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In Part 1 of our best Spring Fragrances reviews,  we wrote that spring is when our spirits soar and we watch all things bare and brown turn into an explosion of colors. Lately, many of us are spending most of our time in our homes. Spraying our favorite spring fragrances… brings the magic of the outdoors,  indoors.

photo by Elena

Olibere Parfums Le Jardin d’Amelie by Luca Maffei (2019): inspired by the movie Amelie) is a smiling, witty, cheerful fragrance with an unmistakable French flair of joi de vivre and poetic beauty of enjoying life’s small pleasures: soft petals and tender juices of spring captured in a bottle. This light and fresh Eau de parfum opens with a lovely rhubarb & raspberry fizzy-pink, refreshing cocktail that becomes captivating with the warmth of floral notes, like petals bathing in sunshine. The joyful lightness lingers on your skin all the way to the drydown, with soft ambers and tender power of musks. The life force of spring is strong and inevitable yet tender and gracefully soft, and Le Jardin d’Amelie is a sweet breath of charming, positive femininity.

Notes: bergamot, rhubarb, raspberry, pink pepper, rose, honeysuckle, violet, white woods, amber, musk.

–Elena Cvjetkovic, Editor and Author of The Plum Girl

Gail’s Spring Bearded Iris with Tiny Green Spider. Photo by Gail Gross ©

2019 Hedonist Iris Absolute by Viktoria Minya is a smooth, very round, elegantly soft presentation of iris. From the first breath, a suggestion of cocoa beans add a sweet warmth, like late spring sunshine perhaps, to the fresh scent of the flower, and my most worn lately of spring fragrance. The powdery sensuality of iris is magnified by sueded leather, balsamic amber and ripe, rich vanilla, creating a fascinating olfactory image of the seductive heart of the bloom.

Notes:  Iris, leather, cocoa beans, vanilla, amber, woods.

–Gail Gross, Sr. Editor

  © Zany Mayd

Casamorati 1888 Fiore d’Ulivo (Angeline Leporini) 2009: I spent my favorite spring in Morocco. Sense snapshots of different atmospheres have nestled in my brain more than a rundown of things I did. Most lovely is the drowsy memory of waking up to morning sunlight softened by gauzy curtains stirring from a breeze. I opened my eyes to the scents of the blooming olive and lemon trees outside my window. The first time I sprayed Fiore d’Ulivo it transported me right back to that moment. The perfume gives me a smile of easy contentment. The florals are playful and soft, the lemon billowy, and underneath it all is a downy, lightweight duvet of musk and amber. It is the only perfume in my collection that I wear exclusively in the spring. Like my memories from Morocco, Fiore d’Ulivo is an atmosphere more than a list of notes. – Marianne Butler, Sr. Contributor

Photo by Malcom Liepke

Anatole Lebreton L’Eau Scandaleuse (Anatole Lebreton): When the ground dampens and sap is rising, Anatole Lebreton’s smouldering, smeared lipstick vixen L’Eau Scandaleuse will make you feel spring has not so much sprung as pounced. This is no well-bred, breezy floral, but a gorgeous, rutting female stud: creamy tuberose and sultry ylang wrapped in nothing but a black leather trench. Topped with an elegant, Mitsouko-like peach note and a spray of bergamot, there’s tipped cigarette as, green fronds, and just the right touch of skank. In the hands of anyone else L’Eau Scandaleuse could have been a blowsy, over-the-top 80s mashup, but Lebreton is a wondrous artist who weaves the most unexpected notes into shimmering loveliness. Classy-trashy, sensual, and swooningly beautiful, L’Eau Scandaleuse is my favourite of a truly wonderful line… especially in spring.

Notes: Bergamot, peach, davana, tuberose, ylang ylang, leather, castoreum, Cypriol Nagarmotha, oakmoss.

– Lauryn Beer, Senior Editor

Taking off. Photo, creative direction and digital editing by @a_nose_knows for Carner Barcelona

Carner Barcelona Bo-Bo (2019): for as far as I can remember, spring was made official by one of two things: either bucking like a goat (when you’re a kid), or taking your jacket off. The first toothy sun of the season would be enough to undress, and when we did we felt imponderable and vulnerable; slumbery; alive. We’d stare into the blinding light, raw and fresh like after a molting. Bo-Bo reminds me of that electric, tender, painful zest, as it combines the coolness of astringent fruit and green flowers with the softness of skin notes lying naked beneath.

Notes: Bergamot, Neroli, Cassis, Mandarin, Jasmine, Vetiver, Musk, Lily of the valley

– dana sandu, Editor

Photo by Tim Walker©

Gardener’s Glove (Diane St. Clair of St. Clair Scents) 2018:  I grew up in a 2 bedroom basement apartment in Brooklyn. My dad was very young when I was born and worked two jobs to put himself through college and support a family. His day job was selling fruits and vegetables at a local grocery.  There was always fresh produce in our lives… and the smell of linden during the summer, the trees that bloomed seemingly out of concrete. I remember visiting cousins on Long Island when I was 5 or 6 and my aunt and uncle had (what seemed) a large garden where they grew all sorts of things… I remember most the tomatoes, the berries, the roses and the bright flowers.  My sister and I would sit in the dirt and touch and smell everything; sunlight on freshly tilled soil, the strange fuzziness of the tomato leaves whose scent rubbed off on our fingers, the perfume of  blooms and and flowers I didn’t know  the names for. Next to the hedge of roses there was a well-worn leather glove that smelled faintly of my aunt’s perfume, Patou Joy. We pleaded and she laughed; we took the glove home. My sister and I took turns wearing it and played “gardener” on the stoop.  Diane St. Clair’s Gardner’s Glove is an olfactory photograph of a time when everything was possible.

Notes: Meyer Lemon, Tomato Leaf Absolute, Galbanum, Bergamot, Jasmine Sambac Absolute, Jasmine Organic Extract, Apricot, Black Currant Bud Absolute, Linden Blossom, Lily, Rose Absolute, Leather, Saffron, Patchouli, Ambers, Vetiver, Benzoin Resin, Castoreum, Fir Needle

–Michelyn Camen, Editor-In-Chief

1894 Spirit Of Spring – Alphonse Mucha

For our Best Spring Fragrances Draw

EU, USA or Canada: Thanks to the generosity of Parfums Viktoria Minya we have a draw for the Viktoria Minya Hedonist Absolute Sample Kit

EU and USA: with love from Marjorie Olibere for 14ml of Olibere Parfums Le Jardin d’Amelie

USA Only: 50 ml tester of Carner Barcelona BoBo (courtesy of Europerfumes)

USA Only:  With gratitude to Diane St. Clair for 30ml of Gardener’s Glove (an Art and Olfaction Finalist 2019)

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