Top 10 summer perfumes

If the scorching heat of the summer sun is seriously zapping your spirit, you need to read on. beautyheaven has hunted down the top ten best perfume picks for the hot season. Check out these refreshing, light summer scents…

1. Decleor Paris Arome Spa Tonic Treatment Fragrance, RRP $100
This super fresh, energising perfume for women is just perfect for beating the summer heat. Containing invigorating ginseng to awaken the senses and vitamin B5 to moisten and soften dehydrated summer skin – this is a beach bag must-have.

2. Balenciaga Paris, RRP $95
A beautifully light, refreshing fragrance with calming mossy wood notes and peppery hints, this is the latest perfume to win a FiFi Award. Just a couple of sprays of this delicate scent will refresh your body and mind.

3. Bobbi Brown Beach Fragrance, RRP $99
This is the closest thing you’ll get to a warm sunny beach in a bottle. Bursting with sand jasmine, sea spray and zesty mandarin, one spray will have your mind drifting away to beachy days.

4. Urban Rituelle Beachcomber Coconut & Ginger Summer Scents, RRP $13.95
The name says it all. This scent is everything we love about summer: fresh creamy coconut and invigorating ginger evoke images of cocktail sipping by the pool. It’s also a super-cheap bargain buy and the slimline bottle design is ideal for summertime travel.

5. Davidoff Cool Water Woman, RRP $45
Like a fragrant ocean spritz, this surprisingly light and refreshing perfume will leave you feeling cool, calm and totally chilled out when the heatwaves hit. Just looking at the teardrop-shaped crystal blue glass bottle makes us feel like we’re floating in a lagoon.

6. The Body Shop Dreams Unlimited Eau De Parfum, RRP $39.95
This crisp, invigorating perfume will energise even the most lethargic of summer beauties. Combining awakening notes of citrus, green chilli and white flowers it packs an instant cooling punch.

7. Crabtree & Evelyn Nantucket Briar EDT Traveller, RRP $24.95
How sweet! In a perfect, cute little travel size roll on stick that comes gorgeously boxed, this fragrance is so small and discreet you can easily throw it in your handbag for touch-ups when the summer sun gets you feeling all hot and bothered. Smells like fresh, clean laundry!

8. Artistry Opportune For Women Eau de Parfum, RRP $49.95
You’ll love how light, fresh and crisp this perfume smells on your skin. Makes you feel positively radiant when applied straight after a frolic in the ocean. It’s ever so subtle too, which makes it great as an everyday scent.

9. Vera Wang Preppy Princess, RRP $59
This refreshing fragrance opens with clean notes of apple, tangerine and crushed berries, evoking instant daydreams of delish summer cocktails. Fruity scents fade away and are replaced by whiffs of creamy coconut throughout the day. The bottle is true Vera Wang chic too.

10. Estee Lauder Pure White Linen, RRP $80
What could be a more cooling and calming way to break the oppressive summer heat than with the scent of fresh, clean linen? With notes of gardenia, iris, tulip and honeysuckle, this perfume is so intoxicating.