It’s the travel season. For many, that means long hours spent travelling on planes and smelling musty. If you don’t want to deal with airlines’ liquid limits, try a beauty fan’s best travel hack: solid perfume. They’re perfect because they easily fit in your carry-on, easy to apply on-the-go, and won’t spill. Ahead: six solid perfumes that’ll keep you smelling fresh even after long-haul flights.
1. J’adior Solid Perfume in L’Or de J’adore, $189 for 3.2g, Dior
If you want something warm and feminine, Dior’s newest solid perfumes are perfect. The L’Or de J’adore is an intense floral scent, with notes of orange blossom absolute, jasmine grandiflorum and centifolia rose that create an intense warm and feminine fragrance.
2. L’eau Papier solid perfume, $102 for 3g, Diptyque
This is for those who love musky fragrances: Diptyque’s L’Eau Papier. Like its name suggests, this fragrance is inspired by ink settled on paper. It’s got notes of white musk, rice steam accord, mimosa, and blonde woods accord, creating a scent that’s natural and clean — like your skin, but better.
3. Solid perfume in Fresh As, $30 for 6g, Lush
For those who want to smell as crisp and fresh as possible, this fragrance literally smells like a pine forest. With notes of Siberian pine, pine needles, benzoin, marigold and orris, it’s a crisp fragrance that dries down into a light amber. Perfect for leaving you smelling, as its name suggests, fresh as.
4. Atelier Des Fleurs solid perfume in Cedrus, $95 for 3g, Chloe
For those who want something more elegant, this is the fragrance for you. With notes of wood, cedar, vetiver and sandalwood, it’s a fragrance that’s smooth and earthy with just a hint of smokiness that isn’t too intense. It opens with a bright bergamot that’s fresh and green before deepening into a scent akin to worn leather. The sort of fragrance that you’d imagine on a character in a dark academia novel.
5. Glossier You solid perfume, $55 for 3g, Glossier
For something soft, creamy and light, Glossier TikTok viral perfume, Glossier You, now comes in a super portable solid version. With notes of pink pepper, iris, ambrette seeds and ambrox, it’s very clean and warm, and surprisingly not as crisp despite its pink pepper top notes. That said, this perfume is meant to smell different on each person: it’s meant to mingle with your skin’s pH and oils — hence, why it’s named You.
6. Solid perfume in Cotton Fog, $41 for 6.5g, After Blow
If you want something that cozy and soft, like fresh laundry, this would be right up your alley. With notes of geranium, cyclamen, violet, jasmine, musk, sandalwood, and cedarwood, this fragrance literally smells like fresh floral fabric softener.
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