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Sunlit Clementine & Vetiver Eau de Parfum 100ml
£120
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n 2024, we’re asking for more out of our perfumes. A fragrance should no longer just make us smell great but also mentally transport us to a better place. It has
to set a scene, evoke an immediate emotional response and call upon an internal nostalgia to boost spirits. We have entered an era of what we like to call ‘wellness
perfumes’—where fragrance is used to lift your spirits and improve your state of mind. And this isn’t something that just any perfume can do—but British perfume house Molton Brown hasn’t just proved capable of it with their latest feat, they’ve set the
gold standard for what a wellness perfume should be.
The new Molton Brown Sunlit Clementine & Vetiver collection, created by Senior Perfumer Julie Massé, is the single most transportative example of perfumery we have ever encountered. Through the championing of ethical British craftsmanship (the
brand’s manufacturing house in Hertfordshire is carbon neutral) and the highest quality ingredients (every ingredient in this specific collection is vegan and cruelty-free), Sunlit Clementine & Vetiver embodies a summer state of mind, wherever you are. One deep inhale takes you to a place where the sun shines all day, stress doesn’t exist and summer never ends. With both an Eau de Parfum and an Eau de Toilette with differing expressions, alongside a Bath & Shower Gel and Body Lotion, through the sparkling brightness of clementine, each iteration smells as sun-soaked and joyous as the next.
Eau de Toilette
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The sun has risen, you creak the bedroom windows open and let the linen curtains blow in the morning breeze. As you head down to the kitchen, this time, you pour yourself a glass of freshly pressed orange juice over ice and head out onto the patio. The sun’s rays are calmly simmering beneath the haze, and the day is full of bright optimism.
NOTES
Fig leaves
Delivers a creamy, grounding quality
Vetiver
A fresh, green aroma of freshly-cut grass
It’s 6pm and the sun is low in the sky. Your skin is tight from having spent the balmy afternoon lounging under the rays. You have folded up your lounger and are freshly showered to get ready for an evening of al fresco dining. You step onto the cool tiles
of the kitchen floor and pour yourself a glass of wine before laying the table. Outside, the air has started to cool and the aroma of sun-drenched clementines starts to fade
and make way for the damp, woodier notes of the branches on which the oranges hang—this feeling is Sunlit Clementine & Vetiver Eau de Parfum.
Mood
NOTES
Mood
Clementine
Like ripping a juicy orange in two
Iris
The deep, powdered aroma of velvety petals
Suede
A subtle touch of leathery depth that becomes one with the skin
PHOTOGRAPHER: Neil Godwin
EXECUTIVE BEAUTY EDITOR: SHANNON LAWLOR
SENIOR designer: treasa Burns
Project Manager: Giselle Binks
Producer: Yasmin Coke
The morning air is hazy, the sun’s rays beat down on the ground, and you don’t have a care in the world—Molton Brown Sunlit Clementine & Vetiver takes you there.
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Eau de Parfum
Clementine
Like ripping a juicy orange in two
summer
To truly understand the beauty that is Sunlit Clementine & Vetiver requires a mental shift. You are no longer on overcast UK land but are, instead, in a villa situated in the rolling hills of Tuscany, where you have spent the entire summer. You while away the days reading books on the patio among the green leaves and hanging fruits of the citrus trees that surround you. When the warmth of the sun becomes too much, you take relieving dips in the crystal-clear water of the pool. You are living la dolce vita…
Clementine to me is sunshine all year long.
I love its fizzy, zesty, green and bitter notes
which have a complexity not found in other citrus fruits. It’s an instant injection of
optimistic energy and warmth,
inspiring me to connect with nature and reclaim a sense of peace.”
— Julie Massé
“
Clementine to me is sunshine all year long. I love its fizzy, zesty, green and bitter notes which have a complexity not found in other citrus fruits.
It’s an instant injection of optimistic energy
and warmth, inspiring me to connect with nature and reclaim a sense of peace.”
While the uplifting juiciness of clementine is very much present, it is in the Eau de Parfum that the collection’s signature note, bourbon vetiver, really comes into its own. Native to Madagascar (where Molton Brown’s fragrance house collaborates closely with farmers to grow the organic vetiver sustainably), this bourbon vetiver has a smokier element. As the sun sets on the day, the Eau de Parfum makes way for a deeper, earthier experience. It possesses all of the freshness of just-showered skin and the depth of tree bark, while expertly radiating the velvety nature of the summer evening air.
While summery, citrus fragrances can all too easily turn creamy and sun-cream-like, Sunlit Clementine & Vetiver Eau de Toilette is nothing of the sort. The clementine is water-like and icy, warming fig leaves deliver a skin-like element that leaves the aroma lingering for many hours, and the bourbon vetiver keeps things fresh, green and crunchy—together, it forms an ice-cool tonic of beaming summer radiance.
While the longevity of both Sunlit Clementine & Vetiver fragrances are, hands down, some of the most impressive out there when it comes to citrus-based scents, the feeling of emotional summer escapism is only intensified when layered over the body care that also features in the collection. The Bath & Shower Gel is like dousing yourself in the most uplifting and invigorating clementine scent around, and the Body Lotion locks
it all in with a skin-like creaminess and warmth.
Bath & Body
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Sunlit Clementine & Vetiver Eau de Toilette 100ml
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£25
Sunlit Clementine
& Vetiver Bath & Shower Gel 300ml
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Sunlit Clementine
& Vetiver Body
Lotion 300ml
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WORDS: SHANNON LAWLOR