We definitely have a ‘fragrance wishlist’: perfumes we long to own, or bottles we want to replenish, but which are a teensy bit beyond budget at a given time. Somehow, the anticipation makes it all the more special when we get our hands – or more precisely, wrists – on them.

There are, however, an increasing number of good fragrances around which do not require a piggy bank, or walking to work every day for a month, to splash out on. (Not that walking to work for every day ever did us any harm, back in the day, when it was a toss-up between affording lunch and commuting on the Tube.)

Case in point: the super-affordable M&S Discover Intense fragrances, which you absolutely must NOT be put off because they are indeed a total steal. The range kicked off with the Discover fragrances, now joined by Discover Intense which (as the name suggests) are a little more powerful – still eau de toilette strength, but not quite as airy and ephemeral as the original line-up.

You can distinguish them by the bottles: Intense have opaque bottles, and look very stylish indeed. But it’s what’s inside that has us excited. Three fragrances particularly stand out, in the line-up, as follows…

Seasalt & Neroli Eau de Toilette – if you like your scents fresh and outdoorsy, with wafts of sea breeze and airy citrus, head for this.

Red Berries & Rose Eau de Toilette – plenty of rose in here, for rose-lovers, with a touch of tart (rather than sweet) red berries, skin-warmed to reveal vanilla (not too much) and amber. A crowd-pleaser, this one.

Orange Blossom & Amber Eau de Toilette – who doesn’t love orange blossom…? Nobody we know, that’s for sure. This pairs that white floral with soft, buffed amber, and is the smoochiest of our trio.

Incredible value. They aren’t a Guerlain Mitsouko or a Chanel No.5 – but as payday-friendly perfumes go, they’re seriously worth sniffing out.

Quite literally.

From £6 for 30ml – buy here

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