Spring's latest scents are beautifully bottled.
1. Miss Dior Cherie Blooming Bouquet 50ml eau de toilette spray, $148
A girly, flirty, floral choice with enough sparkle to avoid the sickly edge of many sweeter fruit-tinged scents. Peonies bring delicacy to the mix as the little bow does to the bottle. Look closely for designer detail, with Dior's favourite houndstooth check pattern etched into the glass of the base.
2. Narciso Rodriguez Essence in Color 50ml eau de parfum $175
A stunning purple bottle for Essence and For Her is rehoused in fuchsia in these limited edition In Color releases, which also remix the scents with new nuanced notes. Narciso Rodriguez got the idea when he was cutting out coloured paper dolls for fun one night, leading to a brighter clothes collection and these very covetable designer bottles. "I love colour when it's pure ... pure colour elicits profound emotions and memories and that's what fragrance should be about," he says. Essence in Color appeals to me more than the original version in the silver flacon, but fans of that won't find - as you do with some reworked scents - anything too dissimilar. It's like trying on a favourite dress shape in a new shade.
