What to put under the tree: Cool flavors in beautiful bottles

Give perfume for the holidays - a popular sunsetHowever, in reality this task is more difficult than it seems. Do not forget that the outstanding packaging - a separate story that is important to consider when choosing smells for loved ones. On pre-holiday days, Ksenia Golovanova, a perfume critic, suggests paying attention to scents that will be remembered even before the donated person opens the bottle.

Angel Étoile des Rêves, Mugler

The choice of perfume is a personal matter, but not in the case of this fragrance. If you love Angel, everyone around you will also have to: he has a train like a comet. Well aware of the destructive power of their main hit, Mugler periodically release light versions of the fragrance, each time in new bottles that collectors like to collect. This year, the designers of the brand jumped over their heads: Angel Étoile des Rêves is splashing in a blue glass ball of complex casting, equipped with a vintage-looking pump. Mugler position the fragrance as "night perfume water", the one with which it is pleasant to fall asleep, but to work with it is much more comfortable.

6200 rubles

Essences Insensées Jasmin, Diptyque

Diptyque annually releases one “millesime” fragrance in the Essences Insensées line, entirely made from the aromatic harvest of a given year - usually the previous one. All the aromas of the line are soliflora, that is, compositions built around a single note. In 2015, they released Grasse jasmine, which, respectively, was collected the previous fall. It is very good: dry, like warm summer hay, and almost fruity in its late sweetness. But even better is the bottle - strict art deco, extracted from the archives of the French glass manufactory Waltersperger.

8287 rubles

Nettuno, Mendittorosa

The brand Mendittorosa makes beautiful, unlike anything vials: worth one Sogno Reale with a lid in the form of a sea urchin skeleton. “Neptune”, manually laid out with a mosaic of Venetian glass, is no exception, but the fragrance itself is even more interesting - a steel rose with an aquatic chord, like an interstellar space. Sold in a beautiful wooden box.

22 600 rubles

Marfa, Memo Paris

Most of the town in the Texas desert Martha is famous for three things: the local commune of artists, the brightest stars in America, and the so-called lights of Martha - light balls hanging in the night sky. Now Marfa has her own scent - a loud, vociferous, nuclear tuberose in a big-eyed bottle that will watch you for a long time from the dressing table: Marfa is consumed extremely economically.

15 262 rubles

Iris Fauve, Atelier des Ors

The bottles of the French niche brand Atelier des Ors are like glass snow globes: shook it and a shining whirlwind rises inside. Only instead of glitter, gold particles spin in Iris Fauve, which beautifully highlight the amber liquid (and at the same time do not clog the dispenser, it is checked). Its color gave the name to this warm spicy toffee: translated from French, fauve is “wild”, “predatory”, and also “reddish-gold”.

23 600 rubles

Eau du Soir, Sisley

Eau du Soir is a reference green chypre with a dry gin-like citrus top, an abstract floral heart and a dark, mossy base. It is prescribed in one of the most recognizable bottles in the entire history of perfumery: the color of the glass changes from year to year, but the lid - the golden female head of authorship of the famous Polish sculptor Bronislav Krzysztof - remains the same.

5223 rubles

Arcane, Rouge Bunny Rouge

By the New Year, one of the best fragrances Rouge Bunny Rouge came out in a practical format of solid perfumes and in a new, flagrantly impractical, fantastically beautiful bottle of Czech crystal. The thing is absolutely “estrogenic”, for all lovers of the “Princess Diaries”: perfume is applied with a spoon and leaves a light flickering trace on the skin. The smell, however, for adults is dark, spicy amber in a cloud of incense.

65 000 rubles

Fate Woman, Amouage

Female Fate will easily enter the top three flavors with narcissus - green, animal (in the absolute narcissus there is a distinct tone of barn, manure), warm and fragrant, like steam from summer hay. Among other things, it is a brilliant chypre, enclosed in an equally brilliant bottle - a classic Amuja “house” of pearl color.

25 500 rubles

Les Jardins d'Aladin Arabian Gardens, Nicola Danila Paris

Despite the Arabic mark in the name of the line, Nicola Danila is a French brand: the title “Aladin” is just an anagram of the name of its creator. The exotic flowers and rosettes of palm leaves on the bottle resemble Henri Rousseau’s plant motifs; even a thin dispenser tube looks like a green vine through the glass. Inside, however, the familiar aromas of the distant Russian spring: lime blossom, celery, cucumber, first grass.

10 000 rubles

Tau, Onyrico

A couple of years ago a great book came out - "A Forest Unseen: A Year's Watch in Nature". The author, Pulitzer nominee David George Haskell, watched the life of an old forest in Tennessee for a whole year - using the example of one square meter of forest floor. From this piece of land, taken by the maximum "zoom" of the biologist, a detailed study of the state's ecosystem has grown - and also a whole thicket grows from little Tau.

Not a single detail escapes the perfumer, like Haskell's magnifying glass: here is a fresh resinous scrapping of a juniper branch, here is a shoe imprint in plush mosses, here is a piece of rotten bark - you make “pshik” and continue watching a documentary movie about nature. But even if Tau were not so beautiful in itself, they would still like to have - at least for the sake of this green marble cover.