Spring Has Sprung With ELLE Beauty’s It List
Skip into the season with March’s crop of beauty releases.
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As we emerge from winter hibernation (read: sweat pants and Netflix binges in our apartment), the beauty world greets us with a harvest of gorgeous new products—just in time to make us feel a little better about April showers. There’s something for softer skin, glowier cheekbones, and fragrances from Loewe, Celine, and Diptyque—all of which are sure to make your mood spring forward. The ELLE Beauty team took some time to test everything out, and here are the mini reviews of our favorite products.
Read on for our thoughts on a fruit-inspired candle, a perfume for paper lovers, a bar soap that doubles as a spa-like shaving lotion, the fanciest compact in the world, a perfume so solid that it will make the chicest paperweight, and a French face oil that can also be used as a highlighter.
A version of this story appears in the March 2023 issue of ELLE.
“I feel very grown-up to have graduated from the cucumber melon body lotion of my youth to this elegant candle. It’s a nose-tingling scent that smells like fresh cucumber water.”—Kathleen Hou, beauty director
“If you love that post-shower freshness, you can scent-layer this after bath time. The floral notes smell as if you’ve just been rolling around in a field of flowers!”—Danielle James, digital beauty director
“Tumblr star-turned-French It girl Jeanne Damas’ clothing line now includes skin care. The face oil contains vitamins C and E to give skin an instant glow; Damas taught me to dab it on my cheekbones post-makeup for the perfect dewy highlighter.”—Margaux Anbouba, beauty editor
“Justice for the humble bar soap! Not only does this smell like an earthy spa, but it hydrates while lathering, and gave me a smoother shave than I’ve achieved in a long time.”—Tatjana Freund, beauty e-commerce writer
“My cheekbones can now wear Hermès, thanks to this softly illuminating face powder.”—K.H.
“Shaped like Celine’s signature Triomphe, this trio of perfumed ceramics comes in two scents, including my favorite, Parade. I have each of them in a different room so that my entire home smells divine.”—M.A.
“This moisturizer has been part of my nighttime routine because of the incredible hydrating Miracle Broth inside. It’s been reformulated for the first time in a decade, and I’m even more in love with it.”—Nina Garcia, editor-in-chief
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