We don’t know about you, but we think warmer weather demands simpler pleasures. When the sun is out, we want a streamlined, refreshing fragrance that enhances our skin without dominating. But simple and light doesn’t have to mean basic and boring!
Read on to discover our picks for minimalist fragrances to keep you breezily, but beautifully, scented this summertime.
Escentric Molecules
Bright, happy, Mediterranean air, held to the skin with the abstract fluffy radiance of the classic aroma molecule Cashmeran. Like an ozone layer of cerulean blue, this fragrance is fascinating enough to get lost in but easy enough to spray it on and lose yourself in summer.
D.S. & Durga
A summer scent of a different sort – a lifelike, creamy, refreshing sandalwood glowing with afternoon warmth and magnetic simplicity. A perfume with the frank, hypnotic quality of a world-class essential oil, with a subliminal hint of lakeside beach day from its “coconut musc”, balsam fir and ambergris drydown.
Matiere Premiere
This light beam of Italian citron oil is sparkling citrus perfection. Matiere Premiere’s fragrances are 85-92% natural, and each build streamlined colour fields of scent around a single world-class raw material. Even their bottles are a minimalist’s dream!
Parfum d’Empire
A smooth, soothing aura of clean earth carrying the dulcet tones of freshly crushed Corsican grape skins. Not sweet, juicy, or sticky in the slightest, this one-of-a-kind atmospheric scent bottles the cool shade of rustic French cellars and the precious aromas of its sun-ripened bounty aging in oak.
A crowd-pleasing beauty whose deceptive simplicity hides a canny nod to naive romance, this fragrance has the skills to get noticed and leverage the power of pretty.
Heeley Parfums
Perfumer James Heeley is the king of chic minimalism. While his brand is full of breezy, quietly romantic masterpieces, this might be his most iconic. Sea water on skin, distilled simply with photographic detail, botanical vibrancy and the transparency of clean water. Often imitated, rarely equalled.
