AMONG the recent perfume launches Glass is heartened to see brands – new and old – making a serious and impressive commitment to sustainability as well as creating some beautiful and very wearable fragrances.
Aemium, Nova Espero
Aemium, Nova Espero
Launched in 2020, French unisex brand, Aemium, has the bold mission to use less synthetic fragrances, less packaging and less waste, while making sure all ingredients are from natural origins as much as possible. The complex and lush Nova Espero evokes a compelling sense of intrigue and mystery and is composed of lemon, sage and vanilla.
£125, (1301 HKD), 100ML, EDP
Available at Selfridges.com
BDK Parfums Paris, Velvet Tonka
BDK Parfums Paris, Velvet Tonka
BDK Parfums Paris is a French brand with Moroccan roots, and their Velvet Tonka is a perfect winter scent. With warming vanilla and tonka bean notes accompanied with smouldering smokey amyris and amber wood with orange blossom and almond accents adding a slightly brisk feel.
£170, 100ML, EDP
Available at Selfridges.com
Christian Louboutin, Loubicharme Intense
Christian Louboutin, Loubicharme Intense
Housed in the most glamorously OTT bottle, the bottle cap itself (Christian Louboutin being fascinated by them) having a scarab motif with feathers – the bottle made of Louboutin-red glass – Loubicharme Intense is a compellingly sweet succulent powdery rose created by leading perfumer Christophe Raynaud. With notes of incense, rose and geranium and patchouli.
£250, 90ml, EDP Intense
Available at Harrods.com
La Perla, Signature
La Perla, Signature
Signature is beautiful, sophisticated and complex – a very feminine perfume – as you might expect being as it is inspired by La Perla’s lingerie. A perfect marriage of luxury and preserving the environment, the perfume is made of sustainable ingredients and encased in a refillable bottle, made of recycled and recyclable materials. This lovely scent has top notes of citruses, violet leaves, mandarin orange and neroli; jasmine sambac and nectarine at the heart with a base of vetiver and cedar.
£118, 90ml, EDP
Available at Beauty by la Perla
Carine Roitfeld, 7 Lovers – Vladimir
Carine Roitfeld, 7 Lovers – Vladimir
The legendary editor Carine Roitfeld has debuted a fabulous perfume collection, entitled 7 Lovers. And each fragrance is inspired by her life and loves. Vladimir – being the name of her son no less – celebrates her Slavic background as well as St. Petersburg, in a delicious bouquet of grapefruit, bergamot, sage infused with intoxicating incense, frankincense, leather and amber.
£190, 90ML, EDP
Available at Harrods
Guerlain, Santal Pao Rosa
Guerlain, Santal Pao Rosa
From the legendary perfume house’s fine fragrance L’Art & La Matière collection Santal Pao Rosa borrows its name from Guerlain’s heritage, with Pao Rosa being the name of a fragrance composed by Aimé Guerlain (the son of the founder of Guerlain) in 1877 and evoking an encounter between wood and rose.
This modern expression, created by leading perfumer Delphine Jelk, is an intriguing subtle and classy delicate floral-spicy scent.
£280, 100ML, EDP
Available from Guerlain
Cloon Keen, Bel Étage
Cloon Keen, Bel Étage
By the Irish perfume company based in Galway Bay, Bel Étage is named after the gracious light saturated interiors found in Dublin’s Georgian buildings and is a heavenly concoction opening with fresh yet warm citrus notes, set against deeper moss and vetiver accents. This is a very more-ish nuzzle-able scent. Gorgeous.
£120, 100 ml, EDP
Available at Les Senteurs
Merchant of Venice, Vinegia 21
Merchant of Venice, Vinegia 21
Created to celebrate the 1600th anniversary of Venice no less, by the Italian luxury company Merchant of Venice, Vinegia 21, part of the Murano Exclusive Collection is housed in the most beautiful and collectable Murano glass bottle.
Vinegia 21 explores the richness of magnificent brocades and velvets with rich, intoxicating spicy and woody accents such as cinnamon, praline and saffron; akigalawood, agarwood and patchouli in the heart and vanilla, sandalwood, incense and patchouli giving a warming base.
£250, 100ML EDP
Available at Harrods
Ormonde Jayne, Evernia
Ormonde Jayne, Evernia
Evernia is Latin for oakmoss (a core perfume note) and leading luxury British fragrance house Ormonde Jayne’s latest perfume is a modern interpretation of this classic ingredient.
Wrapped in soft flowers likevlily of the valley, freesia, jasmine, violet and Moroccan rose, with pink pepper (an Ormonde Jayne signature scent) to enliven, and oakmoss, cashmeran, sandalwood, musk and opoponax giving a rich base. Evernia is flawless and alluring.
£110, 50ML, EDP
Available from Ormonde Jayne
by Caroline Simpson