Sydney Sweeney shares how she influences’ Cassie’s beauty routine, her skincare favorites, and more in conversation with VF.

The Emmy-nominated actor is in a globe-trotting frame of mind, with a new role fronting Giorgio Armani’s My Way Parfum. Here, she discusses how Euphoria’s Cassie would wear perfume, the skin care savior in her suitcase, and how a perfect day smells.

I joke that I half-expected her to trot out some Italian, given the subject of the afternoon’s conversation. Today, the 25-year-old joins Giorgio Armani as the face of its latest fragrance, My Way Parfum, putting her in the company of such fellow ambassadors

Adria Arjona.January 30). It’s a slogan, she says, “but it also means so much, and it could inspire so much.”Euphoriaalso got a nod.) If the Nirvana generation seemed to know what teen spirit smelled like, what does Sweeney make of it? “I don’t really think that scent correlates with age,” she muses, shrugging off the idea that demographics shape a perfume—here, a Carlos Benaïm creation that blends iris pallida (powdery, with depth), Indian tuberous (bright and enveloping), Calabrian bergamot oil (for zing), and vanilla (from a sustainable operation in Madagascar). Instead, she says, fragrance is rooted in the “feelings it evokes and the memories that it may bring to you or to others.”