RI Beauty Expert: Postcard Perfumes - Fragrances for Rhode Island Seaside Havens

RI Beauty Expert: Postcard Perfumes - Fragrances for Rhode Island Seaside Havens

If you are fortunate enough to decamp at one of Rhode Island's idyllic seaside villages this summer, surely you will want a perfume that captures the essence of your waterfront retreat. Think of scent as a keepsake postcard that will conjure up a time and a place, long after you return to real life.

Jamestown

Craggy and windswept Beavertail overlooks the open Atlantic from Jamestown's southernmost tip. Spray from the sea will dot your exposed arms and mingle with Jo Malone Wood Sage & Sea Salt Cologne, a bracing fresh air scent alive with the atmosphere of rugged cliffs. Next winter by the fire, a spritz will have you reaching for Rebecca and a trip back in time to your own private Manderley. (Nordstrom)

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Block Island

Island life beckons a mere 13 miles from the mainland where an easy-going good mood awaits. Tommy Bahama Island Life for Her is like an effervescent tropical margarita with its sweet mix of peach blossom and vanilla. Later, it will remind you of your summer escape to Rhode Island's own Treasure Island of playful fun. (Macy's)

Watch Hill

A stay in elegant Watch Hill will find you strolling by gardens of fragrant honeysuckle and wisteria. Tall wavy grasses will tease your bare legs as you are led down sandy paths lined with beach plums and wild roses. Generous breezes mingle the florals with scents from the dunes. It's a perfect scene for a pretty rose fragrance with a modern heart. Aerin Rose de Grasse is a reassuring rose mixed with a pinch of unexpected musk. It's as lovely as the favorite museum painting you are compelled to visit over and over and wearing it later at home, and you will imagine poetic Watch Hill over again too. (aerin.com)

Narragansett

Elusive peace comes at last with a warm soft bed of towel and sand beneath you. The symphony of rolling waves and gulls will be the only sound to disturb your reveries. Nothing captures happy beach time fun better than Bobbi Brown Beach Eau de Parfum and no proper list of summer perfumes is ever complete without it. The nostalgic fragrance of sun and surf is perfect for the coves and beach enclaves of sparkling sunshiney Narragansett. When you are swathed in cashmere next winter, you will still be inhaling the beach on your wrist and recalling the days when you splashed and played like a child. (Sephora)

Memories are often stirred by the mysterious power of perfume. Finding the perfect scent to match your favorite Rhode Island sanctuary will be like a postcard sent home to savor. Wish you were here!

Donna Macdonald is a freelance writer who enjoys covering topics of interest to women, especially fragrance, style, beauty. She has also written marketing material for a women's book that hit the New York Times Bestseller list and netted her an up close and personal discussion on the Oprah Winfrey Show. Donna currently writes her own personal blog, alovelyinconsequence.blogspot.com, where she also writes about issues close to a woman's heart. Donna believes that when a woman finds beauty in the world, she will find beauty in herself.