Are you looking for a fabulous perfume to celebrate Spring, Easter and New Beginnings? Look no further – I’ve just discovered Clinique’s Happy, currently in fabulous limited edition packaging. I love it. Like me, you may equate Clinique with their amazing skin products – however ignore their lovely fragrances at your peril.
But what makes a good perfume? Let me share what I know with you (it won’t take long).
Perfumers blend different fragrances, making use of their different volatilities to control how long the fragrance lasts and how the scent evolves. The component perfumes are chosen to hit the air at different times, and these are what is known as the top, heart and base notes in perfume descriptions.
Spring and summer scents tend to be fruity and lighter, they last longer and are less overwhelming and Happy ticks all these boxes. It’s absolutely packed with different floral scents:
Top notes: Vibrant citrus including Ruby Red Grapefruit & Bergamot.
Heart: Exotic Morning Dew Orchid and Boysenberry Bush Flower.
Base notes: Tropical, sensual ingredients like Hawaiian Wedding Flower, White Crinium Lily, Chinese Golden Magnolia and Spring Mimosa.
Are you starting to see why I’m blown away by it? The scent lasted all evening on me and frankly, made me feel good. When I first sprayed, the clean fresh citrus hit me, but after an hour the fragrance was much gentler and rounder – lily and magnolia mainly – beautiful.
If you’re looking to buy for someone special (Mother’s Day is around the corner) do grab the limited edition bottle. It’s signed ‘You are enough‘ by Global Ambassador Emilia Clarke. And guess what? Clinique is making a 30% donation to Emilia’s charity SameYou for brain injury recovery survivors. Emilia herself survived two life-threatening brain haemorrhages and a stroke in her twenties.
So do check out the Clinique website. The 50ml perfume limited edition bottle is £50. Make your mum Happy – she deserves it.
By Dr K Thompson, award-winning author of From Both Ends of the Stethoscope: Getting through breast cancer – by a doctor who knows
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