Yazhini ManimudiEveryone who uses perfumes has had an Oops! moment. Maybe you dropped your bottle, maybe it slipped and you caught it before it could fall. If you’re traveling, decanting into a travel-sized atomizer can be a pain. Solid presumes can solve a lot of those simple little problems- they’re easy to travel with, it’s no issue if your hands slip, and they can offer a milder scent for when you want to maintain a low profile.
Solid perfumes are harder to find, but some of the most popular fragrances can be found in solid form:
Glossier You Solid Perfume
Key notes: Iris, Musk, Ambrette, Ambroxan
Size: 3g
Unisex
Glossier’s ‘your skin but better’ perfume You comes in solid form. Just like the spray-on version, it’s a beautiful powdery floral fragrance. It’s warm, comforting and makes you feel at home. It’s a quintessential minimalist clean girl perfume that will go on to define this era of perfumes. The solid perfume is affordable and can be easily refilled for a much lower price when you hit pan.
Miss Dior Blooming Bouquet Mini Miss Solid Perfume
Key notes: Peony, Damask Rose, Musk
Size: 3.2 g
Feminine
The delicate and fresh florals of Miss Dior Blooming Bouquet have gone alcohol-free in a solid perfume. If you have any sensitivities to the alcohol in perfumes, you can try this one. It’s soft, pretty, and kind of princessy. Dior has gone for the stick form, much preferable to dipping a finger in a pot to pick the product up. It also means you won’t be wasting product on your fingers and eventually washing it off. There’s the very Dior like houndstooth pattern engraved on the packaging, giving it a nice luxury look you’ll like carrying around with you.
Estee Lauder Elegant Swim Beautiful Magnolia Solid Perfume Compact
Key notes: Magnolia Petals & Oil, Maté, Water Lotus, Sandalwood
Size: 0.63g
Feminine
Estee Lauder is the master at the art of solid perfume packaging. Since 1967, they have been choosing one of their most loved fragrances to turn into solid form contained in an artistic compact that you’d want to buy even if you don’t care much for the fragrance itself. The beautiful sparkling golden swan swimming in a golden goblet looks like a piece of jewelry and of course it does; it was created by luxury jewelry designer Monica Rich Kosann.
It’s a light, fresh, watery kind of floral fragrance. There’s nothing unique about it, but it’s a clean, pretty tea-like scent that is undeniably good. The price goes through the roof at AED 1,650 for not even a full gram of perfume, but I get it. When the 0.6 grams of product is over at the blink of an eye, you can refill it with another solid perfume you love. This one is not for the value, but for the proud collectors who want to pass down an heirloom piece to their hypothetical perfume loving grandchildren. It’s reminiscent of the good old days of beauty products that came in beautiful one of a kind packaging.
Diptyque Philosykos Solid Perfume
Key notes: Fig, Green Notes, Woody Notes, Coconut
Size: 3g
Unisex
Diptyque is the best when it comes to solid perfumes, offering a wider range than most brands at a reasonable price point. I’ve seen them for around AED 350 to 400 online. Refills make it even more affordable at less than AED 300 for a set of two pods. It’s such a steal if it’s a Diptyque fragrance you wear regularly.
Philosykos is one of the more popular fragrances from Diptyque. I’ve been loving fig in perfumes and Diptyque does it so well here. It’s reminiscent of a joyous garden party during summer. The coconut brings just the right amount of sweetness that makes a green fragrance interesting.
Lush Lord of Misrule
Key notes: Black Pepper, Vanilla, Patchouli
Size: 11g
Unisex
Lush is another brand with a good range of solid perfume options. Plus they’ve got the best value for your money at 11g of product for less than AED 100.
This fragrance is not shy at all. It uses black pepper for an exciting punch. There’s a soft vanilla in the background. But the star is the bold patchouli with its earthy, woody facets out there for you to feel. It’s a simple but good scent.
Yazhini Manimudi
