Beauty Bible Weekend Steal: The Perfume Society Summer Seasonal Scent Subscription Box

A holiday-perfect line-up of fragrances has landed on our desks from The Perfume Society.

Regular readers will remember that Jo set up The Perfume Society with fragrance industry expert Lorna McKay. (For clarity: Lorna now runs the Society, having bought it from Jo – but Jo still edits the multi-award-winning magazine The Scented Letter, which you can sign up for here).

It was Jo and Lorna’s vision to educate via the website (perfumesociety.org) and to introduce scent-lovers to new fragrances via samples, which are accompanied by Smelling Notes, enabling a real deep-dive into each scent before committing to the expense of buying a full-size fragrance. It is honestly a golden rule that everyone should try a fragrance on skin to find out how it interacts with their individual chemistry, and to ensure that you love it at every stage – not just first sniff, which is pretty much all you get to do in a store.

This is a truly lovely curation, in which you’ll enjoy samples of the following – PLUS a full-size fresh-scented, sea buckthorn-powered Weleda Vitality Body Wash (worth £7.50).

On a rolling quarterly contract, it’s £21 – shop here – or sign up for the year’s subscription for £78. (Note: you’re free to cancel anytime.)

• Adscenture Secret Garden (2ml extrait de parfum spray) – bewitchingly exotic, creamy, floral and sun-kissed

• Atkinsons Mint & Tonic (7ml eau de parfum splash) – the embodiment of freshness and crispness, for summer

• Floris Purple Mémoire (2ml eau de parfum spray) – one of Jo’s most adored recent discoveries, with aromatic lavender softened by vanilla

• Molton Brown Coastal Cypress & Sea Fennel (1.5ml eau de parfum) – literally a breath of crystalline coastal air

• Parfums de Marly Delina Exclusif (1.5ml parfum spray) – something very special: the intensified version of this super-feminine bestseller

• Shay & Blue Cedarwood & Grapefruit (2ml eau de parfum spray) – shareable, wearable, super-fresh and woody

• Sarah Baker Peach’s Revenge (2ml extrait de parfum spray) – a peachy gourmand that will push even gourmand refuseniks’ buttons

• Superdry Real O2 (1.8ml eau de toilette spray) – you’ll receive either the men’s or the women’s fragrance, in this instance

• Thomas de Monaco Ultima Storia (2ml extrait de parfum) – a smoochy and unusual gourmand, with notes of black lemon, pear, roasted coffee, leather and almond

… plus that bonus Weleda Body Wash.

There is literally something for everyone (we always share any fragrances that don’t push our buttons with friends and family members). Great value, as ever, and a terrific curation – completely in the spirit of why The Perfume Society was set up, we’d say.

£21 – buy here

PS Jo remembered that back in the day, to celebrate one of The Perfume Society’s early summer scent curations – The Jet Set Box – the team had great fun putting together a Spotify playlist, which you can find here. Having listened again, we thought you’d like to know that it’s packed with timeless summer sounds – which go equally well with this timeless selection of summer scents…