Welcome to Face Value, Highsnobiety’s monthly guide to the best new beauty products and the brands behind them.

Holiday season is nearly upon us, but you'll want to keep October's new beauty launches — fragrance, hair care, and skincare included — for yourself.

From Bottega Veneta's opulent fragrance collection to PATTERN's curl-defining hair steamer, these are the October beauty drops worth adding to cart.

Bottega Veneta - Come With Me

Last month, Bottega Veneta launched its first fragrance collection under the creative direction of Matthieu Blazy. The five scents, inspired by Venice, smell as chic as they look. In hand-blown bottles, the perfumes run the gamut from floral to spicy to aquatic. Our favorite is Come With Me, a buttery, iris-forward scent accented with touches of citrus and wood.

PATTERN - Hair Steamer

Tracee Ellis Ross has impeccable style, and an equally impressive beauty brand to match. PATTERN, the actor's curl-focused hair care line, launched a styling tool for textured locks. Enter: the Hair Steamer, a handheld gadget that uses steam to hydrate, detangle, and condition curls.

Pavise - Bioadaptive Stress Repair Serum

The Hermès of sunscreen brands is back with a new launch, a serum that helps even skin tone, reduce redness, and reduce fine lines and wrinkles. Powered by Pavise's proprietary DiamondCore, a patented form of zinc oxide that helps encourage collagen production and protect against free radicals, the serum is also formulated with a cocktail of peptides, pigment correctors (like Alpha-Arbutin, an antioxidant that fights dark spots), and anti-inflammatory agents (for example, licorice root extract).

After testing the serum months before it launched, I noticed a marked reduction in redness around my nose and on my chin, two hot spots for me. Without makeup, my skin looked better than ever — so much so that my partner noticed.

Overdrive - Drink Spike Defense

Overdrive, the harm reduction brand launched by the co-founder of Starface and Julie, continues to encourage safer partying with its new product: Drink Spike Defense, a pack of test strips that detect GHB, Rohypnol (also known as roofies), and ketamine. Just like Overdrive's fentanyl test strips, Drink Spike Defense is packaged like cigarettes, so it won't look out of place at the bar or club.

Loopha - Chalk Hand + Body Wash

Last month, DECIEM (best known as the company behind The Ordinary) expanded its portfolio with Loopha, a body care brand that merges form, fragrance, and function. This month, the brand adds a new scent to its collection of body and hand washes: Chalk, featuring notes of mint, saffron, anise, and musk.