Beach Bobbi Brown 2002

I grew up in Florida and routinely went to the beach on the weekends with my family as a kid. This perfume conjures up the sweetest nostalgic memories for me, and I imagine would for any beach lover.

It comes off strong on the first spray as a strong sunscreen/bugspray smell (gotta keep the mosquitoes away), reminiscent of piling out of the car and dousing myself in sunscreen before running shoeless across screaming hot pavement to the splintery boardwalk. After it dries down, I start to smell the sea salt and ocean water as I crest the dunes of the beach and embrace the ocean air with the ocean spread out before me. Then, as the day winds down and it's time to leave the beach, I smell the subtle blooms of jasmine and orange blossoms flanking the parking lot as we head home.