If you love beachy fragrances, you’re spoiled for choice these days. If you want Coppertone, CB I Hate Perfume’s At The Beach 1966 has you covered. If your idea of sunscreen is a bit more sophisticated than that, there’s Parfums de Nicolaï Musc Monoï or Bond no. 9 Fire Island or Estée Lauder Bronze Goddess. If you want to smell more like flowers and less like sunscreen — maybe your ideal beach is ringed by the manicured gardens of a tropical resort? — there’s Guerlain’s Terracotta Le Parfum. If you want the beach and nothing but, there are too many aquatics to list, but I’m partial to Comptoir Sud Pacifique’s Aqua Motu. If you want the sunscreen plus the beach, there’s always (duh!) Bobbi Brown Beach. If you want the sunscreen plus the beach plus the treats from the boardwalk, try Bond no. 9 Coney Island, or my preference and the subject of today’s review, What I Did On My Holidays, from the UK indie brand 4160Tuesdays.

Luckyscent tells us that “What I Did On My Holidays takes aim squarely at the real smells of a boardwalk-laced English holiday area: the kind full of chip shops, clanging arcade rides, and blissfully happy families.” Turns out the boardwalk-laced holiday areas in the new world aren’t all that different from the old…

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