The essential products for your autumn beauty routine

The arrival of autumn means a return to warm fragrances, comforting days spent indoors and more moisterising, reparative skin and haircare. Below, we share an edit of the best launches of the season so far to help you build a new, cool-weather ready beauty routine.

Azophi candles

Azophi is a new candle brand created by an anonymous collective of fashion designers who wanted to create for themselves what they couldn’t find in stores: candles perfectly suited to their showrooms in Paris, London and Milan, which set the mood without any loud branding. The result is a collection of candles in discrete white ceramic vessels with three scent options: Adhara Rose, a clean mineral floral; Antares Oudh, a resinous frankincense and amber scent; and (our favourite) Sirius Ember, a black pepper and cedarwood scent that has a burnt, lightly incensed quality.

Whoever Azophi’s founders are, they succeeded in their aim. These candles quickly fill a room with scents that are distinctive without being distracting, their long burn time means they can go for hours (ideal for a candle designed to accompany you through a working day).

Available from azophi.co.uk.

Hermès Barénia Eau de Parfum Intense

Hermès’ Barénia Eau de Parfum quickly solidified itself as a brand classic when it was launched last year. The brand’s first chypre perfume (a fragrance family defined by light, often citrusy top notes with deep, mossy and/or woody base) Barénia takes its name from Hermès’ signature leather and is designed to have the same supple quality on the skin. Like its forebearer, the new Barénia Eau de Parfum Intense is a ‘skin perfume’ with a subtle composition that is designed to naturally enhance your natural scent. Yet, whereas the original Barénia left behind a clean, gently woody fragrance, this new iteration uses a richer patchouli for greater impact.

Delicate notes of butterfly lily are combined with musky leather and then, most notably, the fragrance is roasted to create a unique, rum-like quality throughout. It’s syrupy but, at the same time, too animalic to be called sweet– a strangeness that makes it hard to place, but also addictive or, put another way, the kind of scent you keep smelling on your wrist all day.

Best of all for this time of year, it has the goldilocks quality you want from an autumnal fragrance–rich enough for cooler days, without the headiness you typically want from a winter fragrance.

Available from azophi.co.uk.

Perfumer H bath collection

Perfumer H is one of those if-you-know-you-know brands, the kind that rarely bothers with self-premotion because its devoted cohort of followers would never think of shopping anywhere else. All of the brand’s fragrances are designed by founder and celebrated nose, Lyn Harris, who is known for her ability to transform innocuous elements of everyday life into rich, artisanal scents (crowd favourites ‘Ink’ and ‘Salt’ are perfect examples of this). Now, the brand has branched into bath products with a shower and hand wash, body lotion and bar soap in one of its most iconic scents, ‘Rain Wood,’ a wet, earthy scent of juniper, cedar wood and patchouli.

As with everything Perfumer H does, craft is of preeminence importance, with soap bars are handmade in Lancashire using traditional methods to soften skin, while the wash and lotion come in elegant, weighty bottles. The perfect way to welcome the arrival of cooler days and a return to days spent unwinding in comforting baths.

Available from perfumerh.com.

Victoria Beckham Foundation Drops with TFC8

Victoria Beckham and Augustinus Bader have both earned a reputation for creating some of the best-performing beauty products out there, so it’s no surprise that the products they have created in collaboration– a serum, a primer and a concealer pen– have already gained a cult following. The duo’s latest launch, The Foundation Drops, is its most exciting yet. Combining Beckham’s expertise with long-lasting, perfectly-pigmented makeup and Bader’s transformative TFC8 skincare, the foundation strikes the balance between lightweight and high-coverage, actually improving the appearance of skin with continued wear.

Available from victoriabeckhambeauty.com.

Cuir hair care

Cuir is a new haircare brand from the same people behind La Bonne Brosse, the luxury French brand that has become a cult favorite for its boar-head brushes that dramatically improve hair health. Cuir takes the same principle behind La Bonne–that your best hair is achieved through an investment in straight-forward, quality products–one step further.

Each ingredient in the line’s fortifying serum, sulphate-free shampoo and a detangling spray, is considered, with a formulation of nutrients, vitamins, good bacteria and bio-fermentated ingredients that work to protect the scalp’s natural oil production rather than strip it back. Even regular water is replaced in the products with more nutrient-rich alternatives like rice water, bamboo water and grape water.

Together with La Bonne brushes, Cuir offers an easy routine that will totally transform hair: brush to stimulate blood circulation, then massage with serum to purify the scalp, wash with the shampoo to regulate oil and protect with the spray for enduring hair health. All Cuir products come in ombre glass bottles that are refillable and designed for display.

Available from labonnebrosse.com.