I want the smell of suburban gardens to stay with me all day long. Honeysuckle, apple blossom, jasmine, lilac… all the flowers, all at once, now. My new favourite floral scent for summer is Miller Harris’s delicate Rose Silence (£65, millerharris.com) which is clean and young with hints of mandarin under the rose. It smells of a hundred childhood memories. MiN New York’s new fragrance Botanist (£200, Liberty) is more exclusive (read: expensive), but it is similarly thrilling, with its delicate garden floweriness – peonies, roses, lily of the valley – undercut with a pleasing hint of grapefruit and recently dug dirt. And the glory of florals is they range from pretty rose scents all the way down to an earthier darkness. You’re sure to find one you love.
Alternatively
Roja Parfums in Beguiled £345, selfridges.com MiN New York in Botanist £200, liberty.co.uk Fresh Honeysuckle £70, fresh.com Diptyque in Florabellio £58, diptyqueparis.co.uk Tom Daxon in Crushing Bloom £105, tomdaxon.com Burberry Brit Rhythm £69, burberry.com
