Frédéric Malle · 2026 · Bruno Jovanovic

Northern Love

VersionEau de Parfum

Warm cinnamon and saffron spice with a biscuit-like sweetness, resting on creamy sandalwood, jasmine and vanilla.

A shop’s page says

You’ll smell creamy sandalwood, cinnamon, warm spices and vanilla.

More from Frédéric Malle’s description

It also mentions Spicy biscuit accord, Saffron, Jasmine and Sacrasol.

The shop’s page

The drawn Northern Love bottle

Top noteswhen you spray it

Heartas it settles

Dry-downwhat stays

Northern Love’s scent picture, a draft: sandalwood, cinnamon, warm spices, vanilla (vanillin), saffron, jasmine drawn so far; dashed outlines where nothing is drawn yet

Top noteswhen you spray it

Northern Love, top notes: Bergamot, Lemon, Lavender

Heartas it settles

Northern Love, heart: Cinnamon, Warm spices, Jasmine

Dry-downwhat stays

Northern Love, dry-down: Sandalwood, Vanilla (vanillin), Saffron, Patchouli, Peru balsam, Iso E Super (pencil shavings on velvet), Hexadecanolactone (musk)

What’s inside it

What the label names

31 scent ingredients on the label, familiar names first.

A label must name certain ingredients, most of them ones that can cause allergies; some houses print more. It is never the whole recipe.

6 citrus5 herbs & lavender4 florals5 woods1 sweet2 amber & resins5 spices1 musks2 powder

7 more lines on the label, not there for the smell

The label, as printed on the house’s page

Our match of the notes

Shares its notes

Side EffectInitio · shares sandalwood, cinnamon, saffron and jasmine$420 for 90 ml
Instant CrushMancera · shares sandalwood, vanilla, saffron and jasmineabout $174 for 120 ml
Noir ExtremeTom Ford · shares sandalwood, vanilla, saffron and jasmine$240 for 100 ml
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Matched by the notes each house names. A shared note is not a promise they smell alike.