The meeting point is at the Tuileries Gardens in Paris. You leave the terrace of a café, kissed by the hot sun and cradled by the light wind, cold enough to invigorate your skin but not enough to give you chills. You catch your bike and cross the boulevards, then enter the gardens: the contrast between the fresh air and the hot sunrays is enhanced by the scents of dry leaves, wet wood, oak moss, chestnut and cold tobacco ...

The "Indian summer" takes place after the first frosts of autumn and just before winter (end of October, in the northern hemisphere): the trade winds of the Tropics fix anticyclones bringing soft and dry air that provokes almost summer conditions. Metaphorically, the expression evokes an unexpected or late life renewal.

While the origin of this expression is mysterious, it goes back to the beginning of the 19th century. One hypothesis suggests that it is linked to the traditional period when Native Americans completed their harvests and stocked their wigwam ("huts") with provisions; according to another source, the expression would be related to the English sailors, who had noticed a resemblance between autumn time in Europe and the weather observed in India during the summer.

That’s how Alexandre Dumas senior describes the olfactory resemblance between the notes of autumn and those of spring:

"There is something about spring in the fall,
and the last smells of the year
sometimes look like its first emanations." (Pauline - 1838)

Discover below our fragrances evoking the scents of this period.