Cherry Marmelade Eau de Parfum Roll-On 15ml

A roll-on is a different habit from a spray, and Roger and Gallet Cherry Marmelade Eau de Parfum Roll-On 15ml is built around that difference.

The scent makes no secret of what it is. Cherry comes first, and it is the sweet, syrupy, slightly almondy kind rather than a fresh fruit; raspberry jelly follows, tart and sugary at once, with the wobbling sweetness the name suggests; and praline finishes it, nutty and caramelised and warm. Three materials, all of them sweet, and there is nothing dry or bitter anywhere in the arrangement to balance them out. This is a dessert of a fragrance and it is entirely unapologetic. The format controls how much of it you get. A roll-on is applied rather than sprayed, which means it goes exactly where you put it and nowhere else, on the wrists, the inside of the elbows or the base of the throat, and it does not drift across a room as you apply it in the way that an atomiser always does. With a scent this sweet, that is a genuine advantage.

Eau de parfum concentration means it will last on skin for several hours, close in and warm, and the 15ml size fits a pocket or a small bag for topping up through the day.

Roger and Gallet, founded in Paris in 1862 by two brothers in law who had bought a perfumery of 1806 along with the cologne it made, is known for its soap and its cologne quite as much as for its perfume. The round soap it brought out in 1879 was the first scented throughout rather than on the surface alone, the firm took new Paris premises on the rue du Faubourg Saint-Honore in 1932, and body and bath products have been a large part of the trade since the 1950s.