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Best spring perfumes to try this season

As the days start to get longer, and the sun gets a little brighter, we’ve all switched our winter wear with some light and cosy outfits. And when it comes to fragrance, spritzing on a light, fresh, and sweet floral fragrance just feels right.

Florals are without a doubt the fragrance of the season. And if you’re in the market for a new scent, the world’s top perfumers have spent all winter pairing your favourite florals like rose, jasmine, and gardenia with spicy and woodsy notes to create spring 2021’s most exciting fragrances. To help you narrow down some of your options and make it less overwhelming, we’ve pulled our favourite fragrances of the year so far, including picks from new brands too. We are sure you’ll be able to find the right fragrance for you as they are big on personality and filled with new ideas, they represent the season’s optimistic sense of promise and we are sure you’ll fall in love with them.

Cartier Declaration Haute Fraicheur Eau de Toilette

You probably associate Cartier with jewellery, so it only makes sense that the brand’s latest fragrance, Declaration Haute Fraicheur, sparkles like its famous gems and also feels like diamonds. Like entering a forest full of brilliant botanical scents, spraying on this eau de toilette means wrapping yourself in notes of citrus, cardamom, cedarwood, and crumpled leaves. Its earthiness doesn’t stop it from feeling especially fresh.

Bath & Body Works White T-Shirt Fine Fragrance Mist

It may seem redundant to wear Bath & Body Works White T-Shirt Fine Fragrance Mist with your favourite white T-shirt, but we can’t think of a better fashion and fragrance pairing as they are the perfect match. In fact, this mist’s notes of crisp pear, lavender, clean musk, sandalwood, and unmistakeable cottony vibes can make any outfit feel as effortlessly chic as a white tee. This will definitely be your go-to casual fragrance all the way through summer.

Dior Lucky

If you believe in good luck charms and trinkets, their importance requires no explanation, but Dior’s Lucky, is even better once you know the story behind its creation. While bringing the new scent into women’s lives and revolutionising fashion, Christian Dior relied on tarot cards, rituals, and a habit of stitching a piece of Muguet into each dress to bring the wearer good fortune. To honour the house’s founder, perfumer François Demachy envisioned the scent of the flower sewn into silk and came up with a fresh gem that captures the essence of one of the most beautiful flowers around and hence came this perfume.

Gucci Flora Lavender Gorgeous Gardenia Eau de Toilette

This is a delicious potion of joy built around the gardenia flower blended with solar jasmine absolute, cheerful pear blossom accord, and sweet brown sugar accord. It is a signature floral scent for all free-spirited women full of positive energy. The best thing about this perfume is that its floral but not heady or strong, and articulates beautifully against other scents. It is paired with red berries and pear for a fantastically fruity but eminently sophisticated overture.

Tom Ford Rose de Chine Eau de Parfum

Rose de Chine by Tom Ford is an Amber Floral fragrance for women and men. This is a new fragrance. Rose de Chine was launched in 2022. Rose de Chine weaves Chinese golden peony into layer upon layer of rose notes. If you happen to detect a hint of smokiness, that would be the wisp of myrrh Tom Ford found room for in this irresistible floral masterpiece. It has a more citrusy floral quality to it for the first half-hour to an hour before being mostly a sweet, somewhat jammy rose and peony mix. In the middle, there was a sharper, clean musk that coupled with the rose but this was smoothed out about two hours in. The dry-down was slightly sweet and more resinous over a bed of roses. So if you got this perfume you’re surely in for a ride of multiple scents.