Perfume reviews ~ Everything’s gone green

It seems like I’ve been here before. . . In honor of Labor Day weekend and the unofficial end of summer, I thought I’d round up a few fragrances that helped me get through recent high temperatures and low moods. I don’t usually consider myself a “green” fragrance aficionado, but maybe it’s a seasonal taste for me—there’s definitely a pattern. Every year, when the mercury rises, I start to crave perfumes that evoke weeping willows and rippling streams and vegetable gardens and mint juleps. You get the idea! So, here are a few longtime favorites and new loves in the leafy-green sub-genre that I’d like to recommend. Feel free to share your own cooling perfume picks in the comments. . . ERIS Parfums Green Spell (2021, Antoine Lie): I start digging out a sample vial of Green Spell as soon as the summer solstice arrives, because Green Spell encapsulates some of the season’s the most magical botanical elements: tomato leaf, the stemmy scent of galbanum, a sliver of orange peel, a sunny…