Whether you like rain or can’t stand it, welcome the next shower or are sick and tired of it, you will experience it sooner or later. Are you ready?
Saturday Question #163:
What Is Your Favorite Rainy Day Perfume?
Do you have one? Are there different perfumes for different seasons? Do you like rain?
My Answer
I’m sure that growing up I was not too fond of rain. In the area where I lived, we had maybe 4 months when it wasn’t cold, windy, snowy or otherwise unpleasant. So, if the unpleasant weather was supplemented with rain, it didn’t make it any less miserable. And if the rain would come during those long-awaited short better months, it would spoil a day or two at a time.
I don’t remember when it changed. But after leaving through a couple of droughts in California, I love rain. And this year was fantastic! We had so much rain, and I enjoyed every grey and wet day of it. I don’t have a special perfume for a rainy day. But I wore Tauer Perfumes Vanilla Flash for the last two rains (including today), and it felt just perfect. I think our rains are almost over until October. But maybe I should buy a bottle and hope for the next rainy season.
How about you?
Undina's Looking Glass 
Chypre Mousse for autumn rain, and i think Mitsouko is perfect for a warmer rain in spring
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I’ll need to think of a summer rain perfume: it doesn’t rain here, but maybe I’ll travel to somewhere where it does.
I haven’t tried Mitsouko in a while: it will be interesting to check how I feel about it now.
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We have a lot of spring rain here. So gray. Spring is not my favorite Pittsburgh season. I do like Apres l’Ondee, with all of the stuff growing. For a cold rain. I enjoy those vanilla perfumes too – anything to warm me up.
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With that name, it’s a perfect candidate!
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Le Labo Vanille 44 – there must be something about vanilla…
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I was recently craving vanilla, so I wore that one as well!
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It is raining here right now! (The cats are less pleased by the thunder than I am.) I second Mitsouko and Apres l’Ondee, and Passage d’Enfer fits any gray day. Actually, it fits any kind of day.
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We rarely have a thunder (when it rains, it’s too cold, and when it’s warm, it doesn’t usually rain), but on those several occasions when we had thunderstorms, Rusty also didn’t appreciate it.
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Hmm… I don’t think I have perfumes that I prefer on a rainy day. Rather, I feel I have permission to wear those I like less, because I’m just going to stay at home and not do anything out of the ordinary.
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I know the feeling! Even though I wear perfumes mostly for myself, when staying at home I instinctively tend to choose “lesser” perfumes than I would had I been going somewhere.
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Given that any day here, at any time of year, could be a rainy day, then any of my perfumes qualify. I honestly never have rainy day perfumes a thought. But I really like your choice and also have that one, as well as Rose and Amber Flash. Guess you could call me a Flash fan.
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I liked all three when I tried them, but vanilla for whatever reason was the most attractive to me.
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Hmm, I don’t think I think of perfumes being suitable for a rainy day as such, more a cold or a warm one? But I guess a cosy scent for staying in would encompass the likes of Prada Candy, and all the incense ones. Hold on, I DO have a rainy day perfume after all, and it is indeed incense-based. I just remembered writing a post called “Cupolas and cobblestones” and making that explicit association with mb03 from biel. parfumkunstwerke…
“Yet at the same time the slight pricking sensation of the incense reminds me of the tingle of mizzling rain falling on paving stones (some of them cobbled!), and on my face; of dank cold days spent killing time on industrial estates, with not even the garishly lit but warm haven of a McDonalds for shelter. Mb03 is grey days and wet roads, windscreen wipers at full pelt and cold that gets in your bones. But there’s a hotel with a hot shower at the end of the murkily unspooling Landstrasse, followed by a flinty glass of Grauburgunder with my favourite dish of Zanderfilet and Salzkartoffeln.”
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Even though I was never a fan of those numbered perfume names, and I think I wasn’t impressed much by perfumes themselves, your description is so poetic that I feel an urge to look for the samples I might still have and revisit this one!
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I’ve never thought of a perfume that’s good to wear when it’s raining. Probably because in the UK it rains in all seasons.
In the last few days there have been thunder, lightening & torrential rains in the north of England. For those storms I’d choose Paco Rabanne Metal. I only have a smidge left but it is perfect for when the air smells of electricity & charged ions
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I love thunderstorms if I don’t need to be somewhere and can stay inside.
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Me too. I have been know to intentionally go outside to appreciate the blissful change in air pressure & temperature. The rain can actually feel warm in these humid conditions.
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Ormonde Jayne Ta’if, a good strong rose is great at lifting the spirits on a rainy day.
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Since Ta’if is one of my top three perfumes, it fits almost any occasion for me!
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I think most of the Jardin fragrances from Hermés work well on rainy days, but I admit to especially enjoying Un Jardin Aprés La Mousson on summer rainy days. Anything with lily of the valley works for me for spring rainy days. I also really like Miller Harris’ Violet Ida in rainy weather.
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Great choices!!
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I also like your choices!
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How did I miss this? Sorry for my tardiness.
We have excellent rainstorms here in Parramatta, often including lightning displays and thunder. Sometimes I wish we lived in a high rise so we could really appreciate the drama.
Fortunately the rain rarely lasts more than a couple of days with an hour or two of big guns.
My choices tend to be amber. YSL Velours, Guerlain Shalimar, L’Occitane Ylang & Vanille or any myriad others, oh yeah, Huitieme Art Myriad is another!!
Warm, cozy and sweet seems to be the draw.
Portia xx
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