Mulled Cider Demeter Fragrance Library Cologne

The Christmas season. Even though we are still far from it (what a shame…), one can at least look forward to what awaits us with scents like this one. Yes, it may be stressful; many dread having to see possibly unpleasant relatives again, and some even consider it the biggest waste of money ever. Nevertheless, one must admit that the atmosphere is absolutely delightful and it could even be perfect if it were to snow properly again.

But what else is associated with Christmas? Right, Christmas markets.
The colorful, sometimes freezing, and crowded markets where everyone, and I mean everyone, drinks endless liters of mulled wine to warm up and enjoy the hot, alcoholic beverage. Okay, I might be the only person who finds mulled wine and all other types of hot or warm alcoholic drinks disgusting, but for those who enjoy it, they get a scent that at least at the beginning smells quite like mulled wine, but then changes a little.

The scent:
It starts with a sweet-spicy apple. Immediately following is the cinnamon, which in this fragrance comes across as sweet rather than the bitter or spicier notes found in some other cinnamon fragrances.
You can really smell the mulled wine here, achieved through the combination of these scent notes, although the fragrance also occasionally (when the apple comes through stronger) reminds one of apple pie sprinkled with cinnamon. While especially at the beginning the scent resembles mulled wine, over time it increasingly turns into the aforementioned apple pie.

The longevity is quite okay, as it stays on the skin for several hours due to the spicy cinnamon. This also allows for a reasonably good sillage, although one shouldn't expect miracles (typical of Demeter).

The bottle is as boring as always, and the label is the same. Why Demeter didn't choose a special label here like in their fragrance "Christmas in New York" (comment coming soon...) is a mystery to me. Instead, you see the eternally dull bar with the name of the fragrance, as always.

This mulled wine scent is well captured, even though it also smells like cinnamon apple pie. It is wearable,... well, that can be seen either way. It is not really suitable for wearing as a perfume, as one would smell like a holiday-themed scented candle. But if you want to meet up with friends at a Christmas market and, like me, do not enjoy drinking mulled wine but are constantly urged to do so, then applying this fragrance can at least fool everyone into thinking you’ve had enough. Maybe it works. You can tell me about it at Christmas ;)