Blossom opens on red fruit, so the obvious question for me is what else lives in that register. Burberry Her Elixir leans deeper, with strawberry and blackberry accords over jasmine, vanilla, amber and a sandalwood base. Gucci Flora Gorgeous Magnolia swaps the raspberry for a dewberries accord, sets it beside magnolia and finishes with patchouli, which gives it a greener, more grown-up shape. Marc Jacobs Just Perfect is the playful one, with strawberry, passionfruit and mandarin over jasmine and orange blossom, and a base the brand calls vanilla and amber sorbet. Henry Rose Rhu Berry is the outlier: tart rhubarb, strawberry peach jam, musk and sandalwood. Michelle Pfeiffer founded the label and named it for her children's middle names, Henry and Rose. My tip is to spray each on skin and wait ten minutes before deciding, because a berry perfume shifts most in that first stretch, and the jammy notes are not the ones that stay.

Grid three is for the days Blossom feels too bright and you want something that sits nearer the skin. Dolce&Gabbana My Devotion Intense opens on pear blossom and black currant, opens into peony, and settles into Madagascar vanilla. Jo Malone London Peony & Blush Suede pairs red apple with peony and a soft suede base, and the house designs its colognes to be layered, so it plays well with a plain musk. Versace Dylan Blush Pink is the sweetest of the four, with strawberry apple, freesia, orange blossom and marshmallow over vanilla. Cyklar Flora Veil is a roll-on oil, and Claudia Sulewski founded the brand in 2023, so it is the newest name here. It moves from raspberry seed and peony petals to sandalwood, white amber and skin musk. If you want one peony perfume to start with, the roll-on is the quietest. What I would skip is stacking a sweet spray over a sweet body lotion in the same spot, because the two fight and you lose the detail of both.

Perfume is easier to wear than it is to choose, and I think the most useful test is the second hour, not the first spray. Blossom, to my nose, is a daylight scent: errands, a desk, a long lunch. The siblings are for later, and the quieter florals in the last grid are for days when you want people to lean in rather than notice you from across the room. Pick the one you would still be happy to smell on your own collar at six in the evening, and let the rest wait for another mood. If you want to keep browsing, I also put together The Best Jimmy Choo Shoes to Invest In for Fall (And Yes, the Bags) and The Shoe Edit.