Here’s your perfect perfume, according to your Taylor Swift era

Taylor Swift keeps it brief with just one song from her Speak Now album, Enchanted, which follows a fairytale theme of being enchanted by someone after meeting for the first time. The tour sees her wear lilac gowns from Nicole + Felicia, a Zuhair Murad and an Ellie Saab. As for the fragrance, we couldn’t not mention Taylor’s (now discontinued) collab with Elizabeth Arden in 2011 on a perfume that borrowed its name from Enchanted’s lyrics: “Wonderstruck”, and the follow-up “Wonderstruck Enchanted” which launched a year later. Both were sweet florals with notes of freesia, peach and sandalwood, and peony freesia and vanilla respectively. You can still pick them up on re-sell sites like eBay, but for a scent that’s still readily available, we’d recommend turning to another of Taylor’s rumoured favourites: Viktor & Rolf Flowerbomb, a floral explosion of orchid, jasmine, rose and freesia, that smells young, sweet and fairytale-worthy.

5. Reputation

Things take a dark turn when Reputation hits. A furious, brooding, retaliation of an album, Reputation marks Taylor’s return to the public eye with songs like Look What You Made Me Do, after she was trolled into submission following the Kim Kardashian/Kanye West drama. At the time, she was flooded with snake emojis on Twitter, but on the tour she flips the narrative by making the snake a signature image across the section. Underneath the bravado though, there’s vulnerability, as alluded to in her song Delicate, so, a Reputation fragrance calls for something strong and powerful with subtle softness. Luckily, Taylor already picked out just the scent. Beady-eyed viewers of the Taylor’s Miss Americana documentary on Netflix, may have already clocked Tom Ford’s Santal Blush Eau de Parfum among Taylor’s beauty products backstage during her Reputation tour back in 2018. Tom Ford are known for making fragrances that pack a punch, and this comes out fighting with a dark, provocative fistful of aromatic and bitter spices, softened from behind with creamy ylang ylang, jasmine and rose, but the dry-down is all about warm, grounding sandalwood and cedar. It’s a beautiful, complicated, comforting scent that unravels as it goes.

Tom Ford Santal Blush Eau de Parfum, 50ml

6. Folkmore (Folklore and Evermore combined)