Our take
What does Glossier You smell like?
Glossier released its first perfume in autumn 2017 without naming the perfumer, and the formula is deliberately short. Pink pepper opens on its own, dry and faintly rosy. It soon hands over to a quiet iris with a powdery, foundation-like touch. Everything that matters happens close to the skin. Ambrette brings a plant-based musk with a pear-skin edge. Ambroxan adds the salty, mineral warmth that defines the skin-scent genre, in the same family as Juliette Has a Gun’s Not a Perfume. White musks finish the picture. It shifts from one wearer to the next, which is the whole pitch: it rarely smells like perfume, more like a slightly better version of you. On some skins, though, it all but disappears within the hour.
When to wear it
Year round except deep winter, for the office or daily wear; four or five sprays across skin and clothes. Ideal if you hate scents that announce you.
It belongs to the Floral, Woody, Musky family. Glossier You is one of 1 creations by Glossier in our encyclopedia.
