What perfumes are best to wear in April?

^{Glowing in the April sun, these perennial tulips are a welcome and fragrant splash of colour in the front garden.}

April is a tricky month of beguiling sunshine and bracing breezes in Scotland. But look at all the spring flowers bravely peeking their heads out. Here I’ve chosen 5 of my favourite April fragrances; some are brisker and brighter, some are softer and more rounded.

What perfumes do you enjoy wearing when the weather is so fickle?

As usual in my fragrance blog posts, I’ve written wee scent stories to give you the impression of a perfume. If you’re interested in the specific fragrance notes stated by a brand, feel free to click on the name of the perfume and that’ll take you to their website.

Voyeur Verde by Maya Njie

^{A gorgeous discovery set from Maya Njie, with beautiful postcards illustrating her creative inspiration.}

Imagine you’re in an old, wooden-framed conservatory. Slightly peeling white paint curls off the window frames, and dusty panes of glass filter dazzling summer light. A smoothly lustrous slab of a potting bench – an ancient dining table too big to fit in your wee house – sits firmly in the centre of your shady sanctuary.

Softly worn terracotta pots lined up on your bench, you bend to fill an old, brittle willow basket with compost. Rich, crumbly soil trickles through your fingers. Glossy and wriggling, a worm tumbles onto the cracked floor tiles, so you apologise and pop it back in the good, brown earth.

Swish, tap. Gently swaying in the warm breeze, an arm of jasmine brushes against the open door of your faded conservatory. Starry moon-white flowers gleam.

Grasping a heavy pot, you start to ease the slightly bedraggled looking lemon tree out. Tenderly combing through the compacted root ball, giving it a head start for its new home, the glossy leaves – still with some sparkling dew on – tickle your nose. A distant lawnmower whirrs.

Scooping compost from the wicker basket and tucking the newly liberated roots into the luxury of a bigger pot, you breathe a sigh of pleasure. A job well done. And your plant parenting conscience is clear.

Des Cendres by Les Abstraits

^{Des Cendres is one of a trio of perfumes made by Antoine Lie for Eugen Nizic and Les Abstraits (and sold in the UK through Sainte Cellier). Telling the story of Eugen’s journey through heartbreak, renewal and redemption, they are magnificently complex examples of vintage style perfumes.}

As a long time lover of Bandit by Robert Piguet and Knize Ten, this has a similar feel. Crushed, sappy green stems, a luxuriously generous white floral heart and a smoooothly soft leather drydown. Utterly bewitching.

Verdant by Eau de Boujee

^{Am I allowed favourite perfume brands? If so, Eau de Boujee is one of them. All their perfumes are exuberant, bursting with exciting juxtapositions and soul. They make you FEEL things.}

A ruined glasshouse where supersized plants have burst through the windows. Watery cucumber nestles against fleshy gardenia and a whitecurrant bush sprinkles its moonstone fruits generously. A glimmer of pale sun starts melting fior di latte gelato in a rough dish left on a potting bench—who was here…and where have they gone?

Eau Noble by Le Galion

^{Founded in 1930 and with a spectacular line up of perfumes, Le Galion was sold to an American company in 1980 and floundered. Come 2014 and fresh investment brought new life to this heritage French brand.}

Silvery green fir tree tops scattered with lemon sorbet and sprinkled with fresh mint. A bracing, mineral infused breeze sweeps down from an ancient glacier. Standing in a pile of wood shavings, and cosy in a woolly jersey, a woodcutter swings their axe for the first time that day.

Escrimeur by Detaille

^{Quietly making exquisite perfumes since 1905, Detaille is a sadly overlooked French fragrance house. Excellent value and classically characterful.}

Crisp snowy sheets billow and crack in a stiff northerly wind, breathing sweetly fresh sea air in between the softly worn linen fibres. In a patch of warm spring sun, a blue bowl with gleaming limes sits next to a tiny posy of violets on an old kitchen table. Glistening with condensation, a small chunky tumbler brimming with a freshly squeezed ginger shot beckons.

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