Get ready to stamp your olfactory passport in South America. From the valleys of the Andes to the sprawling arms of the Amazon, Latin America offers myriad scents. Start your adventure with a cup of hot, nutty coffee – Columbia is home to some of the highest quality coffee in the world, and Brazilian coffee is known for its intense sweetness with caramel and chocolate notes. We recommend Replica's Coffee Break eau de toilette for its aromatic and warm notes of coffee, cedarwood and vetiver. Also you must try Montale’s Intense Café brew. It's creamy, it’s soft, and itcomforts you with vanilla, white musk and coffee bean notes.

Fancy trekking through South America's lush Amazon rainforest? Try balsam-based perfumes – Peruvian balsam is a colossal tree native in El Salvador and comes from the thick brown resin of trees in the Cordillera del Bálsamo mountain range. The ingredient is renowned for its rich, sweet qualities – much like Tom Ford’s balsam-based Black Orchid eau de parfum, infused with vanilla, dark chocolate and sandalwood.

Floral, woody, fresh, smoky – Far Eastern-inspired fragrances are as varied as the region itself. Begin with a woody floral perfume such as Xerjoff Alexandria III Pure Perfume, an oud fragrance that combines Thai and Laotian oud with Bulgarian rose and spicy cinnamon. Next, it's Bulgari's luxurious scent inspired by saffron. The Le Gemme Azaran Eau de Parfum combines its star of the show, saffron, with leathery and bergamot aromas for an intoxicatingly exotic fragrance.Last but not least, for an exotic twist on a summer scent, Tom Ford’s Soleil de Feu Eau de Parfum fuses tuberose accord, warm ambers and sandalwood for a rich and woody finish.

There’s an abundance of pine trees in Sweden, in fact, about 40% of the country’s forests are made up of pine trees. Combine pine notes with a Stockholm-based brand, and you’ve got the ultimate Scandivanian spray. Byredo has stormed the Scandi scent scene since it launched in 2006, and it's now-iconic Gypsy Water smells like wintry woodlands, juniper berries and incense. The 05 Escentric Molecules Eau de Toilette is another fragrance favouring pine scents, wrapped up in a woody, musky finish. And if you have a nose for forest fragrances, give Serge Lutens’ Parole d'Eau Eau de Parfum a whiff, minty eucalyptus leaves and Siberian pine needles make it a calming and subtle spritz. 

We’ve come full circle on our fragrance voyage and landed back in Britain, but we promise that exciting scent discoveries still await. Where better to start than the Harrods store itself? There are treasures such as Escentric Molecules H01 eau de parfum that blends wood, leather and musk reminiscent of the famous halls.  Harrods is the muse behind Robert Piguet Knightsbridge – an exclusive rose fragrance that brings some of the most cherished ingredients in perfume to the fore. Orris, derived from the bulbs of the iris plant, is at its heart and is sought after since it takes up to four years to mature before it develops its powdery sweet scent.

Also paying homage to Harrods is Ex Nihilo Brompton Immortals  Extrait  de Parfum. The spicy vanilla perfume fuses old and new in terms of fragrance notes – like Harrods itself. You’ll notice the distinctive Harrods logo illustrated in all of its glory on the front of Acqua di Parma's new and exclusive  Zafferano, it's aptly infused with the world's most precious spice, saffron, and embodies our Knightsbridge store's grandeur and opulence. 

We’ll end our world tour with a trip to rural England at dusk in the form of Burberry Signatures Midnight Journey Eau de Parfum. Notes of thyme, lavender and rose mingle with enigmatic myrrh and black amber to evoke a shadowy pastoral evening.  Finally, soak up the best of the British Highlands courtesy of Jo Malone’s woody Highland Heather Cologne  infused with English lavender.