Styles: Solid Perfume

ONCE WE WRAPPED our minds around the concept of solid perfume, we had to admit we kind of liked Lush's scents. (The company's big on saving packaging by turning improbable beauty products into solids — for example, shampoo and bubble bath.)

The vegan, non-animal-tested fragrances ($12, Lush.com) come in recycled metal tins the size of a pot of lip balm, which means we could toss it in our bag and reapply on the go. Which we needed to do; the stuff's decently long-lasting but isn't going to hang on for a full day. We tried two of the waxy formulations: "Silky Underwear" smelled somehow like candles, but "Fever" was pleasantly piquant.

Written by Express contributor Rachel Kaufman