From budget Lush to niche Dusita Parfums. Here are some fragrances worth trying this spring. Peony, magnolia, rosemary, grapefruit, lavender and other notes in eau de parfums and colognes of the season!
1. Eau de parfum Fabulous, Tom Ford
The matte black bottle in the shape of a chess piece immediately attracts attention. It is impossible not to fall in love at first sight with the aroma with notes of bitter almond and clary sage oils, tonka beans, fresh lavender, accords of skin and violet root - that is why it is “Fabulous”. Tom Ford himself comments on the name of the novelty: "I prefer to express my thoughts directly and appreciate the simplicity." A straightforward, frank and exclusive scent will be a great addition to your outfit at an evening event. By the way, he is very persistent: he will stay with you for the whole party and will stay until the morning.
Price: 22 600 rub.
2. Eau de parfum Lilac Love, Amouage
Lilac Love is the first fragrance in The Secret Garden line, "Secret Garden". But the smell of lilac is not quite garden-like - alive and crumbly, but subtly sugared, as if the Ladurée confectioners hired for the royal wedding had worked with it.
Price: 35,000 rubles. (100 ml)
3. Eau de parfum Page 29, Francesca dell'Oro
In the early evening, the bartender mixes a sweet Menheim 370 cocktail: lemons and rosemary are spread out on the counter, a bottle of vanilla syrup is comfortably gilded behind his back.
Price: 13 600 rub. (100 ml)
4. Eau de parfum Candy, Prada
Vanilla flan is a typical Spanish dessert from Pedro Almodovar's film The Return, where it is expertly prepared by Penelope Cruz. The dark internals of the vanilla pod, the silky custard, the satiated warmth of the oven - Candy has everything you need to fight sugar cravings.
Price: from 5 283 rubles. (50 ml)
5. Eau de parfum Nirmala, Molinard
A real "fruit box": strong tangerines at the bottom, delicate mangoes and peaches under the lid itself.
Price: 5 600 rub. (75 ml)
6. Oud Osmanthus, Mona di Orio
Oudh Osmanthus (before the rebranding of the brand it was simply called Oud) was the last fragrance released during the lifetime of perfumer Mona di Orio - and one of her best works. There are two reasons why osmanthus appeared in the name - a small, but very fragrant flower with a complex smell of apricot, leather and soap, as the co-founder of the brand Jeroen Aude Sogtun explains: firstly, buyers expected something more straightforward from Uda - in any case, more obvious woodiness, and secondly, osmanthus in the composition is almost more important than the same oud. The latter, by the way, here gives the ideal golden East - without manure, plasters, antiseptics and other noises.
Price: 22 150 rub.
7. Oud Palao, Diptyque
Oud Palao has a very beautiful beginning from the rainforest: the earth squishes underfoot, green air trembles in the crowns of eucalyptus trees, and emerald and menthol roses suddenly bloom in the undergrowth. Rose with oud is a perfume cliché that came from the Arabian Peninsula, but Oud Palao comes from some other place, most likely from Southeast Asia (according to the Diptyque legend, the oud used in the composition is mined in Laos). The main component here behaves modestly: incense and flowers gradually move across the field, and the oud accord holds the rear - a clot of fragrant darkness in the base of the fragrance.
Price: 13 275 rubles.
8. À La Nuit, Serge Lutens
A La Nuit - Jasmine Jasminovich among perfumery jasmines, an ideal soliflor (a scent-portrait of one flower, albeit “collected” from many ingredients). It has everything that the protagonist is famous for: green freshness and carnal warmth, the sweetness of light, transparent acacia honey and fecal shades of indole, light and shadow. Like many soliflora, it gets a little monotonous over time, but calling À La Nuit boring is like making the same claims to a jasmine bush outside the window.
Price: 8 400 rub.
