This is a lovely, fresh-out-the-shower scent, clean and bright, but don't expect beastly performance for the price. It's a high-class soap experience - a simple pleasure that some find overpriced, and others adore for its exquisite natural quality.

Perfume Parlour's budget version of Guerlain Herbes Troublantes, the quiet herbal-cologne. It captures the crisp bergamot, garden-herb and orange-blossom freshness over clean musk, though it reads a little sharper and simpler than the refined niche original - and like it, stays close to the skin.