The limited annual release of Estée Lauder’s Bronze Goddess Skinscent (£43, 50ml) signals the start of beauty’s own asparagus season. As usual, I plan to binge on it, despite it being in many ways exactly the sort of simple, crowd-pleasing fragrance I’d avoid at any other time of the year. Skinscent’s bright, coconutty, suntan-oily notes – like a sniff of a hot arm after a day at the beach – are arguably basic, but somehow all the lovelier for it. I love it so much that I wondered if anything else hits the same spot. In a crude but nonetheless joyful sense, Hawaiian Tropic Golden Paradise (£10, 250ml) does.

Source: The Guardian May 26, 2018 06:56 UTC