NewBeauty spotlights giftable summer fragrances in fruity and solar scents

Banane Délice was the easiest entry point, and maybe the most charming one to hand to a friend who likes scent that feels a little nostalgic and a little cheeky. At $28 for 30 mL, it was the most accessible bottle in the group, but the packaging still gave it gift appeal: a clear rectangular bottle with pale yellow juice. Its notes, Banana Milk, Coconut Solar and Sugared Musks, made it feel like summer without drifting into a standard citrus-floral script. This was the bottle for the person who likes a beauty buy that feels fun first and precious second, the kind of gift that gets opened immediately and shown around.

Rose Pacific took a more polished route. D.S. & Durga framed the limited-edition 50 mL eau de parfum around “sun-soaked California rose,” with apricot, sea spray and vanilla musk giving it a coastal softness rather than a traditional bouquet. The scent fit someone who prefers perfume with a lived-in, West Coast ease, especially if they already gravitate toward airy musks and rose with salt on the edges. The launch also had social energy around it, with D.S. & Durga tying Rose Pacific to a month-long Perfume Clubbing series in New York and Los Angeles, which made the fragrance feel less like a standard seasonal release and more like an object with a scene around it.

BDK Silver Ceremony landed at the more dressed-up end of the spectrum. Conceived in “resonance with the precious radiance of sequins,” it opened with bergamot, green mandarin, lemon, ginger and pink pepper before moving into cedar, patchouli, oud and labdanum. Third-party listings placed it as a 2026 unisex extrait de parfum in BDK’s Studio Collection, composed by Jordi Fernández, and one listing put the concentration at 48 percent. That depth made it the strongest choice for someone who likes fragrance to feel tailored, not just seasonal, and for gift-givers who want a bottle that reads as intentional the second it comes out of the box.