Daisy Mist Tropical Glow

Tropical Glow is the one worth paying attention to. Pineapple pulp opens it, and pulp is the right word: this is the sweet, slightly fermented flesh of the fruit rather than the sharp juice, which gives it a fuller and riper character than a standard pineapple note. Jasmine sambac absolute is the floral element, and using an absolute rather than a synthetic jasmine base is a genuine expense, giving a heady, faintly indolic warmth that stops the fruit reading as a sweet. Macadamia closes it with a soft, buttery nuttiness that smooths everything over. The result is creamy and tropical in the way beach body products have been for the last few years, and comparisons to Sol de Janeiro's mists are not unreasonable, though the jasmine gives this more of a perfume shape. As a hair and body mist it wears close and fades within an hour or two on skin, longer in hair. It is a summer scent first, works well on holiday, and layers under or over the citrus mists in the same range. The bottle is the green one, with the Daisy charm on the cap.