A must for high-quality girls: April’s buzzy new fragrances to add a touch of sophistication to every day

Scent often leaves a memory before an image does. As the seasons change, fragrances quietly shift from rich, intense notes to lighter, more transparent compositions. April’s new releases span airy florals, fresh citrus notes, and warm woods and musks, making it hard not to want a new scent for everyday wear. POPBEE has selected and will continue updating this month’s noteworthy new fragrance launches; perhaps one of them will become the scent you remember this entire season by.

2026 Noteworthy New Fragrance Launch No. 1. YSL BEAUTY Libre Eau de Parfum Lumière Fruity

This year, YSL BEAUTY is breathing new life into its classic Libre fragrance collection with its first fruity scent, Libre Eau de Parfum Lumière Fruity, offering a lighter, brighter interpretation of the brand’s signature free-spirited attitude. It opens with raspberry, bringing a lively fruity note that is sweet and slightly tart. Orange blossom and lavender follow, creating a distinct fruity-floral composition, while creamy coconut milk is added at its heart. Bourbon vanilla and amber round out the scent, balancing freshness with warmth. Lighter and more approachable for everyday wear than previous Libre fragrances, it comes in a berry-red bottle with gold details that continue the brand’s signature sensual, polished aesthetic, making it one of the new fruity fragrances to watch this spring and summer.

• Availability: 50 ml/NT$ 4,950; 90 ml/NT$ 6,800. Available first on the official website on March 20, 2026, followed by a nationwide Taiwan launch on April 1.

2026 Noteworthy New Fragrance Launch No. 2. L’Artisan Parfumeur Noir de Feu Eau de Parfum

To mark its 50th anniversary, French niche fragrance pioneer L’Artisan Parfumeur is releasing Noir de Feu Eau de Parfum. Inspired by ink and letters, it turns unspoken feelings into a letter left on the skin. The fragrance opens with allspice leaf, with a gently warm, spicy quality that recalls the moment a pen touches paper. Notes of ink and leather gradually unfold, followed by patchouli woven with sandalwood and vetiver, leaving a warm, deep woody trail. The overall scent strikes a delicate balance between coolness and softness, reason and emotion. Its deep-red bottle and packaging also echo the fragrance’s mysterious, intimate, emotionally charged mood, like a whisper in the night.

2026 Noteworthy New Fragrance Launch No. 3. Essential Parfums

Since its founding in 2018, French fragrance brand Essential Parfums has centered on a return to essentials, redefining fine fragrance by placing perfumers at the heart of the brand. Working with internationally renowned perfumers including Calice Becker, Quentin Bisch, and Antoine Maisondieu, it creates fragrances that combine artistry, everyday appeal, and sustainability. After officially entering Taiwan through 10/10 HOPE in 2025, the brand has now extended its classic scents into a hair and body mist collection better suited to summer. Its alcohol-free formula combines plant-based glycerin with a delicate scent, providing light, non-sticky hydration for skin and hair. It’s equally appealing worn alone or layered with other fragrances. The release includes three popular scents: Bois Impérial by Quentin Bisch, Nice Bergamote by Antoine Maisondieu, and Muscs Modernes by Calice Becker. With the brand’s clean, modern aesthetic and sleek aluminum bottles, they make a fashionable fragrance option to carry with you.

• Availability: Essential Parfums Hair & Body Mist, 100 ml, NT$ 2,000, now available at 10/10 HOPE.

2026 Noteworthy New Fragrance Launch No. 4. Santa Maria Novella I Giardini Medicei

Santa Maria Novella is adding two new scents to its I Giardini Medicei body collection this year: Acqua and Quercia. They continue the brand’s fragrance language of Renaissance aesthetics woven with imagery from nature. Inspired by the fountains of the Medici gardens, Acqua opens with pear and blends lotus, freesia, and musk into an aquatic floral that is as fresh and pure as a springtime fountain. Quercia draws inspiration from the garden’s time-weathered oak trees, opening with lavender before weaving together vetiver, patchouli, and warm woody notes for a calm, grounded, enveloping woody fragrance. The two additions continue the artistic spirit of the I Giardini Medicei collection while bringing a more delicate fragrance ritual to everyday body care.

• Availability: From April 6 through April 20, brand members who purchase any item from Santa Maria Novella’s I Giardini Medicei body-care collection can enjoy new-launch and Mother’s Day limited-time offers.
• Prices: Eau de parfum, 50 ml/NT$ 6,200 and 100 ml/NT$ 9,200; body lotion, 250 ml/NT$ 2,250; shower gel, 250 ml/NT$ 2,050.

2026 Noteworthy New Fragrance Launch No. 5. Acqua di Parma Buongiorno Italian Lifestyle Collection

Acqua di Parma’s new Buongiorno Italian Lifestyle Collection reinterprets the Italian way of life envisioned by the brand through scents that sit closer to the skin. Created jointly by perfumers Fabrice Pellegrin and Olivia Giacobetti, the collection combines soft musks, warm woods, and bright, delicate notes to create a subtle, intimate, layered olfactory impression, emphasizing the way fragrance naturally blends with the wearer’s own scent. The collection comprises five eau de parfums, exploring the sensory beauty of everyday moments in a lighter, more restrained way. The bottles continue Acqua di Parma’s classic design language, pairing ribbed glass with brightly colored caps for a visual style that feels rooted in heritage yet contemporary, making the collection one of this year’s fine-fragrance releases to watch.

