Wealden Times | WT209 | July 2019 | Summer supplement inside

Beauty
The striking
bottle is
tied at the
neck with
gardener’s
raffia. Wear
with… your
favourite scruffy
gardening gear, or any
summer frock. It’s equally
at home in a herbaceous
border as on a terrace
enjoying lunch outside.
(Put a visit to their Covent Garden
boutique on your perfume pilgrimage
‘map’, after reading this!) Effervescent
bubbliness abounds here in in a sunfilled
creation from rising star perfumer
Jérome Epinette (who has created all
Floral Street’s collection), with sparkling
rhubarb popping the cork on a frothy
gush of gardenia, exotic frangipani and
radiant jasmine Sambac. Wear with…
a sleeveless summer party frock. It’ll
have you wanting to kick off your shoes
and dance barefoot on the lawn.
Floral
Street Electric
Rhubarb £58
for 50ml eau de
parfum
Coach Floral Blush
(£49 for
50ml eau de parfum). Don’t we
all need cheerfulness and optimism,
right now…? That’s precisely what
Coach Floral Blush sets out to deliver,
in a spirit-lifting blend powered by
goji berries. What do they smell like,
in a scent? Juicily tart, sitting alongside
grapefruit, mellowing to an armful
of tea roses in the heart, before a
white woods finale. A playful floral
that celebrates ‘the carefree energy of
summer.’ Wear with… that vintage crêpe
de chine tea dress you most treasure.
BYREDO Sundazed (£110 for 50ml
eau de parfum). This is probably my
favourite yet from cult perfumers
BYREDO. Paying tribute to the era
of free love, Sundazed comes wrapped
in all things sunshine; bright, dazzling
mandarin and Californian lemon. Neroli
shimmers like the twinkle of light on
water while Arabian jasmine cloaks your
skin with its soft, yet opulent, touch.
A dry-down of cotton candy and skin
musks evokes distant memories of
summers spent at beachside funfairs.
Definitely a scent in which to bask
in a state of summer-induced bliss.
Wear with… a sarong, beside a pool or
lounging around on the back terrace.
Perfumer H Petit Grain (£220 for 100ml
eau de parfum). Right at the other end
of the price spectrum from Floral Street
are the fragrances created by perfumer
Lyn Harris, best known as founder
and for many years creator at Miller
Harris, who has a new scent boutique
on Marylebone’s Crawford Street where
she releases seasonal collections. I’ve been
saving pennies to build a mini-wardrobe
of these stunning scents, and for spring/
summer 2019 have my eye (or maybe
nose?) on this gust of citrusy greenness,
zestily powered by Italian bergamot,
Florida orange, and Paraguayan
petitgrain. Aromatic herbs, woods and
musks endow this with a much longer
skin life than most Colognes. If you can
afford to, splash with abandon. (And if
money’s really no object, splash out on
the hand-blown Michael Ruh bottle of
this, which is priced at a cool £450).
But whatever you spend – and
whether you’re matching your
fragrance to a tennis frock, a
Glyndebourne gown, a linen kaftan
or a snuggly pashmina – may you
enjoy a beautifully fragrant summer.
See perfumesociety.org for more of
Jo Fairley’s fragrance reviews
Chanel Les
Eaux de Chanel
Paris-Riviera £99
for 125ml eau
de toilette
Floris
Neroli
Voyage £120 for
100ml eau de
parfum
Floral Street Electric Rhubarb (£58 for
50ml eau de parfum). Floral Street is a
disruptive new fragrance house making
a splash for all sorts of reasons. First off,
they scooped ‘Retailer of the Year’ in the
prestigious Fragrance Foundation Awards
2019 (against very tough
competition). Secondly,
they’re offering
wearable ‘niche’-style
fragrances at very
mainstream prices.
L’Occitane
Herbae Par
L’Occitane £59
for 50ml eau
de parfum
Perfumer H
Petit Grain £220
for 100ml eau
de parfum
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