Lifestyle | Beauty The Evening Standard's journalism is supported by our readers. When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate commission. At this time of year, even Londoners feel the stirrings of the season.
In the gardens there’s a riot of roses and you can be blown away by a blast of jasmine — and in the wild there’s the last of the bluebells, wild roses and honeysuckle. And so it feels the right time to echo the fragrance of spring and summer in our own scent; so here are some of the loveliest floral perfumes to add to your collection. Best travel fragrances to fit into a 100ml airport bag Best summer fragrances for men 2024: Tom Ford, Aesop and more Can this perfume improve your sex life? #perfumebeforebed: consumerist TikTok fad or nighttime essential? This is a lovely simple floral.
In fact, the clean sweet scent derives from hyacinth rather than bluebells, cut with citrus and underpinned with cloves. And the bottle is adorable. Be sure to also try Highgrove Bouquet (£175): the King’s garden in a bottle.
The flower itself is modest but the scent has great charm. This take on one of the best loved florals is sensual, with jasmine and magnolia cut with bergamot and blackcurrant leaf with a cedarwood and musk base. As ever with Aqua di Parma the bottle and cylindrical box, in black, is very chic.
Santa Maria Novella has heavenly colognes, as you’d expect from a house that began life as a Dominican pharmacy. There are lots of lovely flo.