Customize Consent Preferences

We use cookies to help you navigate efficiently and perform certain functions. You will find detailed information about all cookies under each consent category below.

The cookies that are categorized as "Necessary" are stored on your browser as they are essential for enabling the basic functionalities of the site. ... 

Always Active

Necessary cookies are required to enable the basic features of this site, such as providing secure log-in or adjusting your consent preferences. These cookies do not store any personally identifiable data.

No cookies to display.

Functional cookies help perform certain functionalities like sharing the content of the website on social media platforms, collecting feedback, and other third-party features.

No cookies to display.

Analytical cookies are used to understand how visitors interact with the website. These cookies help provide information on metrics such as the number of visitors, bounce rate, traffic source, etc.

No cookies to display.

Performance cookies are used to understand and analyze the key performance indexes of the website which helps in delivering a better user experience for the visitors.

No cookies to display.

Advertisement cookies are used to provide visitors with customized advertisements based on the pages you visited previously and to analyze the effectiveness of the ad campaigns.

No cookies to display.

It’s going to be a summer of love. Or so they keep telling us. Putting aside whether this is a prediction based in anything vaguely related to reality or simply a case of wishful thinking, I devoted a recent episode of Love At First Scent to the subject of sultry scents for summer evenings: compositions that display sparkling effervescence in their top notes, but also know how to get dangerously funky in their base. To watch the video, please click here: Top 10 best perfumes for the sultry summer of 2021. Or, for the complete list of fragrances featured in the broadcast, keep reading.

Chanel Le Lion De Chanel 6:30
Frederic Malle Cologne Indelebile 11:00
Parfum D’Empire Fougere Bengale 15:30
Bohoboco Geranium Balsamic Note 20:15
Tom Ford Soleil Brulant 25:00
Penhaligon’s Orange Blossom 30:15
Cartier La Panthere parfum 35:30
Etat Libre D’Orange Une Amourette 40:30
Francesca Bianchi Etruscan Water 44:30
Serge Lutens Fils De Joie 50:10

Here’s to love and to summer,

Persolaise

[Samples of the Chanel, Frederic Malle, Bohoboco, Tom Ford, Cartier, Etat Libre D’Orange and Serge Lutens provided by the brands for review purposes; the remainder were obtained by me for my personal collection.]


If you’ve enjoyed this post, please consider supporting my work
by ‘buying me a coffee’ using the panel below.

Thanks very much indeed.

Best perfumes for summer 2021, selected by award-winning critic Persolaise
image: Chanel

Discover more from

Subscribe to get the latest posts sent to your email.

I love hearing from my readers, so please feel free to write a comment or ask a question.