If “make it smell like tartan” was the brief, this perfumes creators have well and truly knocked it out of the park. It smells like musty highland garments - in the best possible way - stored in the upstairs bedroom of a Scottish castle. Downstairs in the library there’s a roaring fire where the landowner is defrosting following a round of wet, cold, coastal golf with a glass of single malt in hand. Put simply, this is art made wearable. Follow me on Instagram: @TheScentiest
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If you've ever smelled Hermès Ambre Narguille and thought, wow, this stuff is so sweet it's actually going to kill me...I think you might want to give Tartan a try. In reality, I don't know that they're all that alike, other than a rich woody tobacco-y October vibe, but while Ambre Narguille really leans into that syrupy apple compote, Tartan is balanced by acrid leather and an embossed flask of peaty, smoky whiskey. I smell a different aspect of it every time I wear it, but when I close my eyes it conjures wooly earthen moss, the molten gold of autumn, and skeins of snow geese low on the horizon.