Let us be clear about what Glastonbury actually is. It is in a field in Somerset. It will rain on at least one of the days, possibly the one you had outfit plans for. There is a queue for everything. Someone in the adjacent tent will play a guitar at 1am and it will not be the good kind of acoustic set. And you are going to have the time of your life. This is the great contradiction at the heart of the British summer festival: the conditions are objectively rough and the memories are brilliant.

Fragrance is not the first thing most people pack. It falls somewhere below dry shampoo, wellies, and the extremely important decision about which waterproof to
bring (the wrong one, always). But here is what most people miss: the right scent does something nothing else in your festival bag can do. It makes you feel like yourself. On day three, when the dry shampoo is doing what it can and the welly socks are more of a philosophical commitment than a comfort choice, smelling good is the one small thing that costs almost nothing and makes an unreasonable amount of difference.

There is also a very practical case for packing a luxury inspired perfume rather than your actual bottle of whatever lives in the glass cabinet at home. The inspired version performs at the same level, takes up almost no space, costs twenty quid or so, and if something goes wrong at the campsite, nothing important has been lost. Here are the Scentspired bestsellers worth packing this summer.

You are not going to be standing in front of a mirror. That is fine. It's probably for the
best to be fair. Wrists and neck. Inside of the elbow if you are feeling ambitious.
These pulse points generate heat throughout the day and heat is what keeps a fragrance going, which matters when you are covering six miles of field trying to catch the right set. One thing: do not spray it on your clothes. Fabric does not do what skin does. On clothes, you get the smell but none of the warmth or development that makes a good women's fragrance worth wearing.