If you’re seeking to balance sultry with chic, you’d do well to consider Elizabeth Arden’s Always Red ($85). Red plum and passion fruit cleanse the olfactory palette to begin with, and a tinge of blood orange carries the scent into its ultimate iteration: an even blend of tangy red amber, bracing mahogany and sweet praline and rose. This complex concoction is exotic and best left to those with enough personality to balance its own brazen scent; just like the colour of its bottle, it’s best suited to those who are as daring and audacious as a black-to-red ombre.
