It is so easy to find a perfume you really love and stick with for many years, but what are you going to do on your wedding day? Are you in the buy something new camp, or are you going to trust your old faithful to see you through the day with your favourite scent?
It may be a minor detail of the day, but scents really do carry memories, we all know how our mammies house smells when she’s rustling up a Sunday roast, don’t we? Well, your perfume is just the same (although not chicken scented!) if you stick with your trusty perfume will it really feel that special? If you choose something new, when you wear it after your wedding surely it will remind you of that happy day, and not just that you wore it yesterday?!
To help you out we have rounded up some of the snazziest new scents around for you. Have a look, then get yourself down to the beauty counter and choose your wedding fragrance!
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Florabotanica by Balenciaga: Florabotanica is an experimental rose that has the power to endlessly charm. Two architectural notes: a fresh floral facet and a mysterious green facet.
Diane by Diane Von Furstenberg: This beautiful scent has two key notes, violet and frangipani, which contrast each other, which is a deliberate choice made by Diane to represent the ying and yang contrast in woman.
Armani Code Luna: Luna is inspired by moonflower, a rare and precious flower which is known to blossom and bloom from the light of the moon. The scent is pretty and distinctively floral with clean, fresh undertones.
La Vie Est Belle by Lancome: Translated from the french phrase for life is beautiful, this perfume has delicate ingredients including iris, jasmine, orange blossom and patchouli essence.
Fairy Dance by Anna Sui: This sublime and seductive scent has top notes of tangerine, mango and pink pepper, and at its heart, rose.
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Boss Nuit Pour Femme: This fragrance was inspired by the trusty little black dress and what it stands for. Just like the LBD it compliments women with its notes of violet, jasmine and peach.
Very Estee by Estee Lauder: This fragrance is luxuriously feminine and very sophisticated, just how you want to feel on your wedding day! The alluring appeal of the modern woman is captured in the freshness of Lotus and Freesia.
Ivoire by Balmain: This modern fragrance from the House of Balmain is sophisticated in its appearance and delectable in its scent. It opens with a burst of orange and mandarin essence, carries a charismatic floral bouquet of ylang ylang, jasmine and rose and finishes with woody notes of cedarwood and subtle vanilla.
Petal Noir by Agent Provocateur: Petale Noir is an oriental floral fragrance with a long ingredient list! Top notes includes lotus, magnolia and mandarin orange, heart notes include rose, neroli and orris root and base notes of leather, sandalwood, cedar and labdanum.
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