Not going out this month? Elevate your night in with the best bath salts that smell like luxury perfumes

Soapsmith is a lovely London-based brand. The generous tubs of bath salt are adorned with pretty designs and take inspiration from areas of the city they call home—think Camden Town and Bloomsbury. With coconut milk and dead sea salt, the Camden Town scent is bergamot-y and fresh. These salts aren’t for you if you dislike floral bits floating in the tub with you, but trust me that they feel super luxurious. Complete with a wooden scoop, this is a truly lovely user experience.

In a word, these Wildsmith Skin salts smell absolutely exquisite. You know that properly relaxing, spa type of scent that fills your nostrils and flicks some kind of chill switch in your brain? It’s that—all chamomile, cedarwood and linden, plus lavender, rose absolute and rose geranium leaf oils. The tub is seriously weighty and, like Soapsmith’s, filled with a generous 500g of salts to keep you going for a while (which is good news given the price). You only need a small dose per bath, too.

Bath salts are often linked to helping to revive tired muscles post-exercise, and that’s certainly the aim of ESPA’s aptly named Fitness Bath Salts, which are fortified with magnesium and dead sea salt. There’s a lot going on here, in a good way—namely eucalyptus, clove, lavender, arnica and comfrey. Despite all this, it’s not too punchy; overall the scent is slightly citrusy and very uplifting. These are perfect for those who've decided to exercise more this month.

Though primarily a make-up brand, the best VIEVE products also includes a gorgeous range of bath and body products appropriately named “bathleisure”. Housed in a small sack, the finely milled plaster-coloured bath salts, made with both Himalayan and Epsom salts, make your bath a pretty soft shade of pink. Then there’s the signature scent of amber, neroli and santal—reminiscent of luxury perfumes. Gorgeous.

If you’re a pre-bedtime bather, you can do worse than put your faith in This Works and its famous Deep Sleep range. The good news is that they’ve poured this scent into a tub of salts for your bathing pleasure with that signature lavender and chamomile aroma. Now, of course, no tub of bath salts is going to magically send you to sleep (that’d be a bit of a hazard in the bath, come to think of it), but this certainly goes some way to get you into a more relaxed headspace to help promote a good night of rest.

Beauty editors love Mirror Water, a gorgeous bath and body brand founded by content creator Estée Lalonde. In a chic-looking jar, the chunky salts contain both Himalayan salt and magnesium. Its fresh and woody scent marries cedarwood with spruce, bergamot and vetiver (inspired by the point in nature where forests meet the sea, FYI). In a word, I’d describe them as grounding—not to mention that the packaging is rather chic, too.

A mainstay of the bath and bodycare markets, it’s not surprising that Molton Brown has some bath salts among its lovely scented hand washes and body lotions. The Coastal Cypress & Sea Fennel scent is super fresh—ideal if you want your bath to revive you—with cardamom, bergamot, fig leaves and cedarwood at play, too. It doesn’t take a lot of them to really scent your bath and room with that calming-yet-uplifting aroma so, combined with the fact that they’re just over £22, they’re decent value, too.

Bramley is a lovely homegrown brand that puts sustainable and natural ingredients at the forefront, and they just so happen to make a lovely pot of bath salts, too. Balanced out with geranium and lavender, the nice hit of mint really comes through to help lift the senses. Even at 250g, this little tub of crystals is also fairly reasonably priced compared to some more luxurious brands’ options, so it makes a nice treat purchase or gift that won’t hit your bank balance too hard.