Marc Jacobs Splashes: Capturing Summer In A Bottle

Here we are in the midst of one of the hottest summers on record. It’s enough to make you pray for snow. Thankfully, white hot designer Marc Jacobs launched a light ‘n fresh line of fragrances earlier this summer. You know that phrase, “capturing lightning in a bottle.” Well, MJ has done the impossible and captured summer in 3 different bottles.

The breezy scents – Rain, Grass, and Cotton—are airy and crisp, enough for generous application. Best of all, they’re light, don’t smell ‘perfumey,’ and they stick with you all day. They are also affordable, unisex, packaged in enormous glass bottles, and can be layered over top one another or worn alone, so you can go crazy and blast your entire body with any of these scents without every feeling overwhelmed or overfragranced. Best of all, they can be worn well into Indian Summer and late Fall. Ever versatile, the Marc Jacobs fragrances can be applied with a spray pump or splashed on. These splashes are as close to perfume nirvana as you’re going to get.

Grass, with its notes of morning mist and tender blossoms, is a fresh, green scent that is delectable when paired with both Rain and Cotton. It dries down to a soft, dewy musk. If you want to know what lying in a hammock on a summer morning feels like, Grass captures that essence.

Whereas Grass is floral, Rain is fruitier, with notes of wild strawberry, clementine zest, and dewy cypress, laced with passion flower and white orchid. Douse behind you knees, on all your pulse points and the back of your neck and you’ll feel like you just tiptoed in a summer rain shower.

My favorite of all the splashes is Cotton. With notes of fresh line breezes, liquid oxygen – don’t ask, just indulge- white peach and bergamot accords, Cotton is soft, light, and sunny. It mixes well with Grass and Rain, and surprisingly, when layered with a coconut scented body splash, it’s heavenly. Another tip: spray two pumps of fragrance into the air and then walk through the cottony cloud, and your hair, even if it wilts in the humidity, will smell divine.

They’ll last well into the Fall, and since scent is linked to memory, when I’m pulling on my vintage black leather jacket on a crisp November morning, I’ll remember what I did last summer.

For more information visit www.marcjacobs.com.