9. Chamade, Guerlain
The heyday of creativity of Jean-Paul Guerlain, the author of Chamade, fell on the pre-feminist time, when it was still considered decent to talk about perfume as a seduction tool. “Perfumes are made so that the woman who wears them is remembered more often,” Guerlain said. “I call it the" elevator effect. "Imagine: a man goes on a date with his beloved - a bride, wife or mistress. She walks into the house where she entered a minute earlier and smells the scent of her perfume. His heart leaps out of his chest. " This is exactly how - "frantic beating of the heart" - Chamade is translated from French, and its other meaning is "drum roll, signal of surrender of the besieged to the enemy." The image is clear and coincides with the content: the man fell, the woman won the victory and graciously accepts flowers - freshly cut hyacinths and daffodils in a rosette of green leaves sticky from herbal juice.
Price on request
10. Mélodie de l'Amour, Dusita Parfums
It is believed that the production of natural gardenia oil - a flower with a complex, green and at the same time creamy scent - is unprofitable, but companies that produce it in small quantities do exist. Mostly artisans with tiny editions, such as London perfumer Sultan Pasha Attars, turn to them for expensive absolute, but there are exceptions. For example, Dusita is a French brand founded by Pissara Umavidjani, a self-taught Thai perfumer. This year she received the “golden pear” for the gardenias and tuberoses of Mélodie de l'Amour - the main prize in niche perfumery - and now officially in the ladies, although it was already clear about Melodie: a large perfumery.
Price on request
11. Carnal Flower, Frédéric Malle
If Poison is the most popular tuberose, then Carnal Flower is the most realistic. Here you can find menthol greens, coconut milk, and metallic notes - the complex relief of a natural aroma is considered in every detail by a perfume echo sounder. Those who want Gauguin's debauchery need tuberose Santa Maria Novella or Robert Piguet, here - pure photorealism.
Price: 5 250 rub.
12. Death and Decay, Lush
Death and Decay was released as part of the third fragrance collection, which was made for Lush by Gorilla Perfume. The collection is called Death, Decay & Renewal, it has 9 fragrances, and Death and Decay is its flagship. The meaning of the statement here boils down to the following: death is inevitable, and beauty fades, but ours is still in perfect order - we will still be buzzing. They buzz very sonorously - into the bass trombones of lilies and yellow flutes of ylang-ylang, extracting pollen and vanilla from the former, and banana jam from the latter.
Price: 2 300 rubles.
13. Bal d'Afrique, Byredo
"African Dance" is a dedication to the black dancer and singer Josephine Baker, the star of the Foley Bergere variety show and the muse of Baudelaire and Le Corbusier. One of Baker's most popular acts was The Banana Dance, which she performed in a banana-rag loincloth and was usually topless. Nevertheless, Bal d'Afrique is doing well with the “top” - it is violet greens with a drop of lemonade, and rag bananas have turned into banana jam, passionfruit syrup and other tropical fruits.
Price: 9 750 rub.
14. Cologne Peony and Blush Suede, Jo Malone London
The official description promises “playful notes of juicy red apple” and “sensual softness of delicate suede”; Both, fortunately, get a non-trivial interpretation in Peony and Blush Suede: here the apple is tart and astringent, like the must for the Norman Calvados, and the “suede” works with a beautiful powdery accord that adds depth to the main colors. The peonies themselves are also good - with a dense, thick, bitter honey aroma of petals already touched by wilting.
Price: From 3 800 p. (30 ml)
15. Eau de parfum Fleur Narcotique, Ex Nihilo
Narcotic Flower is the most popular fragrance in the Ex Nihilo portfolio. The latter is growing by leaps and bounds (largely thanks to the same "Flower", which provides the French with a strong financial rear), but in the ratings of the works of the Parisian brand, which visitors of perfume forums like to compose, Fleur Narcotique traditionally takes first place. The secret of "Flower" is a large dose of the synthetic substance Petalia, which has a persistent and diffuse scent of peonies, roses and grapefruit; "Little bomb" - that's what the creator of the fragrance Quentin Bish calls him.
Price: 24 000 (50 ml)
16. Eau de parfum Vert Pivoine, Histoires de Parfums
The name is the key to understanding this fragrance: the stems, leaves and rhizomes for Green Peony are as important, if not more important, than the flowers. The fact that the peony belongs to perennial shrubs and is appreciated by gardeners, in particular for its lush foliage, Vert Pivoine recalls with a realistic scent of greenery with bitter woody shades - this is how flowering bushes smell right after generous watering in early summer.
