Connections #1225: October 18, 2026

Connections #1225 sorted 16 words into four groups, and the colors tell you how the setter ranked them. Yellow was places to store clothes: BUREAU, CHEST, TRUNK, WARDROBE. Green was things that come in sticks: BUTTER, DEODORANT, DYNAMITE, INCENSE. Blue was famous perfumes: ANGEL, COCO, OBSESSION, OPIUM. Purple was starting with things that cloud the air: FOGERTY, HAZEL, MISTER, VAPORETTO.

Read the beginnings: FOGERTY → FOG; HAZEL → HAZE; MISTER → MIST; VAPORETTO → VAPOR. Each extracted word names something that clouds the air.

CHEST and TRUNK have meanings outside clothing storage, so check their partners BUREAU and WARDROBE before assigning them. BUTTER, DEODORANT, DYNAMITE and INCENSE share a form they can come in: sticks. The purple group depends on FOG, HAZE, MIST and VAPOR at the beginnings of the longer words, rather than those words’ everyday meanings.