Alexa Chung on her signature, smoky scent
The style icon and presenter tells us about her olfactive scent and her love for peppery, men's fragrances
‘I like to smell nice. I have told everyone [that I wear] Le Labo Santal 33 but apparently oils are the best thing. And Le Labo do oils, which I didn’t know about.
But yeah I was meant to meet that guy, I was like, ‘I want to meet that guy because he’s an American and I live in America’ and then he ran into a friend of mine and was like, ‘I don’t know why she wants to meet me’ and I was like, ‘I don’t know why I want to meet you.’
"Boys always have good things on – like peppery things – which I like."
He was like, ‘I don’t even know who this chick is!’ I was just kind of like, ‘f**k it, something can happen. Can’t we just make something nice even if it’s just something for me to have at home, like a candle?’
I used to wear Creed. The green one (Fleurissimo). And Dover Street Market has a really nice yellow one (Fantasia de Fleurs). I used to like nicking my boyfriend’s perfume but that’s because I bought them for him. Boys always have good things on – like peppery things – which I like.’
Le Labo Santal 33, £138 at Liberty