This week’s latest launches are dazzling us with their fabulous flacons and fantastic fragrances. We’ve got Rose, Blossom and Violet Ida, and that’s just for starters. We’re spoilt for choice and you will be too!
CHOPARD
LA ROSE DE CAROLINE
On present showing, we predict that it will be roses, roses all the way in 2019. A rare and velvety Bulgarian rose essential oil – pricier than gold – thrums at the heart of Alberto Morillas’s ultra-luxe creation for his friend, Chopard Artistic Director Caroline Scheufele (whose family founded the jewellery house), alongside Grasse rose de Mai, spiced by cardamom and cinnamon, accented by patchouli, cedar, cypriol and ultimately sweetened by Madagascan vanilla. Petal-perfect
£495 for 100ml eau de parfum
harrods.com
JIMMY CHOO
BLOSSOM SPECIAL EDITION
Jimmy Choo never fails to put a smile on our faces – and with Blossom’s Special Edition he’s done it all over again. A cocktail of mandarin, crispy pear, bergamot and a fruity hibiscus flower feels almost bubblegum-like, with this combination of lightly fruity notes posed against a heart of dewy lily of the valley and an aqueous pink freesia. Sparkling, effervescent and above all, fun. Wear it with your glad rags – and your best shoes.
£48 for 60ml eau de parfum
debenhams.com
MILLER HARRIS
VIOLET IDA
Brighton Rock’s big-hearted Ida Arnold is the muse for this proper-handbag, lipstick-kissed, buxom embrace of a scent. Think glamorously disordered dressing tables and delightfully déshabillé dames up to no good (but with best of intentions) amidst a powdery orris, carrot oil and heliotrope affair. The amber-rich and vanilla-infused dry down is something to snuggle up to and savour for simply hours, and we predict this will be a huge hit…
£75 for 50ml eau de parfum
millerharris.com
MODERNIST
GEIST
Self-taught perfumer John Evans says: ‘I spent a lot of time remixing the head notes, trying to find the citrus pitch I wanted’ – and what a triumph this is. Geist isn’t just-peeled zest – there are elements of wake-me-up with mandarin, lemon, both sweet and bitter orange. But it’s mostly a silvery, seamless blend of honeysuckle, musk and gentle amber – a transformative fragrance that whispers around you all day, catching you off guard with radiant tenderness.
£150 for 50ml eau de parfum
modernistfragrance
MUGLER
ALIEN FUSION MAN
Three vibrations fuse in this stunning sapphire glass flacon to create an ‘olfactory inferno’, as Mugler put it. First, the Tumultuous Vibration, with ginger, cinnamon and woodiness. Next, the Sophisticated Vibration, suffused with carnal osmanthus flower, intensified by animalic Ambrée leather. And as it reaches its explosive finale, Alien Man Fusion offers up an Electrifying Vibration, addictively overdosing smoked beechwood, alongside green coffee and ‘vegetal inflections’. Be prepared for the earth to move.
From £47 for 50ml eau de toilette
mugler.co.uk
