While last year saw the fragrance world going wild for barely-there skin scents, rain scents inspired by nature and lightweight perfume mists, this year looks set to mark a rather dramatic departure in the form of 2024’s biggest TikTok trend so far; the mob wife aesthetic. Inspired by the hedonistic glamour and maximalist beauty looks of the headstrong women that we’ve seen in everything from Scarface to the Sopranos—we’re talking faux-fur coats, cobalt blue eyeshadows, enormous blowouts and more animal print than you ever knew existed—the mob wife movement is a playful shift from the clean-girl aesthetic that has dominated of late.
However, while there are already countless think pieces and trend stories breaking down the appeal of the mob wife wardrobe, I wondered what a mob wife might actually smell like. I’ve spent hours trawling the internet for the key to what some of our favourite fictional mafia women might have been spritzing to show off their expensive taste, but while I’m yet to come up with much concrete evidence (besides a bottle of Guerlain’s iconic Shalimar spotted on mob wife Karen Hill’s dresser in Goodfellas) I have a pretty good idea of what I imagine they’d wear.
