As a beauty editor with friends in the business, I know as well as anyone that, in trying to identify the , asking a fellow beauty journalist to share their is a tricky ask. While it’s our job to test new fragrance launches, and trending scents to decipher which ones are actually worth spending your hard-earned cash on, revealing which perfumes we keep on rotation in our own personal stash is another matter entirely. After all, most of us like to feel unique in our fragrance choices as perfume can be a real extension of our personalities—so if you’ve found a that nobody else knows about then it can be tempting to keep it to yourself.
However, I’m really not about gatekeeping, and there’s one fragrance category in particular that I’m always most intrigued to ask people about: evening perfumes. Often deeper, darker and more complex than the that most of us gravitate towards on a daily basis, the very best evening perfumes give us a chance to step outside of our fragrance comfort zones and embrace a more experimental side. And, luckily, I found 11 fellow beauty editors who were more than happy to share which fragrances they always reach for after dusk.
"My favourite perfume of all time is Chanel Beige, and I think it's super sexy for nighttime as well as subtle enough for daywear. It's ironically anything but 'beige'. I think it's complex and layered, and dries down differently on every person.
On me, it smells 'sparkly' somehow, but that may be my synesthesia! I get comments about it all the time on nights out, which makes the higher price tag absolutely worth it." –.
