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VIOLETTE_FR’s Balm Amour treats lip prep like a beauty ritual: a cooling ceramic applicator glides over a waterless, cushiony formula built with peptides, plant-based actives, and vitamin E. The clear balm is designed to soften, smooth, and revive shine—an elegant late-summer bridge between skincare and the season’s sheer lip color.

Summer’s most convincing scent story is less postcard, more skin: Phlur’s Endless Summer duo pairs Island Swim’s bright calamansi, coconut, and marine woods with Beach Skin’s salted tiare, bergamot, and creamy sandalwood. Mist one, layer both, and let the fragrance shift with the heat—from poolside clarity to the soft glow of late afternoon.

Fifteen years of backstage instinct distilled into a refillable object: one primer, one whipped color, a system meant to be topped up rather than replaced. For a debut line, it arrives with unusual discipline.

Perfumer Frank Voelkl translates Liberty's archival Eden's Awakening print into scent — fig, cypress, and clove opening onto rose centifolia and patchouli, settling into suede, vetiver, and cedarwood — with the print itself wrapping the bottle's cap.