What perfume does Meghan Markle wear? From Princess Diana’s love of Dior to Queen Elizabeth’s classic Guerlain pick – 5 royals and their favourite scents

Aug 22 , 2021

Princess Diana, Meghan Markle, and their favourite scents. Photos: Getty Images, Dior, Reuters, Jo Malone

Meghan Markle’s a Jo Malone girl and Kate Middleton wore Illuminum to her wedding, while Princess Beatrice was gifted a bespoke fragrance from Paris named after her

Floris London, a perfumer dating back to 1730, created the scents Queen Elizabeth and Meghan Markle wore on their wedding days – and even has a royal warrant

It was Christian Dior who famously said, “A woman’s perfume tells more about her than her handwriting.” For centuries, fragrances have defined the wearer, and this holds as true for members of the British royal family as it does for anyone.

The finer points of the Windsor clan’s beauty regimen are often kept top secret, but in the modern age, we have come to learn many elements of their private lives – including the scents they can’t live without.

Meghan Markle

The Duchess of Sussex has spoken quite a bit in the past about her love of perfumes. She told The Express in an interview: “Fragrance is my favourite thing. So much so that if I leave the house and I don’t put any on, I’ll turn around and go back home.” She has spoken of her favourites too, admitting to alternating between several at times.

Jo Malone Wood Sage & Sea Salt is a Meghan Markle favourite, as is the brand’s Wild Bluebell scent. Photo: @jomalonelondon/Instagram

A few of her faves include Oribe Côte d’Azur Eau de Parfum and Jo Malone’s Wild Bluebell and Wood Sage & Sea Salt colognes. For her wedding day, she approached centuries-old perfumer Floris London to create a bespoke fragrance that is said to have been inspired by “the sea breeze, sunshine and water”.

Kate Middleton

For Kate’s signature wedding day fragrance, Clarence House confirmed that she had opted to wear White Gardenia Petals by UK perfumer Illuminum, who describes the scent on their website as a “delicate, refined scent, the top note of lily evokes summer ambience, whilst heart notes of gardenia, ylang-ylang and jasmine are sumptuous and feminine”.