Under Your Skin – A Summer to Keep
Rhubarb from the garden, roses after dark and the first cold swim of the day. Under Your Skin turns familiar moments from a Swedish summer into four fragrances made to wear close to the skin.
Some of the smells we remember most come from ordinary days. Picking tomatoes in the garden. Eating something sweet on the way home. Walking down to the sea before anyone else is awake.
These small moments are the starting point for Under Your Skin’s first fragrance collection. Inspired by Sweden’s west coast and the village of Torekov, the four scents each explore a different part of summer, from its green gardens to its cold water.
Developed in Paris by two sisters, both trained perfumers, and bottled in Sweden, the collection comes as alcohol free perfume oils in small bottles with a roller applicator. All four are unisex and designed to be worn close to the skin.
Swedish Candy
The name might suggest a bag of pick and mix, but the inspiration begins in the garden: freshly picked rhubarb dipped in sugar.
Wild rhubarb and redcurrant bring a sharp, fruity sweetness, while cedar and moss give the fragrance a woody base. The idea is playful and familiar, with something a little more grown up beneath the sugar.
She Wore Rose
There is something about roses and long summer evenings that makes sense together. She Wore Rose takes its cue from a crown of wild roses worn late into the night.
Bergamot and pear introduce the fragrance, followed by Turkish rose, sandalwood and musk. Built around flowers, fruit and soft woods, it offers a different expression of summer from the greener scents in the collection.
Garden Skin
For anyone who loves the smell of tomato plants, Garden Skin may be the most intriguing of the four.
Inspired by the scent left on your hands after an afternoon in the garden, it brings together lemon, lime and petitgrain with tomato leaf and freesia. Cedar, sandalwood and musk form the base. Think warm greenhouses, bare feet on the grass and tomatoes eaten before they reach the kitchen.
Cold Plunge
Cold Plunge draws on an early morning swim in Torekov, capturing the anticipation of stepping off the jetty into cold water.
Grapefruit, bergamot and rosemary meet sea salt and mineral musk. Its inspiration is easy to picture: a dressing gown left on the boards, a quiet sea and the sudden feeling of being fully awake.
Beyond the memories, Under Your Skin puts a focus on what goes into each bottle. The brand lists the full fragrance ingredients on its labels and says each has been reviewed by a toxicologist and a dermatologist.
Four different ways to carry a little summer into the rest of the year.
Under Your Skin Fine Fragrance Oils, SEK 750 for 15 ml each.
