The 20 Best Fall Perfumes to Scent Yourself With This Season (2024)

Rose lovers, this one's for you. Rose de Grasse Rouge is an especially voluptuous take on the Queen of Flowers. Dewy and fresh, with a hint of honeycomb and musk in the dry down, it's like pressing your nose into a just-cut red-rose bouquet.

Notes: Red rose, Rose centifolia, Honeycomb Accord, Musk

As bright and enlivening as walking into a florist's shop on a cold winter day, Jo Malone English Pear & Sweet Pea is juicy, fresh, and clean. Perfect for those who crave sunlight when Daylight Savings Time comes to an end.

Notes: English Pear, Sweet Pea, White Musk

The warm, spicy hum of clove is typically detected, if at all, in the background of a composition. But here, in perfumer Jean-Claude Ellena's new creation for Frederic Malle, it is front and center, and the effect is revelatory. This is a sophisticated, grown-up scent, in which clove is joined by iris, ambrette, and carrot seed to create an effect that is both enveloping and irresistible.

Notes: Clove, Iris, Ambrette, Carrot Seed

If anyone can make a non-sickly vanilla, it's D.S. & Durga. This is a warm gourmand couched in tropical flowers and green vegetation that feels hypnotic, edgy, immersive—and not at all sweet.

Notes: Orchid, Pink Pepper Vines, Green Vanilla Leaves, Cypress Root, Vanilla Absolute, Patchouli

If the elephant-head cap alone doesn't sell you, the scent will: an inviting blend of wood, vanilla, leather and sesame milk suggestive of a banquette in a private club and a date with a mysterious stranger.

Notes: Leather, Vanilla, Sesame Milk, Wood

The fragrances in Aesop's Othertopias collection are designed to transport you to other realms—both real and imagined. This, the final installment, takes you to an open landscape where fiery cinders escape into a dark night sky, with notes of frankincense, lavender, patchouli, and myrrh. Churchy, but in the best possible way.

Notes: Petitgrain, Lavender, Hay, Frankincense, Myrrh, Tonka, Patchouli

Why shout when you can whisper? This transparent veil of bergamot, cardamom, tea and blonde woods is softly beckoning, making it a perfect unisex wear-anywhere scent.

Notes: Black Tea, White Tea, Bergamot,Cardamom, Blonde Woods,
Velvet Musk

Decadent and addictive, By Kilian's Smoking Hot was inspired by Apple Hookah flavor, but spins the fruity essence into an elevated, cold-weather-appropriate elixir with cinnamon bark, tobacco, oakmoss and vanilla.

Notes: Apple Hookah, Tobacco Absolute, Bourbon Vanilla

Countless treasures exist in the Medici gardens in Florence—among them, a Magnolia Grandiflora that graces the facade of Villa Medici di Castello. Magnolia flowers have an ethereal, captivating scent, and the softness of this perfume makes it especially suitable for fall. Spritz it onto a cashmere sweater, and dream of spring.

Notes: Magnolia, Jasmine Sambac, Champaca, Musk, Amber

In for an oud? Perfumehead's take on the love-it-or-hate-it note is so complex that you'll find yourself nose-to-wrist in suspense, trying to anticipate what might happen next. An ode to magic hour in Malibu (and, rather wonderfully, Olivia Newton John's "Xanadu"), Xanaboud starts off fresh and floral with Turkish rose, jasmine, and osmanthus, before unveiling rich, deep facets of patchouli, suede, and oud.

Notes: Turkish Rose, Jasmine, Patchouli, Suede, Oud

This intriguing collaboration between designer Gabriela Hearst and Patagonian botanical-forward perfume house Fueguia 1833 is about as unique—and as cool—as it gets. Bringing together inspiration from the Uruguayan landscape and the city that never sleeps, New York is a heady hit of fir balsam, patchouli, spices, maple resin, woods, and plant-origin musk. Like Manhattan itself, not for the faint of heart.

Notes: Tobacco, Fir Balsam, Maple Resin, Rose, Vanilla, Palo Santo, Patchouli, Nutmeg

The latest from Indian-French fragrance house LilaNur draws olfactive inspiration from the Kahwah tea ritual of Kashmir, in which a blend of green tea leaves, aromatic spices, flower petals and honey is heated over a fire, then served with a sprinkling of saffron strands and crushed almonds. Zafran Boisé is a similarly indulgent pleasure, with warm, enveloping notes of smoked saffron, rose, sandalwood and oud.

Notes: Saffron, Rose, Sandalwood, Oud

This unexpectedly fresh-but-warm scent combines a gourmand note of Bourbon vanilla with orange blossom, cinnamon, praline, and musk. Sweater weather just met its match.

Notes: Bourbon Vanilla, Orange Blossom, Cinnamon, Musk

Yes, rose is big this fall—and you might not encounter a bigger, bolder rose than this. Tom Ford's Café Rose pairs the flower's unmistakable, romantic scent with the earthy, inviting aroma of dark coffee. Both are smells worth lingering over—together, they make for an especially indulgent, and comforting, delight suitably for any gender.

Notes: Rose, Black Coffee, Ylang Ylang, Cardamom, Patchouli

If it's a sumptuous sillage you seek, look no further than Carmina, a distinctive (and distinctively expensive-smelling) woody floral composition that leaves a trail of rose, cashmere wood, black cherries, incense, and musk.

Notes: Rose, Cashmere Wood, Cherries, Incense

Each scent in Victoria Beckham's new fragrance collection is based on a personal memory: Suite 302 hearkens back to the designer's anniversary trips to Paris with her husband David... and a particular hotel room. Think: sensual musk, powdery violet, rich leather, and just a touch of black cherry and rose.

Notes: Violet, Musk, Rose, Tobacco Leaf, Leather

One of fall's most anticipated collaborations, Byredo's limited-edition collection with legendary natural skincare pioneer Susanne Kaufmann takes its inspiration from the forests of the Austrian Alps. This pulse-p0int oil, formulated with antioxidant-rich apricot kernel and meadowfoam seed, emanates the green freshness of pine-scented mountain air. with notes of juniper berries, fig, and jasmine.

Notes: Juniper Berries, Galbanum, Green Jasmine, Sweet Fig

Sweater weather, bottled. British natural perfumery Ffern's ode to autumn will have you dreaming of golden late-season farms and crackling fireplaces: a warm swirl of nutmeg, citrus rinds, fig leaf, jasmine, orris, vetiver, patchouli, and hay. Each of Ffern's releases is small-batch and hand-crafted in Somerset, so this is a one-chance scent—and all the more precious for its rarity.

Notes: Sweet Orange Rind, Lemon Rind, Fig Leaf Accord, Jasmine, Orris, Patchouli, Birch Tar, Hay

And now for something completely different: A fragrance inspired by the scent of an extinct flower. Using botanical specimens from Harvard's Herbaria, scientists sequenced the genetic codes (and mapped the scent molecules) of blooms that have disappeared from the planet for Future Society's collection of perfumes. Haunted Rose takes its cue from Macrostylis villosa, a small aromatic shrub that once produced clusters of white flowers throughout South Africa, and it smells like a sheer, fruity rose—but also like nothing else you've smelled before.

Notes: Saffron, Rose, Passionfruit, Sandalwood, Amroxan