It’s hard to know when to step out of girlhood and into womanhood. When should you stop using your mom’s high-end skin care and start building a collection of your own? It’s a scary thought, but let’s be real—at some point, it stops being cute to wear pimple patches. Luckily, French luxury brand Sisley has come to the rescue. Their Black Rose Collection is a great first step for getting your life together. With active Black Baccara ingredients, each product in the collection helps prevent aging before it even begins. Its newest member is the Black Rose Concentrate, a hyaluronic-acid-and-antioxidant–filled serum that leaves skin glowy and hydrated while making it look so smooth that you’ll never want to run out. ($320, sisley-paris.com) —Jeanne Malle

What did a late night at New York City’s Nell’s in 1992 smell like? Beer, cigarettes, and sweat, in all likelihood. Discothèque’s Lola at Coat Check perfume evokes the legendary hangout of everyone from Andy Warhol and Bob Dylan to Eddie Murphy and the Notorious B.I.G., but with notes of sandalwood and white chocolate. A luxury fragrance brand founded between Los Angeles and London, Discothèque first established itself with superlative night-club-themed scented candles, such as Manchester’s Haçienda and Mykonos’s Remezzo, and now does perfumes. Call for a Good Time, inspired by Tokyo’s Womb circa the year 2000, has become my wife’s go-to. ($175, discothequefragrances.com) —Spike Carter

For the city-bound Angeleno, a swift retreat to the Malibu Beach Inn is less a day trip than a nervous-system reset. Perched over the shoreline, the hotel’s Carbon Beach Club serves as the ultimate lunchtime sanctuary. Settle onto the oceanfront terrace under a shady umbrella to enjoy a chilled Maine-lobster roll or the crisp Little Gem Caesar salad, the Pacific’s roar acting as a calming soundtrack. By the time you navigate the interminable return crawl on the Pacific Coast Highway, you may find yourself actually having the opposite of road rage. (malibubeachinn.com) —Rachel LeSage

Princess Diana’s go-to wristwatch, the dainty Cartier Tank Française, turns 30 this year. But Louis Cartier’s Tank design remains timeless—just ask other longtime devotees like Kate Moss and Victoria Beckham. Among the classic timepieces, we personally love this sleek stainless-steel band with blued-steel, sword-shaped hands. ($4,300; cartier.com) —Maggie Turner

Since 2011, Miu Miu has partnered with today’s most distinctive female filmmakers around the globe to create Women’s Tales, the longest-running commissioning platform of female-led short films. The latest “Tale”—and the 31st commissioned—“Discipline,” directed by Mona Fastvold and choreographed by Celia Rowlson Hall, combines the arts of puppetry, dance, and fashion to tell the story of girls coming of age in a Northern Italian boarding school. “This outlet that Ms. Prada and the whole brand gives to female filmmakers shouldn’t feel so rare, but it is, and continues to be,” says actress Amanda Seyfried, who stars in the short. “It’s just a sacred space … and I love that they celebrate it every year.” (miumiu.com) —Gracie Wiener

Creative-nonfiction pioneer John McPhee ranges so widely in his reporting—canoes, swamps, gold miners—that John McPhee: Encounters in Wild America is the result. Edited by The New Yorker’s David Remnick, the volume shrewdly focuses on what McPhee appears to love doing the most: spending time in the wilderness. Whether it be the Pine Barrens of New Jersey or the rivers of Maine and Alaska, McPhee is always in the company of locals whom he profiles as sharply as the terrain. ($45, penguinrandomhouse.com) —Carolina de Armas