Wedding Season Is Almost Here: The Best Fragrances For The Groom – Green Irish Tweed by Creed, Bois Imperial Essential Parfums, Layton Parfums de Marly.
Wedding Season is Fast Approaching: The Best Fragrances for the Groom – Green Irish Tweed by Creed, Bois Imperial Essential Parfums, Layton Parfums de Marly
With wedding season coming up fast, you future grooms out there might be wondering what scent you want to wear. Your aromatic signature is as much part of your appearance as your outfit and accessories and, as such, can set (or dampen) the mood of the day. Here’s my short list: Green Irish Tweed by Creed, Bois Imperial Essential Parfums and Layton Parfums de Marly.
Classic style – Green Irish Tweed
Green Irish Tweed by Creed is, for many guys, an old standby. It has a truly civilized soapy, clean smell. It opens with perky lemon and mint and then softens to a delicate floral note (violet leaves) and finally settles on warm, earthy notes (sandalwood and ambergris). You can almost feel the breeze in the Irish back roads.
Green Irish Tweed (Creed) is nostalgic without ever coming across as vintage; how else to explain its almost timeless, classic quality, defying the rise and fall of fashion? In addition to adornment and enjoyment, when we wear a scent like this, we are bestowing a gift of mood enhancement, producing within ourselves and our audience a sense of wellbeing.
This is the smell of a classic black-tie wedding. If the music was footsteps on a cold dancefloor being juxtaposed and cadenced into an elegant waltz, this is the fragrance possessing the light fluid grace of that twirling beautiful woman. If a smell were aligned with old money… a quiet refinement, it is Green Irish Tweed Creed encapsulates all that should be the very best elements of a wedding day. It doesn’t shout but the quiet confidence is there. It’s longevity is there too. It won’t intoxicate your friends, but they will be intrigued and impressed. Irish Tweed is the subtlest of floral citrus fragrances. It possesses the same light longevity and understated panache as that iconic face emblazoned on its silver box top. It belongs every bit as much in the accoutrements drawer as any Cartier or Tiffany adornment. It’s the fragrance of the groom who wants to be classic and understated. It epitomises something that never goes out of fashion while elevating confidence. A fragrance that walks the line between the strength of time-honoured tradition and the zinger of freshness is the perfect scent for a wedding day.
Modern style – Bois Imperiale
On the other hand, here is Bois Imperial Essential Parfums, a relative newcomer that hits like a freight train. Bois Imperial is a spicy woody scent that opens with zesty, tangy facets of freshly unpeeled grapefruit infused with the fiery hot facets of Nepalese pepper and the aromatic, minor-key smoulder of Thai basil. At its heart is a massive dose of massively wooden cedarwood, Akigalawood in the surrounding notes. It finishes with an earthy riot of vetiver and patchouli smells. It is spicy, woody and different, utterly unforgettable.
Modern, therefore, and saying something about contemporary stylistic and sartorial concerns, Bois Imperial brings a note of the new, and a clean, zesty freshness. It also underscores a strong woody quality that shouts ‘masculine’ without apology. Think of the groom as a cologne: subtle, understated, and the expected fragrance of the morning.
Indeed, the lightness, nature-toting spirit and eco-consciousness of Bois Imperial feel of-the-moment, perfect for the groom striving to go green in every fashion, including that which emanates from behind his head. Bois Imperial isn’t just a fragrance whose moment has come, but whose moment is coming, too.
Charismatic style – Layton
Second, Layton Parfums de Marly. A lot of seduction in this one. Imagine a top note of bergamot, mandarin orange and lavender, leading to a middle filled with a burst of hearty geranium and apple before reportedly ending in a fine blend of rich, spicy wafts of guaiac wood, patchouli, sandalwood, cardamom and sharp vanilla notes.
Layton PDM is a sensual olfactory homage to the suave groom and a charming swirl of fruity‑vanillic accords. It offers an irresistible contrast between sophistication and carefree nonchalance. For the groom who is at ease performing, who has a joke for every situation, who can make any room his oyster – a man who is regarded as cool, but has an endearing edge to his character. A man who plays as hard as he works. Playful, sweet and irresistibly seductive, with a sophisticated finish. It’s the fragrance for the groom who’s at ease cracking jokes as much as he is basking in the spotlight, a mysterious man who revels in the banter as much as he does the razzmatazz. For the groom who wants to perform at his wedding, his scent will make an impact just as much as he does.
The choice of fragrance can be very personal for your wedding day. Whatever scent is the ‘you’ you wished to send forth into the world on this most special of days (a classic, crisp citrus-infused smell, such as Tom Ford’s Green Irish Tweed; a sexual, virile, dark woodsy smell like Hugo Boss’s Bois Imperial; or a rich, luxurious, leather-and-spice fragrance such as Layton Parfums de Marly) all should be you – it’s about another marker of your identity on this day. Best wishes on your journey into the future. May your nose always know.