Price: 6 020 rub. (60 ml)
17. Eau de parfum Fleur Musc for Her, Narciso Rodriguez
A peony and a rose go very well with each other - even at the chemical level: the same organic compounds work as important components of the scent of a peony, which largely determine the smell of the second flower. Perfumers are happy to use this natural relationship in their work - there are a great many scents in which a peony is "grafted" to a rose; however, not every flower garden is planted on such fertile soil - the recognizable musky-patchouli base of Narciso Rodriguez.
Price: from 3 630 p. (30 ml)
18. Eau de parfum Evening Rose, Aerin
This rose is both dark and transparent, like a black silk stocking. And just as flawlessly "merges" with the skin: when the golden wave of cognac subsides and the burgundy petals fall off, an elegant woody-amber base will remain - not too loud, but dense enough to be remembered.
Price: 6 720 rub.
19. Eau de parfum Roses Musk, Montale
A whole section on the Montale website is called Around the Rose, which is not surprising: the French brand, which has done more to popularize the Arabian style in perfumery than all Arab brands put together, must respect the rose. Unfortunately, the beautiful Taif Roses have already been discontinued, but Roses Musk remains - flowers and musk, freshly watered roses and clean linen hung out to dry in the garden. The fragrance is exceptionally calm by Montale standards, but the persistence is expected to be high.
Price on request
20. Eau de parfum Cinabre, Maria Candida Gentile
An excellent reading of a complex perfumery theme - amber rose. Under a curled wig powdered with scented powders - hair washed with rose water, under musk, vanilla and lipstick - a subtle smell of soap and clean skin: Marie Antoinette, if you remove all the paint from her, smells of youthful, garden freshness.
Price: 2 850 rub.
21. Eau de parfum Rose de Paris, Gustave Eiffel
Why you need Rose de Paris: This is a fresh, rain-washed fruit rose with blackcurrants, made in the fashion of the 1980s - a decade of disheveled garden roses in the style of diptika L'Ombre dans L'Eau. The name promises Paris, but this is how an English garden, laid out in a romantic fashion, should "sound" - as opposed to a French garden, regular, where flowers and trees stretch out in line, like on a parade ground.
Price: 11 674 rub.
22. Magnolia Au Vétiver de Haiti, Chopard
The new perfumery line of the Chopard jewelry brand - Haute Haute Parfumerie Collection, “a collection of high perfumery” - is very good and, contrary to the name, quite ready-to-wear: take it and wear it every day. The best fragrance is Magnolia Au Vétiver de Haiti, a beautiful magnolia soliflor on a green backing. Those who last year caught the flowering of magnolias in the "Apothecary Garden" and, risking falling face down into the loose soil, leaned over the fence to the pubescent buds and white flowers, remember: just like that - with expensive soap, lemon peel, green sweetness and pure vegetable wax - smell of star magnolias.
Price on request
23. Escentric 04, Escentric Molecules
You can have different attitudes to the work of perfumer Geza Shona in the Escentric Molecules format, but nevertheless, this brand is important. Firstly, with the advent of Molecules, the credit of confidence in synthetic perfumery - as opposed to aromas with exclusively natural, “precious”, as brands like to write on them, extracts - has grown considerably. Secondly, from time to time Escentric Molecules really release very decent pieces, and the fourth Escentric of them. This is a wonderful grapefruit, which is in itself a rarity in perfumery, and in addition with special effects: behind the flaming pink ball, like a comet, stretches a long milky trail - a cloud of sandalwood dust.
Price: 7 400 rubles.
24. Eau de parfum Le Cri de la Lumière, Parfum d'Empire
Corsican perfumer Marc-Antoine Corticchiato grows fragrances as thick and dense as the garrigue of his home island - remember, for example, Aziyade or Ambre Russe. But the last work, Le Cri de la Lumière (which in French means "Call of the Light"), was done in a completely different manner: it is a crystal transparency of floral musk, gathered in an icy cloud at a high altitude.
