Not too affected nor afflicted with one’s body heat or temperature even when it hits his highest, these fragrances leave a subtle trail on one’s skin.
Not surprisingly, one’s body heat affects the projection and sillage that a fragrance delivers. Hot weather intensifies the notes, allowing the fragrance to “bloom” on the skin. The catch is that all aromatic molecules — synthetic or natural — require some amount of heat to work. While warmth turns the tempo of evaporation and progression of the scent up, one may not always get what he wants at the dry down.
These fragrances here do not wither under the sun or dwindle in the heat. They can simply be thought of as “Summer fragrances”. Cold and crisp waters that have a relatively long sillage — even when one’s body warms up. Dossier’s Woody Oakmoss for example, is a Summer water that is a classic: a chypre that blends bergamot, rose, oakmoss and patchouli before warming it up with an amber base. A clean smelling and ethically sourced fragrance that goes toe to toe with the higher ends one.
Dior Homme Sport is light and bright with notes of bergamot, elemi, and woody notes while the Cartier Déclaration provides a tangy sharpness with birchwood, cedar, oakmoss, and orange. Lest one thinks they are too light, their sillage clocks in at a minimum of eight hours. Two fragrances that bloom despite rising temperatures.
It is also interesting that these fragrances do not interfere much with one’s major histocompatibility complex (or MHC for short). The MHC involves a “set of genes” that belongs to a person. Humans (and other animals) generally pick up signals from mates with dissimilar ones to make potential offspring more genetically diverse. In fragrance talk, these are familiar friends (overly complex fragrances can change one’s MHC “appearance) with some evergreen appeal.
And that could be a nod to Burberry Hero itself — an uncomplex but incredibly appealing blend of juniper, black pepper, and cedarwood.
Photography Jaya Khidir
Styling Tok Wei Lun
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