Northern Love is the Eau de Parfum that Bruno Jovanovic composed for Frédéric Malle, released in 2026. The house writes in it a love letter to modern romanticism, a bittersweet hug, warm and comforting over a cooler, nostalgic base, around a very milky sandalwood, warmed by a cinnamon that recalls speculoos, over vanilla.
Cinnamon and saffron form the top notes, sandalwood and jasmine the heart, vanilla the base.
Sandalwood
According to the house, Bruno Jovanovic amplifies the creamy character of sandalwood into an extremely milky sandalwood. Cinnamon slips in a nod to speculoos, and vanilla extends the composition.
Other readings
Now Smell This listed in August 2026 creamy sandalwood, cinnamon, vanilla, saffron and jasmine. Vivir places saffron, speculoos, nutmeg and cinnamon at the top, vanilla and jasmine among the heart notes, and sandalwood at the base, with leather, styrax, Peru balsam and patchouli.
What the label declares
The INCI list declares Santalum album sandalwood oil and santalol, its main constituent, patchouli oil, Peru balsam, cinnamon bark oil and vanillin. OTNE, an amber woody material known as Iso E Super, and hexadecanolactone, a macrocyclic musk, are added, with three UV filters.
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