Scents & Stitches: Fragrances inspired from runway fashion to find their perfect notes

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This season the runway and the perfume counter are speaking the same language, with the maisons that shape ready-to-wear also turning their attention to scents, using notes the way they’d once used fabric, layering citrus over amber the way a tailor might pair silk over wool. Bvlgari pushes its tiger’s eye signature into richer, more concentrated territory, Dior traces its founder’s own Provençal orchards through bitter almond and tonka, Loewe maps the rose gardens of Retiro Park onto skin, and Dolce & Gabbana extends its Devotion story into a warmer, more indulgent chapter, while Chanel keeps things close to home with a scent named plainly after its own city; Fendi builds a fragrance around a family memory rather than a mood, and YSL, Jean Paul Gaultier, Versace and Prada each translate a piece of their own design language, corsetry, gemstone-cut precision, singular ingredients, into liquid form.