Tried & Tested: This Feel-Good Spring Scent Is A Mood-Changer (And Under €30) - The Gloss Magazine

Tried & Tested: This Feel-Good Spring Scent Is A Mood-Changer (And Under €30)

Three brilliant new scents to brighten your day …

Main featured image: Stella McCartney AW22.

NATURAL ENERGY

If you’re after an uplifting spring scent that doesn’t cost a fortune, Clarins’ Eau Dynamisante is an eternal classic – it’s one of those scents you forget about for a while, and then smell it and remember just how good it is, so fresh, herbal, bright and energising. So we sat up and took notice when we spotted this new Eau Extraordinaire Treatment Fragrance (from €29, www.clarins.ie). Is it as good as ED? It’s a bright and botanical scent with benefits – a truck-load of plant oils and extracts, such as leaf of life and vitamin C-rich acerola fruit, mean it really does give you a lift. It’s as much about wellbeing as smelling great. It smells fruity, zesty and sunny, with an orangey, almost coconutty warmth that sings of suntans without being overly sweet. There’s a body cream too, with organic shea butter and hazelnut oil. All packaging is recyclable, too. At stockists nationwide, stores and pharmacies.

ICY FLORAL

A good iris-based perfume is perfect for this time of year – apt for colder rainy days, yet lightly optimistic and spring-like too. This latest Prada Infusion d’Iris eau de parfum is a cool bright take on one of perfumery’s most intriguing ingredients; it has that transparent air that’s so popular in Escentric Molecules scents (try their M+Iris for another great take). This Prada is perfect for those who aren’t big on blowsy florals, but want something cleanly pretty, sophisticated and modern for spring. From €80.50 at www.theloop.ie

HELLO SUNSHINE

I’m wearing a scent called Naples a lot at the moment – it’s part of Gallivant’s collection of travel-inspired perfumes. A discovery set of 10 is £30stg, so you can experience all the cities, from Berlin to Istanbul. Naples – which keeps selling out – is a beautiful citrus with a smooth woody base and intriguing hits of incense and patchouli, and composed by a star Italian perfumer, Luca Maffei, who’s based in Milan. Gallivant are a small artisan perfumer based in the UK (but shipping to the EU from Belgium). And the perfumes are beautifully individual and distinctive. Tel Aviv was the top-seller here in Ireland past year, and no wonder – it’s a gorgeous creamy jasmine scent with clementine to make it sing and sandalwood and musks to make it linger and seduce. We can’t wait to smell their new perfume, launching mid-May, which focusses on amber. From £65stg; www.gallivant-perfumes.com

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