TOP 10 FRAGRANCES

Picking a scent is easy with these enticing options. 1. A romantic floral scent, Amouage Love Tuberose Eau de Parfum (100ml, $499 available from mid-november) has big blooms of tuberose, gardenia and jasmine softened with vanilla and cedarwood. 2. A sparkling bright floral, Guerlain Mon Guerlain Eau de Toilette (50ml, $140) uses mandarin at its heart with lavender, jasmine and vanilla. 3. After the brand’s 20-year hiatus from creating a major women’s fragrance, Dior Perfumer-creator Francois Demachy has produced a scent centred around joy, aptly named Joy by Dior (50ml, $165). “I chose to create an enveloping scent, marked by softness as well as by energy,” says Francois. Inhaling Joy you’ll smell fruit and flowers like rose and mandarin balanced with wood and musk. 4. In the village of San Giuliano on the island of Corsica, the warm summer air drifts along the coast with the scent of tangerine trees. L’artisan Parfumeur Mandarina Corsica Eau de Parfum (100ml, $209) has taken this citrus note and stirred it with burnt sugar to create a candied mandarin that is deliciously irresistible. 5. Launching a trio of scents inspired by three of Gabrielle Chanel’s favourite places, Les Eaux de Chanel (125ml, $195 each) is a collection of three fragrances centred on a feeling of freshness. Paris-deauville has citrus notes that settle into a rose heart and patchouli base; Paris-biarritz is inspired by the ocean with invigorating grapefruit, lily of the valley and white musk; while Paris-venise evokes the journey on the Orient Express from Paris to Venice with subtle citrus, neroli, red berry and warm notes of amber. 6. A mist of the latest Jo Malone Honeysuckle & Davana Cologne (30ml, $98) with its sweet honeysuckle note instantly evokes memories of warm summer holidays and having fun in the sun, which is exactly what master perfumer Anne Flipo set out to create. 7. A lively fruit and floral blend, 100BON Carvi & Jardin de Figuier Eau de Parfum (50ml, $61) blends mandarin, fig, caraway, rose and white cedar with no synthetic ingredients — a natural fragrance perfect for sensitive skin. 8. Capturing native brown boronia in bloom on Tasmania’s Bruny Island, Goldfield & Banks Southern Bloom Perfume (100ml, $249) is a limited-edition floral-woody fragrance blending jasmine, blackcurrant and sandalwood. 9. One of the latest fragrance brands to arrive in Australia, Floral Street brings a range of modern scents like this floral Neon Rose Eau de Parfum (50ml, $109) that smells of rose and jasmine but promises no buds were harmed in the process as the rose aroma was created in a lab. 10. With red rose at the heart of Floris A Rose For... Eau de Parfum (100ml, $349) this oriental is intertwined with warm woody notes of smoky incense, sandalwood, oud and comes with a gold pen for personalising the bottle. For stockist details, see page 138.