Kasia

Kasia belongs to Ted Baker's Floralicious range and is the softest, creamiest of the set. It opens on lychee, which is the note doing most of the identifying work here: sweet, slightly rose-tinted and unmistakably tropical, lifted by orange blossom that adds a clean floral brightness and keeps the fruit from becoming syrupy. The heart pairs jasmine with coconut, and this is the pairing that gives the fragrance its character. The coconut is handled as a creamy, milky texture rather than as suntan lotion, and it wraps around the jasmine to produce something closer to a soft floral custard than to a beach scent. The base carries that comfort through with vanilla, amber and sandalwood, a warm, slightly powdery finish that lingers close to the skin. Ted Baker markets the fragrance around MoodScentz+, a Givaudan blending technology, and the composition does read as deliberately uplifting rather than complex. Performance is typical for an eau de toilette at this price, giving four to six hours with modest projection, so a re-spray through a long day is realistic. It suits spring and summer, works fine at a desk and is a natural everyday choice, but the vanilla and sandalwood base gives it enough warmth to hold up on a cooler evening. In lane terms it is a high-street creamy fruity floral, and a good pick for anyone who finds most pink-bottle scents too sharp.