Sali Hughes on beauty: If you like sweet scents, now is the time to pop your cherry

I emotion the thought of cherry fragrances – I find the fruit, its aesthetic, the juicy, crisp sensation and extent of colour appealing. But adjacent now, arsenic cherry perfumes spell viral – immoderate good examples among them – I can’t rather find 1 that maintains the sourness portion holding the sugar. But if, dissimilar me, you favour a saccharine scent, there’s ne'er been a amended clip to popular one’s cherry.

Top of the histrion is Van Cleef & Arpels’ caller Moonlight Cherry. I approached with trepidation, but stayed for the bitter espresso notes and the sexy whiff of plump, boozy cocktail cherries steeping successful the bottommost of a glass, swollen from hard liquor. Elegant and complex, this smells precise costly (and astatine £164, albeit for a large 75ml bottle, it is), sex neutral and distinctly “black tie” successful formal code. I uncertainty I’ll beryllium wearing it myself (I’ve ne'er had a saccharine tooth), but if it wafted past maine astatine a party, I’d travel its heady trail. Just beautiful.

Zara’s Cherry Smoothie is antithetic successful each way. At conscionable £12.99 for 30ml, it’s been designed for a younger, little bold consumer, and though sweet, it has avoided the cloying melted Haribo way taken by others successful the market. This is simply a adust powder-puff fragrance that I find amazingly charming. Think airborne cherry sherbet, washing powder, a hint of ripe plums for assemblage and a subtle whiff of vintage makeup. It is unsophisticated, but has a gentle, guiltless prime that makes it a precise casual deterioration for casual, low-key days (sadly not by maine though, since my hubby loathed it).

Similarly uncomplicated, but way more raucous and fun, is Sweet Tooth Cherry Baby (£24.99) by Sabrina Carpenter, a vocalist that I know practically thing astir but that she was loved for her matching hep flask and gown ensemble astatine the Grammys. This is an unabashed cherry weaponry – oregon alternatively an undiluted Rowntree’s jelly of a fragrance. Sugary, concentrated, stickily fruity, it gets yet much sweetness from vanilla that cannot be grounded by the musky, woody base. Bold, juicy, maybe a small spot screechy – it’s a riot.

Juliette from Juliette Has a Gun (£100 for 50ml) is simply a delight. It is inactive sweet, but has an airiness, similar a cherry bakewell tart served astatine a breezy picnic. There’s stacks of sexy, blase jasmine made playful by brushed spices and Snickers-bar nuttiness. Feminine, antithetic and vintage successful feel, this is precisely what I ideate Twin Peaks’ Audrey Horne wearing portion she performed her celebrated in-mouth knot-tying of a cherry stalk.