Striking oils

Hot-hot-hot home fragrance brand

NEST New York now invite us to anoint our bodies with their Perfume Oil Collection: Madagascar Vanilla, Indian Jasmine, Turkish Rose, Seville Orange and South Pacific Sandalwood. (In time for summer, look forward to exotic Balinese Coconut, too.)

From £34 (6ml rollerball) to £96 for 30ml cultbeauty.com

Created for layering, intensifying, personalising your fragrances – or wearing alone, come to that – The Merchant of Venice have added Vetiver, Vaniglia, Petigrain and Rosa to their Accordi di Profumi line-up, promising endless perfume permutations.

£65 for 30ml eau de parfum harveynichols.com

BODY SHOP’S BOUQUET

heaven can’t wait

Two or three resinous nuggets of Officine

Universelle Buly’s Mount Athos Incense scent a room, honouring a 2,000 year fragrant tradition at the ancient Orthodox monasteries on Mount Athos, in 14 scents, including Rose, spicy-flowery Heavens Scent and honeyed Byzantine. (Just don’t confuse them with breath mints.)

€25 buly1803.com

In step with the floral theme of this issue, Full Iris, Full Ylang Ylang, Full Rose and Full Orange Flower. A great price for great scents. (Full-on fabulous, basically.)

£39 for 75ml thebodyshop.com

Perfect for shifting the mood as darkness falls, Discothèque’s nine candles are inspired by famous (and infamous) nightclubs, from the Wag Club to Paradise Garage, via Hacienda. Time travel, via scented wax.

£45 for 220g discothequefragrances.com