GUIDE · 6 min

The Best Summer Fragrances

Ten bottles our curators reach for when the temperature climbs — from salt-air citrus to smoky vetiver.

Warm weather rewrites the rules of fragrance. Molecules move faster on hot skin, sillage swells, and heavy oud can quickly turn to weight instead of presence.

For summer, our editors reach for compositions that lean transparent — hesperidic citrus, salted musk, iris-and-vetiver skeletons that stay quiet at noon and read confident at dinner.

The bottles below are the ones we're wearing this year, curated by three of our founding creators.