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The City Inspired Fragrances That Will Take You on a Global Scent Tour

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You don’t need an airline to travel around the world thanks to the transformative power of perfume. Studies show the impact that scent has on our memories. It allows us to access moments of our lives we want to relive. Perfumers use that scent-memory relationship to capture the mood and feeling of a time or place. That’s why we don’t need to visit Paris to know what it smells like. City-inspired fragrances are your instant ticket to worldwide travel!

Traveling With Scent

Vice President of Global New Product Development at Jo Malone London, Celine Roux, explains that perfumery is always a story. “Wood Sage and Sea Salt was inspired by a trip I took to Cornwall,” Roux says. “In Cornwall, the weather was not so good, and there was this moody drama to that cliff-side. I loved that feeling of freshness and openness. And when I got back to London, I called the perfumer and said, ‘I want to make a fragrance that smells like this cliff.’”

Many perfumers have sought to replicate the scents of internationally famous cities, like Paris and Milan. And one of the latest scents to join the ranks of city-inspired fragrances, Abel’s The Apartment, goes even further. Concentrating on the very heart of the city, this scent is inspired by the famous Paris apartments, L’Appartement Étoile. Overlooking the Arc de Triumph, these apartments are the height of Parisian chic.

By choosing ingredients local to the area or famously associated with it, fragrance experts craft homages to the cities they love. For example, spices like saffron become signatures of Casablanca, Morocco, while Italian-grown bergamot symbolizes Milan.

The City-Inspired Fragrances We Love

1 / 7

Abel The Apartment ($130)

Inspired by the beautiful apartments at the very heart of Paris, this deep gourmand balances the tartness of cherry with the gentle sweetness of tuberose, wrapped in a velvet embrace of myrrh and balsam.

 

abel the apartment

BASED ON

Paris, France

2 / 7

CHANEL Paris Riviera Eau de Toilette Spray ($150)

Based on the fresh scents of the French Riviera, this solar fragrance combines neroli with Sicilian orange for a burst of joyful brightness.

BASED ON

French Riviera

3 / 7

TOCCA Eau de Parfum Florence ($86)

Inspired by the classic scents of Paris, this fragrance opens with citrusy bergamot and develops into a blend of pear and gardenia for a romantic and timeless scent of the city.

TOCCA Florence Eau de Parfum

BASED ON

Paris, France

4 / 7

Byredo Casablanca Lily Extrait de Parfum ($375)

Casablanca, Morocco is a thriving city full of exciting blends of past and future, which is exactly what this perfume seeks to capture. It has a fruity burst of plum, sweetheart of Indian tuberose and an intoxicating rosewood base.

Byredo Casablanca Lily

BASED ON

Casablanca, Morocco

5 / 7

Jo Malone London Wood Sage & Sea Salt Cologne Spray ($118)

Seaside in the mist, Cornwall is a city of ancient history, where castle walls still stand. This scent seeks to capture the ocean spray, cliff-side in the early morning.

 

jo malone wood sage and sea salt

BASED ON

Cornwall, England

6 / 7

Fragrance Du Bois Milano Eau de Parfum ($345)

Milan is the fashion capital of the world and a global hub of creativity and romance. These features are captured here through Sicilian bergamot, seductive saffron and addictive base notes of leather and wood.

Fragrance Du Bois Milano

BASED ON

Milan, Italy

7 / 7

Oscar De La Renta New York Eau de Parfum ($98)

Distilling NYC into a single fragrance isn’t easy, but this gorgeous blend of strawberry, gardenia and sandalwood does just that. The harmonious balance of warm notes with bright florals perfectly defines the big city.

BASED ON

New York City

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