Narissa Ambre for women

Scent story

To me this smells like a Goan evening in December, when the frangipani trees are still flowering and the air is warm enough for bare shoulders. The flowers are everywhere — frangipani, ylang-ylang, that whole creamy white bouquet — sweet and slightly coconutty, the way tropical flowers smell after rain. Amber and vanilla rise like heat off the laterite roads, and cashmeran gives it that soft woollen warmth, like a shawl someone drapes over you when the sea breeze picks up. It's golden-hour skin, salt still on it, flowers in the hair. Pure holiday. Beginner-friendly.

✓ Beginner-friendly