It’s full-on summer in my part of the world, and this Friday’s community project is “wear something beachy, or anything you think of as ‘a vacation in a bottle,'” so here I am with two reviews of fragrances that fit this description. As I noted around this time last year, I’m not much of a summer person, but I’m very fond of the sub-genre of beachy perfumes. Here are two I’ve been enjoying in recent weeks.

I bought a bottle of Sunspel Sea Moss at the legendary Liberty department store in London back in March, because I hadn’t been there in twenty years and the exchange rate was very much in my favor and I learned that Lyn Harris (formerly of Miller Harris, currently of Perfumer H) had created this fragrance. The fact that I’d never heard of Sunspel, an upscale British sportswear brand, didn’t really enter into the decision… 

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