Price: 9 500 rub.
25. Eau de parfum True Love, Ormonde Jayne
True Love is the central part of the London brand's "love" triptych: Sensual Love and Passionate Love are both good, but True Love wins - because the iris wins. He is very convincing here, as always with Ormonde Jayne: even Orris Noir, which, according to Linda Pilkington herself, turned out to be imperfect - at that time she did not yet have a budget for a really high-quality iris absolute, and the perfumer tried to mask the shortcomings of raw materials with a large amount of pepper - still makes a great impression. But True Love appeared in the era of prosperity of the brand, and its iris is exceptionally noble - soft, suede, smoky gray, like the curtain in the Palazzo Vecchio.
Price: 21 550 rub.
26. Soir de Lune, Sisley
An exceptionally honest name: light, almost luminescent flowers - rose, iris, mimosa, lily of the valley - shine in the heart of Lunar Evening, but darkness, as they say in horror films, is inevitable. However, it contains exceptionally pleasant things - buckwheat honey, rather dirty patchouli, shaggy moss with mycelium, crumbling wood.
Price: 9 153 RUB. (50 ml)
27. Eau de toilette Alien Flora Futura, Mugler
If you thought that nothing could be more beautiful than the purple bottle of Alien by Mugler, take a look at its new version. Alien Flora Futura, a soft pink bottle that shimmers like a gem, will definitely want to be put in the most prominent place.
Dominique Ropillon and Jean-Christophe Hérault worked on the new perfume composition - they managed to combine different characters in one scent and used unique notes (how do you like the accord of the rare epiphyllum flower “Queen of the Night”, which only blooms at dusk?). It was this plant that replaced jasmine in the classic Alien, and thanks to it, the new floral-woody perfume sounded simultaneously vanilla and fresh.
Price: 4 500 rub.
28. Eau de parfum Ever Bloom Sakura Art Edition, Shiseido
The perfume novelty from Shiseido is the flanker of the acclaimed Ever Bloom, which has conquered more than one lover of delicate floral aromas. This year the perfume was dedicated to the main event of spring in Japan - the cherry blossom, hence the pink highlights in an elegant crystal bottle, and the composition with cherry tree petals at the base.
This complex note was brought to life by perfumer Olivier Guichard with woody accents, but you won't find the usual complex pyramid in Ever Bloom Sakura Art Edition. The aroma contains two accords that imperceptibly replace each other: in the first - a bouquet of Bulgarian rose, orange blossom and cherry tree, and the second is a combination of greenery, sweet cherry and floral overflows of cyclamen. What can be inspired by a new perfume? At least to dress in a pink chiffon dress and go to Japan, to contemplate the blooming of fragrant trees.
Price: 3 199 rub.
29. Eau de toilette Boss Ma Vie L'Eau, Boss
A new and more feminine version of Boss Ma Vie L'Eau is the scent of flowers, warm spring days and the touch of sunlight on the skin, enclosed in a bottle. The delicate pink perfume immediately evokes associations with the coolness of spring days - when one feels that the warmth is already close. For this, thanks to an interesting composition: among the top notes there is a cactus flower, in the heart - white magnolia, white peony and pink rose (yes, like Svetka Sokolova), and in the base - incredibly feminine white musk and shades of cedar wood.
Price: 5 324 rub. (50 ml)
30. Eau de toilette Magnolia Sensuel, Bvlgari
Feminine, sophisticated, elegant - if these epithets suit you, you will appreciate Bvlgari Eau de Toilette. Magnolia Sensuel is a new fragrance in the Splendida Bvlgari collection, dedicated to the most famous flowers in the history of perfumery - iris, rose, jasmine, and now magnolia.
The perfumer Jacques Cavalier combined the main "heroine" of the composition with fruits, woody notes, spices, getting a truly feminine aroma. At the heart of the perfume is the absolute of orange blossom, jasmine and the essence of Chinese magnolia, among the top notes are the essence of neroli and mandarin, but in the trail there will be an accord of patchouli, musk and vanilla.
Price: 5 520 rub.
