All four seasons of the calendar year (spring, summer, autumn, and winter) offer unique opportunities to celebrate certain emotions, traditions, and of course, sensory experiences. The way we dress–––and often our beverage choice-–changes with each season. So, why would we not change the fragrances we wear too? Certain fragrances just make sense to wear during particular times of the year. Warm, cozy, and earthy fragrances comfort us in the colder months. By contrast, fresh, fruity, and lively florals offer a much-needed refresh as the weather warms up. To capture the essence of the four fragrance seasons, we created Dossier Originals: The Seasons Collection. Our expert perfumers in France crafted four unisex fragrances via our Creative Lab to represent the distinctive sights, tastes, and emotions you associate with that specific time of the year. Each of the Dossier Originals: The Seasons Collection fragrances lets you spritz the notes associated with winter, spring, summer, and (stay tuned for) autumn––with a French-inspired twist. Read on if you’re curious about how fragrances––their notes, scent families, and which over scent-sations–– fit into the four seasons. Plus, get exclusive tips on how to emulate each season via scent layering, featuring our exclusive Seasons Collection scents.
Nature awakens during this season. Consider the scent-sations you associate with spring: the first wave of warm sunshine, blooming florals, lush greenery, and ripe fruits. So, unsurprisingly, many fragrances from our flowery scent family capture the essence of spring. Our nose shares that fresh, floral, green, fruity, and aromatic notes best encapsulate spring. Yet, we knew it was possible to bottle up the season via a Dossier Originals fragrance.
To celebrate the season of optimism and new beginnings, the Dossier Creative Lab blended your NEW Spring Fling.
SPRING FLING
Dossier Originals: The Seasons Collection
Main notes: Lily of the Valley, Green Leaves, Transparent White Flowers
Smell like: Bright and transparent white flowers at first bloom.
Why Spring Fling is the spring fragrance season, bottled:
Spring Fling captures the essence of the floral freshness and blooming new beginning of the season with renewing floral and revitalizing green notes. The fragrance opens with a flourishing burst of fresh, floral, and crisp notes of lily of the valley, green leaves with sweet notes of hyacinth flowers, and a sunny touch of vegan honey. It unfolds into a heart that crafts a lush bouquet of transparent white flowers, magnolia, and sweet pea. As it settles on the skin, Spring Fling dries down with a smooth base of narcissus, heliotrope flowers, and musk—the pure joy of spring floral freshness, now in an airy spritz.
Spring Fling x Fruity Peony
This blend offers a dewy sense of rebirth. Embrace lush green notes of Spring Fling interlaced with the juicy, sparkling hint of raspberry from Fruity Peony. The shared heart of delicate peony and freshly blossomed flowers ground your senses with a soft, graceful floralcy. In essence, it’s undeniable elegance at its finest.
Basking in the sun, sandy beaches, and tropical drinks, anyone? These scent-sations smell like the freedom we crave in the summer. It’s the hottest season of the year, so it’s only natural that summer fragrances are usually choked full of crisp, light, and refreshing notes. Think: Aquatic notes, coconut, solar scents, and warm notes like sensual florals, musks, and sandalwood. We created Summer Crush, the debut fragrance for Dossier Originals: The Seasons Collection, to bottle up the scent-sations of spending the summer on the French Riviera.
SUMMER CRUSH
Dossier Originals: The Seasons Collection
Main notes: Beach Breeze Accord, Ylang Ylang, Coconut, Tiare Flower
Smell like: A fancy sunscreen from the South of France.
Why Summer Crush is the summer fragrance season, bottled:
Summer Crush transports you to a relaxing, hot day on the beach with refreshing fruity notes of watermelon & lemon with a beach breeze accord. The scent unfolds into a romantic tropical delight with a Ylang Ylang, coconut, and orange blossom heart. For the base, notes of creamy musks, sensual vanilla, and buttery sandalwood settle on your skin like the most luscious sun tan lotion ––all you’re missing is une paire de lunettes de soleil.
Summer Crush x Aquatic Vanilla
These two fragrances, which expressively evoke a summer’s day on the beach, combine perfectly and harmoniously. Close your eyes, you’re there!
It’s called hibernation and the festive season for a reason. Everything about winter gives off a cozy vibe: It’s characterized by freezing temperatures, snow, thick sweaters, warm beverages, and indulgent treats. Accordingly, winter fragrance notes include everything warm, gourmand, spicy, and rich. For our winter fragrance, the Creative Lab crafted the most decadent Winter Kiss––a spiced hot chocolate scent. Of course, we dreamed up this edition of Dossier Originals: The Seasons Collection to be spritzed avant or après ski. Like we said, every Seasons Collection scent is as French as you get.
WINTER KISS
Dossier Originals: The Seasons Collection
Main notes: Milky Accord, Chocolate, Incense, Cinnamon, Vanilla
Smell like: A sip of warm, rich, spiced, and milky hot cocoa.
Why Winter Kiss is the ultimate winter fragrance:
Winter Kiss celebrates the indulgence and gourmand sweetness of the winter season. This Dossier Originals scent opens with a warm, comforting embrace of milky accord, clove, nutmeg, and rum notes. The fragrance unfolds into a decadent, smoky, and rich heart of chocolate, incense, and cinnamon before unveiling a gourmand base of vanilla, vetiver, and creamy sandalwood. A tribute to winter’s great small pleasures, this smooth and mellow scent is enveloping, soothing, and addictive.
Winter Kiss x Woody Chestnut
Spritz the ultimate winter pleasure! Milky notes, chocolate, chestnuts, and spices combine to create a wonderland of winter delights. This layering combination smells warm and comfy yet offers some depth with a sensual base––harmoniously blending vanilla with smoky, woody tones.
Foliage, brisk air, and hot beverages epitomize the richness of this transitional season. Autumn signifies a time of reflection and a breath of fresh air before the festive season. Woody and fougere notes epitomize the autumn season. These smells and sensations reflect nature reaching the end of its cycle, preparing for the colder months ahead.
Stay tuned for our Autumn (and final) edition of Dossier Originals: The Season Collection later this year. Hint: It’s reminiscent of your favorite ski run but with a distinctly brisk, autumn-transitional twist. It’s great for those who appreciate the scenic beauty of these French natural beauties, minus the skiing.
Eager to layer up for autumn already? Our nose recommends this fragrance pairing to embrace this inviting season while you wait.
Sage & Black Tea Renew x Spicy Vetiver
The earthy and smoky tones of vetiver fuse flawlessly with sage, black tea and palo santo to create a vibrant and mysterious chiaroscuro fragrance.
