The Best Fall Scents of 2020

For those who dread the coming of Labor Day and its perceptible shift into autumn, this option offers eternal summer with one spritz. It smells like a bottled Brazilian beach, but its warming notes of pistachio, vanilla, and salted caramel are still cozy enough to wear in September and beyond. 

For sandalwood purists, this is the ultimate purchase: woody Australian sandalwood, giac wood, and bergamot come together to create a sweet, spicy mist that's flat-out intoxicating. 

This scent is the fragrance equivalent of a weighted blanket. With comforting notes like musk, vanilla, and tonka bean, you'll smell like your skin, but sweeter.  

Elegant and green, a spritz of Gucci's chamomile and jasmine blend smells like a walk through an enchanted forest as the leaves begin to turn. 

Imagine a stroll through Paris on an October afternoon. We can guarantee this option from Gamine would feel right at home in the fantasy: the heady blend of Cote D'Azur cypress, vetiver root, chocolat noir, and Indonesian patchouli is equal parts sultry and sophisticated. 

While you can wear it on its own, this orange blossom and dew-driven juice juice is actually a fragrance enhancer, meant to be layered with your favorite perfumes to provide a floral shift. 

Juniper berries, patchouli, and green leaves make for a pleasurable earthy scent—Rub this oil on your pulse points and even at the ends of your hair as an alternative to your classic eau de toilette. 

You know that first brisk autumn night when you have to slip on your denim jacket for the first time in months? This dusk-inspired, Hawaiian Jasmine and Queen of the Night-driven scent captures that intoxicating feeling and atomizes it. 

The only thing better than finishing a good novel is cracking one open to reveal that waxy new book smell, and Maison Margiela's spicy interpretation takes that to an elegant new level. Tonka bean warms the scent, while pepperwood and cedar call the woody scent of an old gothic library to mind. 

Escentric Molecules makes the case for a one-trick pony. Cashmeran, the sole and laboratory-made note in Molecule 05, evokes a dry musky warmth that wears like a second, more sultry skin. 

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