Àstrid Bergès-Frisbey on the 4 Beauty Staples She Won’t Board the Plane Without

On a rainy Tuesday morning in Paris, Àstrid Bergès-Frisbey doesn’t know whether she’s coming or going. “I spend most of my time changing airplane tickets,” laughs the Spanish-French actress, who has just arrived in town to celebrate her role as the face of Valentino’s new perfume at a party being thrown by the fashion house that night—and suddenly finds herself hard-pressed to remember what city she’s headed to next. Currently on break from filming Guy Ritchie’s forthcoming Knights of the Round Table: King Arthur, an epic adventure tale in which she takes on the role of Guinevere, she is “always on a flight somewhere,” she admits with a good-natured tilt of the head.

Born in Barcelona and raised in the French countryside, Bergès-Frisbey might seem an unlikely choice to play that most quintessentially British of heroines, but her globe-trotting lifestyle seems to have made her a quick study for the part. Already fluent in Catalan, Spanish, and French, she first learned English in preparation for her role in 2011’s Pirates of the Caribbean: On Stranger Tides; these days, she speaks the language with a convincing British lilt, which, coupled with her fine-boned beauty, voluptuous features, and supernaturally refined skin, certainly seems capable of wreaking romantic havoc in Camelot.

So then, what’s the secret to looking rested in the face of near-constant jet lag, whether navigating medieval courtship in HD or prepping for the 48-hour party schedule in the City of Light? “Embryolisse face cream—oh, and my latest discovery is Bioderma Matricium. You order it at the pharmacy and it comes in these individual doses, which are great for travel because they don’t weigh anything. It’s natural and amazing and completely protects your skin,” she says of the French miracle serum. A few years ago, she adds, a family member gave her a jade face roller as a gift. “You put it in the refrigerator, and it calms everything down when you get an allergy—but it really wakes up your skin, too.”

Always in her carry-on bag these days, she says, is a bottle of Valentino’s new Donna perfume, a bergamot-, rose-, iris-, and leather-spiked blend that arrives in a blush pink bottle covered in Rockstud crystals. After meeting with designers Pierpaolo Piccioli and Maria Grazia Chiuri at their Paris design studio last year—an interlude that cemented Bergès-Frisbey’s recent turn in the house’s new black-and-white campaign shot by Steven Meisel— she began wearing it daily: “It’s classic and elegant, the kind of thing that, even if you’ve never smelled it before, is somehow a little bit familiar.” Of remaining faithful to one perfume over the years, she says, “I see a fragrance as something you wear for your entire life.”

Step into any room where Bergès-Frisbey has set down temporary roots and you may smell her other olfactory signature. When in New York, she says, “I go to the farmers’ market in Union Square and buy enough organic lavender for the whole year, then I dry it and burn it as incense.” Because for a globe-trotting citizen of the world, nothing smells better than home.

Valentino Donna Perfume launches online today at nordstrom.com

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