Summer is about versatility, so I’m always ready to shift gears and spray on something new as the weather shifts our needs, and we move from office to beachside. It’s a season where we attach ourselves closely with nature and perfume's beginnings. So my advice? Carry an airy, celebratory favorite with you (for me this year it’s been L’Aromatica’s Kulfi - a cardamom-infused coconut treasure,) and be one with the sun. 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. Hermes Eau Des Merveilles: I don't even need to say more. Coast of Colombo, strong winds and bright sunshine. Citrus and amber and ambergris on your skin and clothes.. MAGIC!

Davidoff Cool Water: Your inexpensive replacement to Creed Green Irish Tweed and this just works crazy good in the heat! Chanel Chance Eau Vive: This works beautifully in our climate irrespective of whether its day or night. However, I wouldn't wear it on a rainy day because when it rains, IT POURS and it doesn't work in such crazy humidity.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.

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. 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 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. I also like wearing Carnal Flowe from Frederic Malle, the most beautiful tuberose on the market in my opinion which fits perfectly for summer or holidays, with its refined green and white flower breath that unveils all the facets of the tuberose.Burberry Weekend: Not just for men, it works for the ladies too! But that super sharp and green bite of ivy really smells gorgeous! 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. 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.