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Glossier You
Eau de Parfum
£62
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hen Glossier released its debut perfume, You, back in 2017 it set the fragrance world on fire. This isn’t the sort of thing that usually happens with soft, subtle skin-like scents. In a time when super-luxe, muted, woody fragrances like Le Labo Santal 33 were reigning supreme, Glossier delivered something
truly unique—a sweet, skin-enhancing scent that becomes a part of, well, you.
The arrival of Glossier You sparked a frenzy. Suddenly, everybody who was anybody wanted in on the new scent du jour. Seven years on, even when the hype around Glossier as a brand has at times dwindled, the love for You has remained greater than ever. Beauty editors consider it to be one of the most wearable and universally-adored perfumes in existence, fans of the brand buy bottle after bottle to cement its place as one of the most popular perfumes of our times and, critically, no fragrance house since has managed to do what You does—blur the lines between skin and perfume to the point of total indistinction.
Glossier You Doux
NOTES
Sweet violet
Powdery, sweet and airy floral notes swirl on the skin.
Frankincense
Resinous and spicy, this note adds
serious depth.
It’s true what they say, Glossier You smells unlike anything else around. It starts off spicy and somewhat biting on the nose, like sugar-coated black peppercorns, but very soon it develops into something almost unbelievably soft, creamy and very subtly floral. Above all though, You smells unmistakably clean and fresh—like warm skin that has just emerged from an indulgent, sudsy, rose-petalled bubble bath and has been swaddled in towels that are fresh out of the dryer.
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NOTES
Ambrette seeds
IRIS
Light and breezy, this powdered floral is incredibly comforting.
PINK PEPPER
A bright, sparkling, spicy scent that tickles the nose.
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Glossier You
PALO SANTO
A dry, woody sort of smoke that remains light and fresh.
You’s older, more mature and enviously chic sister, You Doux is a fresh, woody, powdery delight. It packs a heavier punch but maintains its skin-like softness with a drier, sandier, sweet edge. It still embodies all of that familiar warmth, but it feels lived-in and more raw—as though you have been wearing it all day and the scent has absorbed its surroundings. It is like spending an evening with friends sat around a campfire in Joshua Tree, heading back inside at the end of the night and submerging yourself in the tub.
WORDS: SHANNON LAWLOR
Glossier You Rêve
NOTES
Toasted almond
Warming, nutty and comfortingly moreish.
Plum butter
Sweet and fruity, this note brings a dark, sticky, juicy finish.
Buttercream
Delivers a milky, sweet and vanilla-like element
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PHOTOGRAPHER: OLLY CURTIS
EXECUTIVE BEAUTY EDITOR: SHANNON LAWLOR
SENIOR ART EDITOR: ANA OSPINA
Supporting imagery & video: Getty Images & Adobe stock
anybody else, with every Diptyque perfume delivering a heavy hit of mental escapism that takes you to a place or moment in time that feels emotionally familiar. Long gone are the days of perfumes fitting into simple woody, floral and citrus categories—Diptyque fragrances know how to make you feel. But having carved out its specialism as a house, there was one particular emotional facet that Diptyque was yet to have a go at. What, after all, engages our senses more powerfully than nature itself?
In a bold move, the brand has launched an entirely new line of fragrances, sitting separately from its core collection, in Les Essences De Diptyque—and it is nothing short of a feat. Comprising five eau de parfums, each crafted by the world’s most celebrated perfumers, the collection champions nature’s raw materials and some of its most evocative treasures. But don’t expect your typical elemental scents here, either—Les Essences De Diptyque captures the sort of poetic, emotional connection that exists between mankind and nature, delivering what is one of the most beautifully transformative collections of fragrances to ever exist. If Mother Nature ever really goes to sleep, Les Essences De Diptyque has bottled her dreams…
For its next fragrance chapter, Glossier once again proves that familiarity
is what sits at the heart of every great perfume.
PHOTOGRAPHER: OLLY CURTIS
EXECUTIVE BEAUTY EDITOR: SHANNON LAWLOR
SENIOR ART EDITOR: ANA OSPINA
Supporting imagery & video: Getty Images & Adobe stock
Adds a depth of sweet, warming woodiness.
£62
Glossier You Doux
Eau de Parfum
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£62
Glossier You Rêve
Eau de Parfum
Buy now
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Take everything you think you know about salty, marine perfumes and throw it out of the window—Corail Oscuro is both everything and nothing you might expect. It is shimmering with warm sunlight, but shadowed by the deep, dark depth of the ocean. It is crisp like sea salt, but sweet like sherbet. It is dry like aged coral, but brimming with green, juicy, iridescent life. Corail Oscuro is everything that the ocean is—vast, complex and undeniably good for the soul. It is like whiling away a Sunday afternoon picking seashells on the shores of the Hamptons.
Glossier You
£62
Glossier You
Eau de Parfum
Buy now
Take everything you think you know about salty, marine perfumes and throw it out of the window—Corail Oscuro is both everything and nothing you might expect. It is shimmering with warm sunlight, but shadowed by the deep, dark depth of the ocean. It is crisp like sea salt, but sweet like sherbet. It is dry like aged coral, but brimming with green, juicy, iridescent life. Corail Oscuro is everything that the ocean is—vast, complex and undeniably good for the soul. It is like whiling away a Sunday afternoon picking seashells on the shores of the Hamptons.
Glossier You
£62
Glossier You
Eau de Parfum
Buy now
And, now, we see Glossier launch two new fragrances to sit alongside the original: You Doux and You Rêve. You will have likely seen talk of these new You additions all over your social media—in true Glossier style, the launches are hard to get away from. But just how does a beauty brand go about diversifying one of the world’s most iconic perfumes without losing the very essence of its being—that chameleon-like nature that makes You familiar to everyone who smells it? Introducing the all new Glossier You family…
Close your eyes and imagine you are 18 again. You and your best friends are huddled around a mirror applying your make-up for a girls’ night out. You’re drinking dark fruit alcopops, your skin is slathered in body butter and you are applying layer upon layer of sticky, sweetly scented lip gloss. Bottle up that feeling of care-free, nostalgic youth and you land on Glossier You Rêve. At first it is milky, sweet and brimming with fun opportunities, but as it lingers just that little while longer, it becomes something all-encompassingly comforting—like a bottled up memory you want to relive over and over again.
with soft, subtle skin-like scents. In a time when super-luxe, muted, woody fragrances like Le Labo Santal 33 were reigning supreme, Glossier delivered something truly unique—a sweet, skin-enhancing scent that becomes a part of, well, you.
The arrival of Glossier You sparked a frenzy. Suddenly, everybody who was anybody wanted in on the new scent du jour. Seven years on, even when the hype around Glossier as a brand has at times dwindled, the love for You has remained greater than ever. Beauty editors consider it to be one of the most wearable and universally-adored perfumes in existence, fans of the brand buy bottle after bottle to cement its place as one of the most popular perfumes of our times and, critically, no fragrance house since has managed to do what You does—blur the lines between skin and perfume to the point of total indistinction.
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