Match your wedding-day flowers to your fragrance

By Deborah Fulsang

Now that we have officially entered wedding season—fyi, 49% of weddings occur between July and September—’tis time to fine-tune your wedding-day fragrance. Or better yet, if you’re the bride but have yet to finalize the floral decisions make sure your bouquet suits your favourite spritz. And vice versa.

We recently came upon the sage advice of scent expert Roja Dove whose top tip reiterates the point: “Choose your fragrance before your bouquet,” he says. “You can then use the same (or complementary) flowers for a lasting scent.”
Allow us then to make a few wedding-day fragrance-and-flowers suggestions:

ROSES
If you love rose-based fragrances and plan on carrying a bridal bouquet overflowing with classic hybrid teas or plush old fashioned David Austins, consider wearing these recently launched and timeless rose fragrances:

Balenciaga L’Eau Rose: It takes the violet note found in all of the Balenciaga spritzes and mixes in rose, blackberry and spicy patchouli, cedar and Cyprus. EDP, $98 (50 ml)

Le Labo Rose 31: This is a rose fragrance for those who love roses but not the traditional prim reputation that one might associate with it. Its darker spices and woody notes lend the concoction a masculine lustiness. EDP $220 (100 ml), www.barneys.com, www.geebeauty.com

PEONIES
Mad for the scent of romantic peonies? You’re likely a devotee of their fluffy blooms too. Try the following for your big day:

L’Occitane Pivoine: The intoxicating scent of peony is mixed with magnolia and woody notes in this true-to-the-peony spritz. EDP $65 (50 ml), www.loccitane.com

Jo Malone Peony & Blush Suede: If your wedding isn’t until the fall, hold out until then for a sniff of this new offering. With reported notes of peony, red apple, rose, honey and suede, we have a hunch it will be worth waiting for the September debut.

LILY OF THE VALLEY
So you, like the legendary couturier Christian Dior, love the heady perfume of lily of the valley and plan on carrying a bouquet of this ultra-feminine bloom on your wedding day. Consider then:

Diorissimo: Top notes of bergamot and calyx; middle notes of lily of the valley, jasmine, ylang-ylang and lilac; and a base of sandalwood, swirl together to create a most elegant, fresh and romantic toilette. $92 (50 ml), www.thebay.com

Penhaligon’s Lily of The Valley: This scent, beloved by lily of the valley fans, possesses a heady white flower heart of lily of the valley, rose, ylang-ylang and jasmine and opens with sparkling citrus and geranium top notes; it lingers to a trail of warm musky oakmoss and sandalwood. £85 (100 ml), www.penhaligons.com