this perfumista's Spring Top 5

Ah goodness, it is now officially spring in NYC! I climbed a tree tonight - sometimes I swear I will never grow up - and had my hair played with by the wind. I love the city during this season.

Inspired by a recent post on For The Love Of Perfume, I went back over all the perfumes I had, looking at all the scents I usually wear for spring. I'm a fairly scattered person when it comes to fragrance (though I tend to prefer the word "dilettante" over "scattered"), so it's difficult to narrow down a spring versus summer fragrance. For instance, I'm desperately in love with L'Artisan's Verte Violette, but would that count as a spring or a summer scent? Violets tend to be associated with spring, but the scent is so lovely I wear it all the time once the weather warms. Therefore, I can't call it a strictly spring scent. So I had to set some rules for myself:

-It has to be a fragrance I wear mostly during the timeframe of end-March to late-June.
-It has to be something I wear regularly, not just love once, swoon madly, and then put away.
-It has to be something I've actually purchased from someplace, rather than acquired as a decant.

And with that, the list assembled itself nicely.

5) Lagerfeld's Sun Moon Stars

No, I am not ashamed of this - I do love it for spring. With its musk-and-sandalwood base, it's better on me than Kenzo Flower yet still has the same powder and violet topnote nature. Definitely not as thick as a jasmine and narcissus scent would imply.

4) Fresh Sugar

Not Sugar Blossom, or Sugar Lemon, or any other old or new variety of sugar-whatsits. Fresh Sugar is stunning citrus and sugar with a faint hitch of spice. I love this stuff so much in spring that I've gone through two 1.7 oz bottles of it. Granted, my skin drinks perfume, but still...

3) elizabeth W Hyacinth

Oh, I have been hoarding this ever since I discovered that they're no longer making it. It is, literally, the best soliflore I know. Blue and green and syrup-floral and sharpgreen and... *exhales happily*

2) L'Artisan Tilleuls Au Vent

I know most people don't include room sprays in lists such as these, but I did purchase this strictly to wear as a spring scent. It's lovely and light green, with the uniqueness of greenish floral over the faintest lemon peel and pekoe notes.

1) Guerlain Apres L'Ondee

I want to wear this all the time. I want to take it out in summer and fall. But you know, it just doesn't seem right anytime else. The slightly ozonic nature, the vaguely wet-pavement smell over the violets? It truly is the best spring fragrance I own. Which is good for me, because I own a LOT of it. ;)

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Now I'm curious - what are other people's all time favorite spring scents?