Hi Dry Downers! Welcome to a new edition of The Six, in which we each pick three perfumes around a theme. This month, we are leaning into summer energy with a letter about tropical scents, perfumes that evoke night-blooming florals and the nocturnal mammals that love them, fragrances that smell like slushy blue cocktails with a tiny umbrella teetering on the rim. Tropical notes — coconut, banana, tiare, grapefruit, guava, frangipani, pineapple — tend to be heady and boozy and rich, which is why they work best in the summer, when the heat shimmers off your body and carries the sweet fumes with it. Tropicals are different than aquatic scents — those scents that smell both like the ocean or like the sunblock that you wear on the beach — this is an attempt to smell less like the sea, and more like a Seabreeze. Tropicals are meant to stir memories — of vacations past, of places you’ve never been, of childhood and sticky Sno-cone fingers. Go ahead, go coconuts. xox R and H
The Dry Down Six: Tropicals
The Dry Down Six: Tropicals
The Dry Down Six: Tropicals
Hi Dry Downers! Welcome to a new edition of The Six, in which we each pick three perfumes around a theme. This month, we are leaning into summer energy with a letter about tropical scents, perfumes that evoke night-blooming florals and the nocturnal mammals that love them, fragrances that smell like slushy blue cocktails with a tiny umbrella teetering on the rim. Tropical notes — coconut, banana, tiare, grapefruit, guava, frangipani, pineapple — tend to be heady and boozy and rich, which is why they work best in the summer, when the heat shimmers off your body and carries the sweet fumes with it. Tropicals are different than aquatic scents — those scents that smell both like the ocean or like the sunblock that you wear on the beach — this is an attempt to smell less like the sea, and more like a Seabreeze. Tropicals are meant to stir memories — of vacations past, of places you’ve never been, of childhood and sticky Sno-cone fingers. Go ahead, go coconuts. xox R and H