A citrus-herbal aroma, collected from a variety of greens - mint, shiso, bamboo and eucalyptus, sea vanilla with incense and wood chips in a strong brine of waves and other summer aromas in a new material by perfume critic Ksenia Golovanova.
Eau de toilette My Happy Lily on the Beach, Clinique
This has never happened before, and here it is again: Clinique has released six summer fragrances that can be worn individually or mixed on the skin in any combination. Here are all the usual suspects - cool aquatic, silky peony with a rose, jasmine tea and the inevitable, but no less charming "tropical" cocktail with the scent of sunscreen milk, Lily on the Beach. Younger sister of Bronze Goddess in a comfortable travel spray.
$ 22 for 15 ml, Clinique Online Store
Eau de toilette Gucci Bloom Acqua di Fiori, Gucci
Flower Water is the first flanker of last year's Gucci Bloom, very successful. And bold: usually the perfumery mainstream avoids greens, as a child avoids vegetables, since green scents do not enjoy popular love; forbs are the lot of a niche. Perfumer Alberto Morillas, however, puts the greenest thing in the world in Flower Water - a galbanum accord, bitter and biting, and connects it with the classic Gucci Bloom floral block through a green lily of the valley. Another beautiful work of the updated Gucci under the direction of Alessandro Michele.
From 4 761 rub. for 50 ml, L'Etoile stores
Eau de parfum Smeraldo, Sylvaine Delacourte
Sylvain Delacourt worked for Guerlain for many years, and now she carries her own brand to exhibitions. They accept her warmly: this is a perfume of a healthy person, which, by the way, could have been produced by the former employer Delacourt, if he had not been carried away by the dull franchise La Petite Robe Noire. The brand's new vanilla collection has not yet been brought to Russia, and the first, musky, is on the shelves; the summer of the five "fluffy" scents is the green Smeraldo, which smells of sticky buds and the fluff of flowering trees.
From 8 080 rub. for 100 ml, Rive Gauche stores
Eau de parfum Poème de Sagano, Ella K
Sagano is a bamboo grove in Kyoto Prefecture, planted in the 14th century by the Japanese poet, monk and master of garden art Muso Soseki. Most of Soseki's works are included in the official list of "tokubetsu-meisho", that is, "especially beautiful places", and are distinguished by their own unique style: peace, silence and soft emerald light that envelops all objects in the garden. With the same delicate, dreamy aesthetic, Poème de Sagano is a citrus herbal scent made from a variety of greens - mint, shiso, bamboo and eucalyptus.
19,000 RUB for 70 ml, TSUM
Eau de parfum Rose Seljuke, Chopard
Here is perhaps the best rose of this summer, as well as a serious claim for the main pink scent of the year (we wrote about other rose fragrances here). Rose Seljuke is part of the new Gardens of Paradise collection, dedicated to the gardens of the East, both existing and mythical: the white-flowered Jasmin Moghol takes you to the palace gardens of Jaipur, the orange Mauresque is inspired by secluded Moorish patios, the honey Miel d'Arabie is a trip to an oasis in the middle of the Arabian desert. And Rose Seljuke is both fantasy and hyperrealism at the same time: the dream of the Hanging Gardens of Babylon by perfumer Morillas takes the form of a reliable portrait of a burgundy rose slightly wilted in the Babylonian heat.
20 800 RUB for 100 ml, TSUM
Eau de parfum Armani Privé Bleu Turquoise, Giorgio Armani
By the summer, Armani Privé had a couple of Indian fragrances, Bleu Turquoise and Bleu Lazuli. Especially good is "Turquoise" - sea vanilla with incense and wood chips in a strong brine of waves. From the very beginning to the end, incense, sea salt and ozone are louder than the rest - a few - instruments. Moreover, nothing happens to them: the aroma sounds deliberately monotonous and meditative, like the tide of the sea. Waves for a long time - “Turquoise” lasts for 10-12 hours on the skin - roll over one after another, but if this is monotony, then it is absolutely mesmerizing.
From 18 540 rub. for 100 ml, Rive Gauche stores
Eau de parfum Nylaia, Bvlgari
In June, the Le Gemme collection was replenished with three new fragrances: Veridia emerald, Rubinia ruby and Nylaia sapphire (we wrote about other precious fragrances here). The latter is iris, which in the perfumery palette always works with blue paint, probably due to the persistent association with its own flowers, although dried rhizomes rather than them are used in the production of perfumes. There are irises cold and melancholic, there are pronouncedly cosmetic ones - powdery, but the balance of Nylaia is ideal, like the Girl on the Ball: silky coolness and balsamic warmth, freshness and sweetness in it equally.
23,760 p. for 100 ml, TSUM
