With winter around the corner, it’s time to think about what fragrance you’re going to wear. Here are our favorite winter colognes.

Those freezing temperatures are just around the corner, and in the blink of an eye you will find yourself digging out cashmere sweaters, shivering in your overcoats and draping those scarves elegantly round your neck.

It is time to think about the next most important element of your wardrobe – namely, your fragrance. The light, fresh, breezy scents of summer will no longer cut it, unfortunately. They should now be relegated to the back of your bathroom cabinet.

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This is a fragrance powerful enough to announce your presence, but one which will only scare off those who are not cool enough to understand. Loud, perhaps. Persistent, certainly.

It takes the original Oud Wood up a notch – and then some. Tom Ford himself describes it as “Unrestrained. Lavish. Intense.”

Oud Wood Intense starts out with a hit of spice, then fades into essence of oud with the kind of smoky intensity of burning wood, angelica, cypress, ginger and castoreum.

With leathery undertones and faint hints of juniper, Oud Wood Intense is for a bold, masculine man who needs to be seen and appreciated for his great taste – and it is perfect, of course, for winter wear.

Valentino Noir Absolu Oud Essence

Emphasizing the iconic oud ingredient, Valentino’s Noir Absolu Oud Essence was created by perfumer Julien Rasquinet in 2018.

It opens with top notes of leather and myrtle combined with heart notes of saffron and oud and finishes with deep base notes of cedar wood and sandalwood.

Noir Absolu Oud Essence is a rich, woody fragrance, yet with some powdery elements and softly spiced floral notes in a distinctly oriental aroma.

Masculine and highly seductive, the sleek black bottle pimped out with rockstuds and gold accents completes its unabashed virile image. It is all male – and then some.