• Availability: Eau de parfum, 100 ml/NT$ 11,800; Buongiorno Miniature Gift Set, 5 x 10 ml/NT$ 7,500.

2026 Noteworthy New Fragrance Launch No. 6. MALIN+GOETZ x BRAIN DEAD Spring 2026 Fragrance Collaboration

New York fragrance brand MALIN+GOETZ has once again teamed up with Los Angeles streetwear design brand BRAIN DEAD for a Spring 2026 collaboration, continuing their cross-disciplinary exploration of scent and visual language. Centered on the brand’s signature Leather fragrance, the collection turns cofounder Andrew Goetz’s personal memories of leather into an olfactory narrative. Delicate florals, warm woods, and nuanced leather notes create a layered profile somewhere between retro and contemporary. The new limited-edition collection includes a roll-on fragrance oil, scented candle, and collectible oversized candle. BRAIN DEAD’s signature experimental, surreal graphics give the classic scent a visually striking new look. From the fragrance to the containers, the collection emphasizes design that can continue to be used, allowing fragrance to become more than a scent and instead a stylish object in the home.

2026 Noteworthy New Fragrance Launch No. 7. Jo Malone London: LE SSERAFIM’s Kazuha and Yunjin’s Fragrance Picks

While they aren’t newly launched scents, Jo Malone London recently partnered with K-pop girl group LE SSERAFIM members Kazuha Nakamura and Huh Yunjin to reinterpret the brand’s classic English Pear collection, bringing these two popular fragrances back into the conversation. Inspired by English Williams pears ripened to perfection in a British orchard, the collection turns their crisp sweetness into a poetic, airy scent impression. English Pear & Freesia offers a more classic, elegant fruity-floral profile, while English Pear & Sweet Pea is a little lighter and softer, with a fresh sweetness. Interpreted through the two members’ distinct personalities, this already iconic fragrance pairing has been given renewed stylistic associations and attention.

2026 Noteworthy New Fragrance Launch No. 8. TAMBURINS Introduces Its New Hair Collection and Summer Tails Fragrance

Hair Perfume (80 ml) / Hair Oil (50 ml)

TAMBURINS is introducing its new Hair Collection, extending its fragrance concept into hair care for the first time with a product line that combines scent and care. The collection includes three key products: Hair Perfume hair mist, Hair Oil scented hair oil, and Hair Perfume Scrunchie. The fragrance moves naturally with the hair, leaving a delicate, lasting trail while giving it hydrated shine.

Perfume Summer Tails

The Hair Perfume and Hair Oil are available in four scents: the new Summer Tails, along with the brand’s classic Chamo, Evening Glow, and White Darjeeling. The Hair Perfume Scrunchie is offered only in Summer Tails and comes in 21 designs, continuing the brand’s creative exploration of turning fragrance into something wearable.

The new Summer Tails captures the delicate atmosphere of late summer. Lily of the valley drifts among fresh green leaves, gently unfolding on a breeze that still carries warmth. Geranium’s soft sweetness and anise’s subtle spice create a bright, lively composition, before cedarwood and patchouli bring it to a grounded woody close, leaving an elegant, leather-like trail on the skin. Summer Tails is also available as a perfume in 50 ml and 11 ml sizes.

2026 Noteworthy New Fragrance Launch No. 9. Guerlain Muguet Lucky Spring Eau de Toilette Silken Embroidered Bee Bottle

Guerlain has once again given its classic Muguet Lucky Spring Eau de Toilette a new springtime look through an artistic collaboration. The 2026 limited-edition Silken Embroidered Bee Bottle was handcrafted by Paris haute couture embroidery atelier Ateliers Vermont. Its silk taffeta bow is carefully shaped using traditional Japanese tie-dye techniques, with its folds and bindings creating light and shadow that flow like a spring breeze. The bottle is further adorned with hand-embroidered lily-of-the-valley bells, whose pearly shimmer resembles spring blossoms quietly coming into bloom.

Inside, the bottle holds a touch of mythic floral freshness. Jasmine and rose intertwine in a soft, pure floral rhythm, while green notes blend with a honey-like warmth to create the light atmosphere of morning sunlight falling across a garden, offering fragrance lovers a most poetic springtime ritual.

2026 Noteworthy New Fragrance Launch No. 10. Guerlain’s New Art de Vivre Home Collection

Guerlain’s new Art de Vivre Home Collection extends the brand’s most iconic signature, Guerlinade, into everyday living spaces. Fragrance Creative Director Delphine Jelk personally reinterprets six classic ingredients—bergamot, rose, jasmine, iris, vanilla, and tonka bean—in a high-concentration fragrance format, transforming a scent signature associated with fine perfume into a home style that can be smelled.