Endless Summer

With wildfire smoke and pollutants everywhere, including our skin, cleanliness is especially desirable now. This new foam lathers extravagantly and sweeps away sunscreen, makeup, and who knows what swiftly, without a trace of tightness.

Is there such a thing as summer lips? If so, this gloss is the ticket: moist but not sticky, each gently tinted shade has its own particular scent created by no less than Christine Nagel, the Hermès perfumer. Fancy!

This tingly mask has AHAs to exfoliate lips and gobs of hyaluronic acid and jojoba oil to keep things plump and luscious. To me, it smells less like a mojito and more like a tropical, floral cocktail.

This summer, everyone woke up and discovered pistachio—in their ice cream, in their pasta, and in their fine fragrances. D.S. & Durga made theirs on a whim, and it’s an ode to the sweet desserts you find in Sicily with a bright red cherry on top.

If, back in your foolish youth, you marinated in baby oil as you “lay out” at the beach (yes, me), you might get a fear-laced thrill at the sight of this bottle. It looks, smells, and feels like classic baby oil, but it has SPF 30 to gloss skin with no scorching aftermath.

I have no interest in “glass skin” and other nonsense terms, but that’s what popped in my head when I rubbed on this balm. A fiery peach shimmer emerged on my cheeks as if I were a heroine in a Thomas Hardy novel.

This wonderous bullet of balmy color creates a bouche mordue, just-bitten lips (merci, DuoLingo). This most flattering flush is held in a richly moisturizing formula for a sensually blurry color.

With its handsome shape and gold-tipped handle, this takes the detangling brush up a notch, style-wise. The nub-less bristles work on wet or dry hair, colored or natural, fine, fragile, coarse, extensions—all the hair. It also stimulates the scalp delightfully.

Yes, this serum from hairstylist Mara Roszak moisturizes, detangles, and minimizes frizz. Yes, it leaves hair as shiny as a new penny (NB for anyone under 30: a penny is a coin no one uses anymore). The scent is a happy surprise: unimaginably enticing, like a fine perfume.

There is nothing as refreshing as summer rain on a hot day, and this candle captures that relief with basil and spearmint and the wet-leaf smell of fig and grasses.

If you went to the Amalfi Coast this summer with everyone else, congratulations. If not, spritz on this fragrance. It captures the scent of the sea, the lemon trees, and the bougainvillea that mingle as you climb the hill after a day Instagramming at La Fontelina.

For the sun-averse and style-confident, here’s a hat! It’s a like wearing a golf umbrella, but less obnoxiously. Jacquemus has made a tempting niche in the sun-hat sector, especially with his fetching array of buckets.

This charmingly dégagé tote has long leather handles to sit neatly over your shoulder and a gold YSL clasp to give it a kick. Imagine Catherine Deneuve filling it with flowers at the Place des Lices.

As you’d expect from The Row, these sandals are minimalist perfection. A strip of leather no wider than a licorice whip wraps delicately around the foot and ankle. The heel is set in slightly to give the shoes a little swagger. It’s as bare as feet can be.

This serum/illuminator/sunscreen hybrid is the best of all worlds. It feels and looks nothing like a sunscreen yet it relies, incongruously, entirely on fine zinc oxide. It also has natural oils, peptides, and a quiet tint to give skin a hit of warmth.

A summer filled with sunscreen, sun, chlorine, salt water, and dodging sharks can leave skin sensitive, red, and annoyed. This serum soothes all that quickly with five drops massaged languorously on bare skin.

This cream—loaded with seaweed—feels like a cool drink of water. It’s so lightweight, you might think it’s doing practically nothing for your skin. But it’s a sneaky moisturizer that claims to hydrate for over 72 hours.

The French have been using this ointment for generations to soothe sunburns, bites, rashes, and other sources of summertime sadness. Get the big tube and slather it on everyone you know.