August's Best Beauty Buys

Garden of Delights

A rose is a rose, etc., unless you mix it with blackberry, neroli, and ebony woods to get the boldly sexy fragrance Gold Rush (left); or jasmine, gardenia, and vanilla to come up with the romantic Shakespeare in Love (right); or white peony, osmanthus, and white musk for the sophisticated Iced White (center). This trio, from A Dozen Roses, is bloomin' beautiful.

A Dozen Roses, $95 each for 3.4 ounces; neimanmarcus.com