mosses and warm resins with the greener impression of aromatic spices, sweeping bypassers off their feet. When this particular product is first applied, bergamot, basil, lavender, rosemary and lemon come to the fore. Next middle notes of carnation, geranium, thyme, clary sage and pine move in. Finally the base of vetiver, tonka bean, moss, musk and cedar climbs to hone the olfactory experience. (Vetiver, sometimes called khus, is a grass similar to lemongrass and native to India.) Visconti di Modrone Colognes: Price UK Longevity from start to finish on my skin is about 4-5 hours, excellent for something that is an EDC. Sillage is light to moderate, so this fragrance is delightful and inoffensive to most people. You would have to douse yourself to overdo this one. A couple or three sprays in an office setting would give you a crisp, clean, and confident scent, that would last through most of the day.

Davidoff Cool Water: Your inexpensive replacement to Creed Green Irish Tweed and this just works crazy good in the heat! What I find safe as my go-to summer scent is Chance Eau Tendre hair mist. It has bright citrusy notes suitable for warmer days, and just enough floral notes blended in to make it more versatile just in case the temperature drops a few degrees. Hyacinth and iris brings up a green and waxy vibe, which always makes me feel composed and effortlessly chic. Why hair mist? Just because I get paranoid that perfume, sweat, sunscreen and sunlight just don’t mix well. Dior Sauvage: This doesn't just smell soapy and clean but it's stunning! The new very cool spray is even perfect for women! Acqua di Selva starts out a aromatic, herby mix. I get an initial blast of soft petitgrain, basil, and rosemary. I don't get much citruses. There's a slight clary ssge to this, with just a tinge of sweetness coming from the lavender. But the middle notes are, overall, similar to the rest of the fragrance itself: dry, herbaceous, slightly green. During the dry down I get some pine, vetiver and musk. But it's fairly light and mostly gone after a few hours.

Much like the Spanish Inquisition, as immortalised in the words of Monty Python, my weapons of choice are "fear and surprise, surprise and fear." They seem to work pretty well. In Portuguese heat, even a lover of heavy scents like me needs some refreshment. I am finding great comfort in SP Parfum's SP Parfums Sven Pritzkoleit Lemon Sorbet & Orange which is a surprising citrus fragrance. It focuses on citrus fruits with a lot of effects coming from synthetic molecules that give it the frozen element, and also calone, which I hate but is introduced in this formulation to great results. What I love the most is the icy effect it creates on my skin due to the strong presence of mint. I get that feeling of cooling, not in an olfactive way but in a clear tactile sensation. In the overall composition I love the oakmoss which gives it a chypre twist just like in vintage Eau de Courreges. Lemon Sorbet & Orange is my go to scent for this summer, but I am also wearing a lot of Calvin Klein Truth and thinking that this is a brand I have been exploring with great pleasure in different scents since I was 18.

Egyptian summer can be tragic for warm fragrances so I rely on my snuggly collection for fresh floral, soft green, cold musky, fluffy, flirty and fruity scents. Though I'm more of a winter lover I have to say catching fresh whiffs of sea breath tingling my tanned skin is a blessing. Currently I'm enjoying the taste of soft musk in Narciso Rodriguez Essence; immediately a cold wave of soft musk soothes my senses., I can feel the soapy rose accord dominating the entire development without being too floral allowing a beautiful musky theme to add purity of skin scent at the end. My go to fragrance this summer is Guerlain Aqua Allegoria Flora Rosa - it's "roses done right", delivering a true and balancing floral aroma dipped in sour tartness with a multifaceted accord of berries wheres you can feel a sweet and sour tinge at the end. For casual day use I'm a bit nostalgic wearing Lacoste Love of Pink and Versace Bright Crystal with the soft solar and powdery Fendi Fantasia Fendi yielding a clean and fresh aroma without feeling too generic. For a special summer evening I'm learning about Guerlain Eau de Shalimar, a sunnier version of the original Shalimar. The initial tart, sour start tends to be vintage-like while being condemned to act freshly enough for a warm evening; combining the sunny citrusy opening of lime with sour vanilla couldn't be better. Note: For a warmer tint I personally enjoy layering a few sprays of Lorenzo Villoresi Teint de Neige with Victoria`s Secret Heavenly Eau de Parfum (body mist).I love Acqua di Selva. It is now 64 years old, and does not smell dated to my nose. It opens with a tart lemon, fresh lavender, herbaceous pine. Smells clean and fresh in a non-laundry-musk or aquatic way. Summertime in Greece is becoming hotter and hotter it seems, though we're quite accustomed to endless summer days when something light and bracing is best appreciated if one doesn't want to overwhelm their entourage and casual bystanders.

This fragrance is a show with several acts. This distinguishes it wonderfully from many later products, where after 10 seconds you already know what the water will smell like 2 hours later (still). The head, heart and base each have their own program, and it is amazing how far apart they are - and yet how harmoniously they merge into one another. After the fragrance settles a bit, touches of carnation, geranium make themselves known along with a wonderful musky cedar base. A bit of smoky vetiver makes it even more attractive. The final stages are a warm and gentle musk and the cedar. It is just an incredibly well-done fragrance.Summertime can be a challenging season for many devoted perfume lovers. We all share a common interest in exploring complexity in a fragrance, appreciating its nuances and evaluating the long story that is narrated on the skin by a good scent. Yet when the temperatures change, so do our preferences for fragrance. This summer in Russia I am enjoying Christian Dior Sauvage Very Cool Spray - I use it every time when going to have a walk or before taking sunbaths near the sea: it refreshes perfectly and is very convenient to have in a travel bag (nothing will leak or break, if you know what I mean) or in the car; it became one of my favorites this warm summer when other body mists and colognes don't work. During my nights out I'm usually in the company of Eau Noire or modern Chamade - depending on the mood or occassion: their sillage makes others ask what perfume I am wearing, and makes me smile - but only me.

From one perfume lover to another, Fragrantica's international team of editors share their own personal choices as to what works for them in different longitudes & latitudes during the time of year we folks in the Northern Hemisphere enjoy as summer. We invite you to share your own personal choices in the comments section below.

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This year I started to rely on vetiver scents to bring me relief in the heat. I wear Sycomore by Chanel and Sel de Vetiver by The Different Company. Like Sophie, I love Carnal Flower in the summer. I also own the hair mist and it's wonderful too. Because I am a vanilla and oriental fan, I also enjoy wearing Eau Duelle by Diptyque in summer. A vanilla dressed up with spices, woods and powdery touch, Duelle's delicate and subtle sillage is perfect for summer. The thing that I really like about is the way the scent adjusts after you apply it. It really does change as it drys and settles. It becomes a very nice almost classic smelling woody scent. No Leather scent, no overpowering muskiness, no odd powdery smell just a multi level nice woodsy scent with hints of cedar, vetiver, sage, and Bergamont. The price of the scent is great value in my opinion. I enjoy mixing scents and am going to experiment with this one as well, but I will also wear this scent alone pretty regularly. Actually here is winter this time of year - although the "winter" in Brazil can be compared to the fall of the rest of the world! In any case in the summer I use: