Summer is a season of lightness, freshness and renewal. During this period, we often feel the desire to wear a fragrance that reflects these sensations, to feel perfectly at home.
In our last article, we talked about choosing between a fashionable perfume and a personalised perfume for summer. We advise you to choose a personalised perfume if you want to be unique. This article explores how to find the right summer scent notes to create a bespoke perfume for the season.
This guide will help you, whether you love perfume or not, to create a unique summer fragrance to make the most of summer.
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Inspiration and Selection of Ingredients
A made-to-measure perfume is a unique creation that reflects your preferences and personality. To create a summer fragrance, it's essential to choose ingredients that evoke summer.
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The Process of Creating a Summer Fragrance
Before creating your personalised summer fragrance, identify the notes that will give it a summery touch. This is crucial for a successful creation. Unlike trendy perfumes that are often standardised, your perfume will be unique, reflecting your personality while incorporating fresh, light notes.
To decide which scents are right for you, visualise what would make your summer ideal.
Think about the times and places that represent your favourite season. Perhaps a sunny day at the beach. Or an afternoon in a flower garden. Or a trip to the seaside.
Based on these images and memories, you can choose the notes that will make up your custom perfume.
In perfumery, a fragrance is made up of three types of notes: top notes, middle notes and base notes. The top notes are the first scents you smell when you put on perfume, but they quickly disappear. The middle notes are at the centre of the fragrance. The base notes last longer.
Elles assurent la longévité et la richesse de la fragrance. C’est grâce à cette structure que vous pourrez créer votre parfum.
Imagining summer memories to inspire your perfume
A day at the beach
What could be more relaxing than a moment spent listening to the gentle murmur of the waves, with your feet buried in the warm sand, and breathing in the salty ocean air?
To recreate this experience, combine notes of lemon and bergamot for a sensation of freshness. Add notes of coconut and fig to evoke the beach and exotic fruits. Finally, incorporate notes of sea salt and white musk to capture the salty, sweet essence of the ocean.
A walk in the forest in summer
Visualise yourself strolling through the majestic trees on wet ground, inhaling the fresh, clean air, while the birds chirp above you and the sun's rays filter through the thick foliage.
Pour créer cette ambiance, commencez par des notes de bergamote et de gingembre. Ensuite, ajoutez du vétiver, du cèdre et de la mousse de chêne pour le cœur. Terminez avec du patchouli et de l’ambre pour les notes de fond. Cela évoque la chaleur, la fraîcheur et la terre. Ces arômes créeront une sensation vivifiante et apaisante, rappelant la sérénité d’une escapade en pleine nature.
A sunny afternoon in a flower garden
You're sitting comfortably in a sun-drenched garden, surrounded by flowerbeds in full bloom. The scent of roses, jasmine and lilac wafts through the warm air. The golden sun gently caresses your skin.
You'll experience a feeling of softness and tranquillity. To reproduce this mood in fragrance, blend top notes of lemon and bergamot with heart notes of rose, jasmine and lilac, and base notes of white musk and sandalwood. This will capture a bright, welcoming, floral mood, evoking the joy and relaxation of a summer's day.
An evening out
Remember a summer evening spent walking along a mountain path, where the fresh air of dusk mingles with the woody aromas of the surrounding trees.
You feel the damp earth beneath your feet, while the scents of resin and pine float through the air.
To recreate this memory in fragrance, combine top notes of bergamot and black pepper for a lively opening, middle notes of pine, cedar and tobacco leaves to capture the depth of the woods, and base notes of musk and amber to evoke the comforting warmth of the evening.
Drawing on these summer memories and images, you can identify the scent notes that resonate with your personal vision of summer. This process will allow you to create a bespoke fragrance that truly captures the essence of the season while reflecting your unique style. In our next article, we'll take you through the process of creating a bespoke summer fragrance.
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