Haruharu Wonder's Black Rice Airyfit Sunscreen earns its name, and the details it gets right are the ones most sunscreens ignore.

The first is the smell. Chemical filters have a characteristic note that most brands mask with fragrance - which solves the smell and creates a new problem for reactive skin. This is fragrance-free and manages to have very little filter smell to cover, which is a formulation achievement rather than a marketing one.

The second is weight. It spreads thin and disappears with no cast and no tack, which is what determines whether a sunscreen is reapplied in humidity or quietly skipped.

Fermented black rice runs through it as the brand's signature base, with panthenol supporting the barrier through a day of sun and air-conditioning.

Apply as the final morning step, roughly two finger-lengths for face and neck. If you have reacted to sunscreens in the past, this is the one we would try first.