You may remember that for a l-o-n-g time, Jo co-ran The Perfume Society with Lorna McKay. Nowadays, she edits the Society’s magazine, The Scented Letter – more of which below – and Lorna is at the helm of The Perfume Society, so the discovery boxes for which they’re famed now always come as a rather nice surprise.

Especially this one – partly because of the (appropriately) fabulous design of the box, but also (most importantly) because of the contents, all in bottles perfectly sized to slip into even the teeniest party clutch bag.

Here’s what you can expect in this latest curation, which is priced £23 – or £19 if you’re signed up to The Perfume Society V.I.P. Club, here.

Adscenture Holographic (2ml EDP) – first sniff of an exciting new brand, a floral-musky fusion of magnolia, jasmine, rose, cedarwood, with a sea breeze drifting through.

Creed Carmina (1.7ml (EDP) – the very latest from this elite fragrance house.

EAU.MG Flor Funk (2ml) – think violet leaf, pear, orange flower, musk and moss, lingering on the skin.

Escentric Molecules Molecule 01 + Black Tea (2ml EDT) – one of our favourites in the box, with the fabled fragrance note Iso E Super given a fresh flash of black tea and maté absolute.

Goldfield & Banks Ingenious Ginger (2ml EDP) – another fave, which is so uplifting, offering white florals spiced by ginger and warmed by amber. Nose-tinglingly good.

Lancôme Idôle (1.2ml EDP) – haven’t tried this modern classic yet? Here’s your chance.

MALIN + GOETZ Strawberry (.75ml EDP) – a ‘reimagined’ strawberry, fresh and genderless, like a shaft of sunlight on a winter’s day.

Parfums de Marly Althair (1.5ml EDP) – a very recently-launched upscale fragrance from a really interesting Parisian perfume house, woody and vanilla-y and altogether GORGEOUS.

Pictor Parfums Flash (2ml EDP) – another brand new brand, inspired by the language of photography, proffered here in floral-fruity form.

Penhaligon’s Quercus Body & Hand Wash and Body & Hand Lotion (30ml sizes of each). Supposedly masculine, but we love this oaky, citrusy, herbal scent, in gentle-on-skin formulations.

£23 – buy here

* We mentioned The Scented Letter, which Jo edits; in the current edition is a fabulous Christmas Gift Guide with a huge array of scented gorgeousness across 19 pages, and all manner of other articles which take you behind the scenes of the scent world. If you’d like to keep your finger on the pulse, sign up for your free quarterly copy here, and it’ll ping into your inbox, starting with ‘A Feast for the Senses’, below!

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