Mulled Cider Demeter Fragrance Library Cologne

This is the scent of October.
Indian Summer in Connecticut, a trip to an apple orchard. For $10, pick as many apples as you want. Crisp McIntosh, Honeycrisp, Red Delicious, and Empire. And if you’re lucky, the day is fresh and bright, the sun shining through the red-yellow-green foliage of the trees, and on one of the gently rolling hills, you can see down into the valley and beyond to the sea.

In hand-woven baskets, pumpkins are piled up, and in the evening by the fireplace, with a glass of hot apple cider, sweet and spicy, saying goodbye to summer is not so hard anymore. Clove and coriander give a hint of winter.

Mulled cider is so autumnal and so comfortingly warm.
I don’t use it as a perfume. But starting in September, I always add a few drops to the bed linens, and memories of golden autumn days and apple pies gently lull me to sleep.