Orebella's new Cashmere Milk is a woody amber skin parfum built around milk, vanilla and cedar. It's the brand's seventh, and it's made for sweater weather.
Bella Hadid has spent a lot of her career in clothes that photograph beautifully, and her fragrance brand has just bottled the one garment everybody actually lives in. Orebella Cashmere Milk is the label’s newest Skin Parfum, a woody amber scent inspired by the warmth and comfort of a favourite cashmere sweater.
It’s the seventh Skin Parfum from Orebella, and it lands in a month when the beauty shelves are leaning hard into cosy. Cosmetics Business named it one of its need-to-know launches for November, in a week it describes as full of warming, comforting scents for autumn.
What it smells like
Hadid worked with Clément Gavarry, a perfumer at Firmenich, and the notes read like a knitwear mood board.
The opening pairs cocooning milk with bergamot, so the first impression is soft with a little citrus brightness on top. The heart is where the sweater really comes in: jasmine milk, vanilla caviar and amber. Underneath sits the woody part of that woody amber promise, with cedarwood, soft oak, cashmere woods and tonka bean.
Milk shows up twice, once at the top and once in the heart, which tells you what the brand wants you to notice. This is a scent about texture as much as smell. Think of the way a good sweater feels against your neck, then picture that as a perfume, with the cedar and oak keeping it from going sugary.
The Skin Parfum habit
Orebella has made the Skin Parfum its signature format, and with Cashmere Milk the collection now stands at seven. A line that size gives fans something to collect and compare. It also gives newcomers an easy way in: if you like one of the earlier scents, you know the format already, and the new one adds a seasonal option.
Gavarry’s name on the bottle is a nice detail for fragrance-heads. Celebrity-founder perfumes tend to get a lot of attention for the face behind them. Here the craft credit is front and centre, so you know who composed the thing.
Price and where to buy
The listed RRP runs from £32 to £95, and the scent is sold through orebella.com. Because that spread is wide, check the brand’s site before you shop. It will have the current prices, the options available and what’s in stock.
The rest of November’s new-ins
Cashmere Milk keeps good company in this month’s launch roundup. Parfums de Marly is expanding its Les Extraits Collection. Rin, which offers an alternative to traditional supplement tablets, pills and powders, is entering the UK market. Amika and The Nue Co are both making their first moves into body care, each carrying its signature scent into new formats. Make-up artist Val Garland has also teamed up with Weleda on a limited-edition set.
It’s a cosy, scent-heavy line-up, and Hadid’s entry fits right in. Cashmere Milk is the one for anyone who has ever pulled a sleeve over their hand, breathed in and thought, I’d wear this.