EXCLUSIVE: Millie Bobby Brown talks about her first perfume, planning her wedding and the end of 'Stranger Things'

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Millie Bobby Brown is in her love era. The 19-year-old has the 'This Is Taylor Swift' Spotify playlist and, given how easily Brown's mother talks about the lyrics, it seems like it's not a rare occurrence. Her fiancé Jake Bongiovi, son of Jon Bon Jovi, is by her side, hyping up in photos of her in a pink Versace skirt suit and tending to one of their many dogs, Winnie the Pooh, who is in her own dress and pink stroller.

Famous since the age of 11 thanks to his leading role in "Stranger Things", Brown l She's cruised as a teenager in the public eye and comes across as much older and wiser than her years. She's grown up, she says, and she wants to be true to herself and love who she is. It is therefore the right time for her to launch a perfume based on the idea of ​​celebrating herself and anyone.

"I was never allowed to wear perfume when I was younger", says Brown. "So I'm 19, I've finally started to find who I am and figure out who I am - slowly - and the scent, it's just very feminine. It just feels like the next step.

The 'Stranger Things' star has increasingly become a multihyphenate in recent years, launching the her own Gen Z-focused beauty brand, Florence by Mills Beauty, in 2019 and revealing that she'll be releasing her first book, "Nineteen Steps," in September. The introduction of the fragrance, Wildly Me, marks the next step in the expansion of Florence by Mills. The product will launch with a waitlist on August 14 and will be officially available on the brand's website on August 22.

Wildly Me, produced in collaboration with the perfume house Givaudan, comes in a frosted glass bottle with a purple mark, and prices range from $24 to $65. It has notes of bergamot, sage, violet, purple iris, flowering wisteria and lavender. While sampling different scents, the combination was presented to Brown as a "second skin", which he thought was perfect.

"'Second Skin' captured the essence of exactly what I wanted for the brand. I believe in signs, and I came into this knowing that I wanted my perfume to smell like a person. Either way, it's nostalgic and authentic and real," Brown says. "There was something in the "second skin" that spoke to me. So that was our base and our foundation, and then we built, subtracted, and added. »

Florence was launched as its own beauty brand, and with that in mind, Wildly Me is made with Orpur classified ingredients, labeling certifying its use of natural raw materials.

"It matters to me because as a young person growing up in the industry and growing up in a makeup chair, I never knew what the makeup artist was putting on my skin. And that scared me," Brown says. "My sponsor, Matthew Modine, told me, 'Everything they put on your skin goes into your bloodstream,” and that stuck with me for a very long time. And that got me thinking, "Why don't I go to a store and find a business that I feel like I can wear?"

"So I'm doing Florence by Mills for me and my generation of people who are hesitant to get into the skin care from an early age and beauty from an early age It's not about understanding how to contour or put on false eyelashes, but really understanding why...