Gotta love a beachy-fresh scent

It’s been a good fifty years since Palm Beach maven Lilly Pulitzer started making her fun, bright printed shifts (the patterns were originally conceived to cover up the OJ stains that got on her clothes during her days selling juice from a stand). I’ve gotta admit I love a good Lilly–who can resist a monkey climbing a coconut palm in perky pink and green? Her punchy patterns make you feel joyful when you put one on. You instantly think of summer, vacation and girlish days, when the only care you ever had was when and how you were going to get to the beach. So I’m even happier that in this Jubilee year (as they are calling it with special clothing designs), she’s debuted a fragrance collection that as colorful and uplifting as her shifts, skirts and capris.

The series of three scents sport cheeky, whimsical names–Wink, Beachy and Squeeze–and pretty much sum up the Lilly experience. It’s as if they bottled up all that giddiness you feel when you shimmy into a Lilly shift. Wink is an energetic blend of grapefruit infused with rose and jasmine; Beachy is a heady mix of fragipani, watermelon, salt and seawater; Squeeze is a floral-citrusy fusion of pink grapefruit, lychee, wild rose and lotus blossom.  I’m collecting them all to fit my mood–happy-go-lucky and bright. And with Mother’s Day around the corner, I think a Squeeze may be the perfect gift.