“I see perfume as an extension of my wardrobe,” says Victoria Beckham, whose assortment this fall goes past deconstructed trench coats and plush turtlenecks to incorporate three debut scents. “You’re tapping into all of the senses when scent turns into an element. It’s the way you gown your self.” There’s advantage to having a signature fragrance—an aide-mémoire that lingers in your absence—however a cache of design-minded fragrances makes the case for a sartorial array. Right here, six tastemakers riff on their creations, imagining which clothes merchandise finest displays what’s worn on the wrist.
Gabriela Hearst | Paysandú
The Uruguay-born designer expands her model this fall with two fragrances, created with Fueguia 1833. “Each scents, Paysandú and New York, are items of my childhood, my reminiscences, and my soul, in a manner,” she says. A nod to her motherland, Paysandú is a resinous mix layered with jazmín del país and the medicinal herb carqueja. She sees it with a knit wrap from her line, made by artisans from the nonprofit Manos del Uruguay.
Frédéric Malle | Heaven Can Wait
To Malle, Heaven Can Wait reads like “second pores and skin—it’s a temper slightly than a second,” he says of the newest by perfumer Jean-Claude Ellena. Evoking “intimacy and heat,” with notes of clove, carrot seed, and iris, the perfume appears to seek out its textile equal in mattress linens and little else. Malle as a substitute suggests a worn-out sweatshirt, unfussy in its deep consolation, to accompany this “very tender but textured fragrance.”
Tory Burch | Essence of Rose
“I design fragrances the identical manner I design my collections: They’re instruments for self-expression,” says Burch. Her new scented oils—odes to rose, sandalwood, and vetiver, very best for layering— stoke that artistic impulse. Her favourite is a calibrated mixture of Bulgarian rose and bergamot, akin to nailing the “very best stability of silhouette, material, and slot in a jacket.” Fall’s two-piece ivory look with uncovered boning strikes the identical tone: “romantic and sensual.”
Victoria Beckham | Portofino ’97
“Perfume for me is emotional and subjective,” says Beckham, who calls her trio of perfumes “extraordinarily private.” Suite 302 (tobacco, black cherry) conjures an evening in Paris; San Ysidro Drive (saffron, incense) captures a stretch of LA life. This citrusy postcard from the Italian Riviera recollects her first journey with David Beckham—younger lovers escaping the limelight. An aquamarine gown for fall, adorned with a plume, matches the event.
Armando Cabral | Mahogany Kora
The designer and mannequin collaborated with fragrance studio D.S. & Durga for this restricted version, that includes notes like papyrus, atlas cedar, and calabash nutmeg. “It takes me again to the ’60s in Mali, a time well-documented by the nice Malian portraitist Seydou Keïta,” says Cabral. For him, a soft-texture white swimsuit tasks a “sense of class and depth, echoing the perfume’s subtle nature.”
Loveshackfancy | Eternally in Love
As soon as the sort to faithfully put on a signature fragrance, founder Rebecca Hessel Cohen got here to understand the concept of an olfactive wardrobe. “It’s similar to your precise closet in perfume kind—totally different scents for various seasons, moods, occasions of day,” she says. Of the three new scents, Eternally in Love is her morning decide. “It’s gardenia and inexperienced pear—so open and optimistic.” The model’s Ruffle miniskirt mirrors its flirtatious persona.
