Parfums de Marly Delina La Rosée
Parfums de Marly’s explosive popularity means that someone you know has used a blend of Turkish roses and lychees as their signature scent or is in the process of discovering it. While the original is still addictive, its sparkling counterpart, Delina La Rosée, adds a new charm. Fresh with an emphasis on peony and pear, it is still fruity quality, but a hardened one. If you can imagine rose petals floating in the water, you can understand the direction perfumer Quentin Bisch gave his audience.
Byredo Mixed Emotions
Unforeseen ups and downs have been defining last year, and Byredo’s Ben Gotham thinks 2021 must have a scent that reflects that. Mixed Emotions, a perfume meant to evoke chaotic instability in modern life. The precarious scent is not an easy concept to sell, but the appeal of Mixed Emotions lies in its fearlessness.
Opening with a flurry of black grape wine, it settles down with gentle Ceylon tea and birch wood, growing from flamboyant and almost medicinal to soft and gentle over time. An exact representation of duality, it certainly won’t look like anything you’ve experienced before.
Hermetica Peony Pop
Don’t let the green bottle fool you; Hermeit’s Peony Pop’s sparkling and rosy like a glass of rose, dedicated to its perennial wines with its positive energy and fragrance.
Every year, visitors flock to the Luoyang Peony Festival in China’s southwestern Henan province to admire the many fragrant gardens with pink, red and white flowers. If you can’t book tickets, a Peony Pop series will give you a hint of what you’re missing out on. The vibrant flower takes center stage, but the raspberries and the osmanthus round out the notes and add a hint of sweetness.
Veronique Gabai Le Point G
While tempting to pack all the more seductive, deeper scents until fall arrives, Veronique Gabai’s Le Point G challenges the notion that summer scents need to be light and unobtrusive. Literally, Gabai’s boldly named scent is meant to create a climax. The notes are layered so that drying reveals new aspects as time goes by, shifting from rose and iris scent blended with deep musk for a few hours for an experience like a slow seduction.
Dior Lucky
If you believe in lucky jewels, how important they are, but Dior’s lily tribute item, Lucky, is even better when you know the story behind its creation. While bringing New Look into women’s lives and revolutionizing fashion, Christian Dior relied on tarot cards, ritual and the habit of sewing a piece of muguet into each dress to bring good luck to the wearer. In honor of the house’s founder, perfumer François Demachy envisioned the scent of a flower stitched into silk. From there came a fresh gem that captures the essence of one of the most beautiful flowers around.