
Photo courtesy of Heretic Parfum and Kelia Moniz
The Clean Perfume Holiday Shopping List
A special something that smells incredible—a chic new perfume, the most beautiful candle, or a jasmine-inflected hair oil—makes a memorable, charming, and sophisticated gift. Made clean, without the potentially harmful-to-health hormone disruptors, carcinogens, and irritants allowed in conventional fragrances, every item on our shopping list this year is enchanting enough that we find it hard to resist doing a little shopping for ourselves along the way (hello, Dirty Chai…hi, Shiso…bonjour, Bois de Balincourt).
The Top 5 Make-the-Best-Presents Perfumes
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Fresh and Sexy
A perfume of cool air, pale sun, and new life unfurling on the forest floor.
goop Beauty Eau de Parfum:
Edition 02 – Shiso goop, $165SHOP NOW -
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Chic and Beachy
Warming coconut flesh mixed with sandalwood, cedar, and vanilla for a sophisticated, seductive version of a beachy scent.
Heretic Dirty Coconut (50ML / 1.7OZ) goop, $165SHOP NOW -
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Exquisite Floral
Full-bloom flowers—French tuberose, jasmine, rose, ylang-ylang, orange blossom, and linden—mixed with the scent of crushed stems, pink pepper, and ambrette.
Heretic Florgasm goop, $165SHOP NOW -
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Warm, Creamy, and Spicy
A gorgeous set that pairs a fresh, peppery perfume with an equally rich loose-leaf tea.
Heretic Dirty Chai Set goop, $75SHOP NOW
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Smoky and Sensual
A perfume of cypress smoke, snow, and a sexy sense of quiet.
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goop Beauty Eau de Parfum: Edition 03 – Incense goop, $165SHOP NOW
The Top 3 Smaller-Size (and Easier-Priced) Scents
Sexiest Hair Oil on the Planet
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Part frizz-smoothing serum, part gorgeous jasmine-inflected hair perfume, this leaves your hair shiny and smelling fantastic.
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Ranavat Fortifying Hair Serum goop, $70SHOP NOW
This Body Wash Smells So Good,
It Qualifies as Perfume
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There’s nothing like stepping into a hot shower and lathering on this gorgeously scented body wash to transform your shower into a relaxing out-of-body experience. It leaves skin soft, moisturized, and smelling subtly of cedar, sandalwood, and bergamot. And we love the chic, gigantic pump bottle.
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Sangre de Fruta Garden of Earthly Delights Body Wash goop, $48SHOP NOW
Some People Buy This Skin-Loving
Moisturizer Just for the Citrusy Scent
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This rich, luxurious, clinically tested supercream for the body leaves skin ultramoisturized, silky-soft, smooth, firm, and toned—and the subtle scent is almost as addictive as the way it makes our skin feel.
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goop Beauty GOOPGENES Nourishing
Repair Body Butter goop, $55/$50 with subscriptionSHOP NOW
These Body Oils Double as Perfume
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Tropically Floral
One of the prettiest scents ever, this is amazing as body oil but also incredible as a perfume.
Balmyard Beauty Romantic Call Body Oil goop, $82SHOP NOW -
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Citrusy and Herbaceous
Smooth on this restorative orange-flower-and-acacia-scented oil and it sinks in instantly for supple, plumped skin.
Seed to Skin The Serenity goop, $162SHOP NOW
The Perfume That Repels Insects
and Attracts People
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A silky cedar-cinnamon-and-geranium-scented gel you will love and bugs will hate, from acclaimed clean perfumer Douglas Little.
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Heretic Entomologist goop, $45SHOP NOW
5 Favorite Scented Candles
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Named for a Mauritian nature preserve and brimming with the tart yet dusky notes of citrus and spice.
Maison Louis Marie No.04 Bois de
Balincourt goop, $36SHOP NOW -
A scent of spirit-clearing smoke, mystical resins, forbidden spices, and holy woods—interpreted in a candle, this scent is just magic.
goop Beauty Scented Candle:
Edition 03 – Incense goop, $72SHOP NOW -
A tart, tantalizing fragrance made with pink grapefruit, neroli, and ripe cassis berries.
goop x Heretic This Smells Like My Orgasm Candle goop, $75SHOP NOW -
Delicate and floral with rich, woody undertones.
Maison Louis Marie No. 05 Kandilli goop, $36SHOP NOW
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A gorgeous lavender scent and a candle that turns into a massage and body oil, this smells (and feels) like heaven.
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NEOM Perfect Night’s Sleep Intensive Skin Treatment Candle goop, $46SHOP NOW