Summer Fridays
Sunlit Vanilla
Sunlit Vanilla is the first perfume from Summer Fridays, the California skincare brand known for its lip balms. Launched in March 2026, the eau de parfum opens on bergamot, moves to caramel and coconut, and rests on vanilla, a creamy musk, tonka bean and amber. The house sees it as a sunlit vanilla, deliberately far from bakery notes.
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Summer Fridays, a skincare brand founded in California by Marianna Hewitt and Lauren Ireland, signs its first eau de parfum with Sunlit Vanilla, put on sale in March 2026. Until then it had only offered a roll-on perfume oil, in limited edition, in 2021.
The founders link the perfume to their vanilla lip balm, launched in 2020, whose gourmand versions showed their audience's taste for these notes. A trio of limited-edition fragrances taught them that their public was waiting for the classic experience of a real bottle.
The house describes a sunlit vanilla, designed for year-round wear: fresh vanilla ice cream under the sun, veiled with a lightly caramelized crème brûlée. It rejected a bakery-style vanilla and wanted to evoke skin warmed by the sun at golden hour.
In France, Sunlit Vanilla arrives at Sephora at the end of March 2026, in 10 and 50 milliliters. The American beauty press made it one of the most talked-about perfume launches of the spring.
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