Page 20 - Cosmopolitan - UK (April 2020)

Beauty lab

Victoria Jowett
Spring
BEAUTY DIRECTOR

perfumes

Each month, our beauty team tests the newest products

to see what reigns supreme. Here, Laura Capon

Cassie Powney sniffs out this season’s freshest scents
BEAUTY EDITOR

Britney Spears Glitter
Fantasy EDT, £21.50 (30ml)
*Jonathan Van Ness voice*
Can you believe it’s 15 years
since Britney first released
Fantasy? Bear with the 18th
version because, like Britney,
it’s a complicated soul. At first
it’s pure sugary fruit, but as
it dries down, the “alluring
musks” come out, and with
them an urgent desire to dance
Laura Capon
DEPUTY BEAUTY EDITOR provocatively with an albino
python. Someone get MTV
on the phone immediately.

Escentric Molecules Molecule
05 EDT, £79 (100ml)* The
brand that brought skin scents
to the masses has ventured into
summer fragrances, using just
Keeks Reid one note to encapsulate sunshine.
CONTRIBUTING BEAUTY WRITER It melted into my wrist leaving
behind the warmth, subtlety
and freshness of an August Marc Jacobs Daisy Eau So Fresh Daze
Mediterranean breeze. Impressive EDT, £75 (75ml) There are two types of
considering I’m writing this in an people: those who go wild for peach scents
office in the and those who think Too Faced should go
middle of to prison for scenting an entire make-up
February.
line with a stone fruit. If you fall into the
For the former camp, the copious peach notes
team’s favourite packed into this fragrance will fill you with
fragrances, go to deep joy. If you fall into the latter, well…
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