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Sarah Baker
Smells like a peach pie cooling on the windowsill of somewhere very fancy
Fruity
Sarah Baker
Smells like a peach pie cooling on the windowsill of somewhere very fancy
from $10.00
Andrea Maack
Smells like juicy plum on a night out
from $10.00
the bit you might not know
Andrea Maack describes Jest as that feeling right before spring finally breaks, but perfumer Julien Rasquinet took it somewhere bolder. Fans call it a powerhouse for a reason, and it's become one of the most-repurchased scents in the whole house.
D.S. & DURGA
Smells like cool coriander seed and black pepper on a breezy hillside
Aromatic
D.S. & DURGA
Smells like cool coriander seed and black pepper on a breezy hillside
from $10.00
the bit you might not know
Set specifically in the hills above Odessa on the Black Sea, built around the idea that coriander is a genuinely "cool" spice rather than a warm one. David's own words are that most spices evoke roaring fires, but coriander evokes grass, fields, and sea air instead.
Day Three
Smells like ginger-lime fizz and jasmine floating over warm sand
Citrus
Day Three
Smells like ginger-lime fizz and jasmine floating over warm sand
from $10.00
the bit you might not know
Inspired by a vacation owner and perfumer Michael Paul took to Del Mar, California. He was staying steps from the ocean where wild jasmine grew along a picket fence, and the sea breeze carrying that scent became the inspiration.
Fleurit
Smells like rosemary and lavender rolling down Riviera hills
from $15.00
the bit you might not know
Inspired by the sun-scorched scrubland above the Côte d'Azur, thick with thyme, rosemary, and lavender.
Marissa Zappas
Smells like violet, apricot, and sun-warmed hay
from $10.00
the bit you might not know
Built from the very first accord Marissa Zappas ever created as a perfumer, reworked here with a lighter, more modern touch; evoking an afternoon on a farm, biting into an apricot near barrels of hay and wild violets breaking through fresh soil.
Atwood
Smells like hydrangea and cedar shingles
from $9.00
the bit you might not know
Named for the saltbox house, the classic sloped-roof Cape Cod cottage that colonial families built by pulling the roofline down at the back to add space, giving it a silhouette that reminded people of old wooden salt boxes on kitchen shelves. The fragrance follows that same New England-cottage...
D.S. & DURGA
Smells like woody pistachio with a dusting of cardamom
from $10.00
the bit you might not know
Started as a limited-run "Studio Juice" of only 100 bottles, made on a whim with no real story behind it, before customer demand got it added to the permanent line. The perfumer calls it "dank and unabashedly sweet," which he says isn't his usual style.
D.S. & DURGA
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the bit you might not know
Inspired by New England summers and the "Salt Spray Rose," the actual rosa rugosa that grows wild on Atlantic dunes. Unlike a traditional warm, powdery rose, this one is built to smell cold and aquatic.
Indult
Smells like lychee and rose petals dipped in something tropical
from $10.00
the bit you might not know
Built around Damascena rose that's harvested only at first light in Bulgaria's Rose Valley, paired with sweet lychee from Madagascar. It's one of the earliest fragrances to build specifically around a "rose-lychee" pairing, a combination that's since become fairly common in niche perfumery but was unusual when this...
Federico Cantelli
Smells like a white floral bouquet worn like a second skin
Floral
Federico Cantelli
Smells like a white floral bouquet worn like a second skin
from $7.00
the bit you might not know
Italian-made and released in 2024. Gelsomino Bianco starts fruity like peach fuzz, drying into a fresh tuberose and jasmine scent with an almond base.
Jorum Studio
Smells like nectar dripping onto skin
from $6.50
the bit you might not know
Named for the tissue that carries nutrients through a plant; a deliberately contradictory composition mixing sweet fruit with salty, oceanic facets.
Hilde Soliani
Smells like a martini…extra dirty
from $5.00
the bit you might not know
Created with chef Mauro Uliassi! Built to smell like the sea itself; an accord of butter and oysters, genuinely designed to evoke swimming in open water.
D'Orsay
Smells like two vanillas... one leathery and warm, one creamy and gourmand
Amber
D'Orsay
Smells like two vanillas... one leathery and warm, one creamy and gourmand
from $9.00
the bit you might not know
Vanilla Affair is a duo of vanillas. Madagascar Vanilla Planifolia absolute provides a deep, leathery vanilla and CO₂-extracted Bourbon Vanilla is creamy and gourmand!
Goldfield & Banks
Smells like fig and cassis drifting under a Tasmanian aurora
Woody
Goldfield & Banks
Smells like fig and cassis drifting under a Tasmanian aurora
from $8.00
the bit you might not know
Inspired by the Aurora Australis (the Southern Lights) as seen over Tasmania's Flinders Island. Built around native Kunzea, a woodsy Australian shrub, paired with fig and cassis, meant to evoke the stillness of Antarctic-adjacent wilderness.
TEKES
Smells like a rose with its thorns on
from $9.00
the bit you might not know
A deliberately un-delicate take on rose, black pepper and saffron appear in the top notes, meant to evoke the flower's thorns before the Turkish rose absolute itself shows up at the heart.
Goldfield & Banks
Smells like wild rose blooming on a salt flat
from $10.00
the bit you might not know
Inspired by Lake Bumbunga, a real pink salt lake in South Australia whose name means "rainwater lake" in the local Kaurna Aboriginal language. Created by founder Dimitri Weber with perfumer Clément Marx, it's built to feel like a rose that shouldn't exist in a landscape too harsh for...
STORA SKUGGAN
Smells like pine!
from $12.00
the bit you might not know
Exactly what it says on the label. No folklore, no mystery, just pine!
STORA SKUGGAN
Smells like it's not easy being green
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the bit you might not know
Inspired by a real, unexplained local legend from a Swiss village. A mysterious figure locals call "Le Loyon," seen wandering the woods for a decade in camouflage, quietly smelling flowers before vanishing at the first sound. Bergamot, galbanum, and forest flowers are built to evoke that same elusive,...
Atwood
Smells like fig baked into salty, sunburnt skin
from $9.00
the bit you might not know
This one has a real place and a real story behind it. Boy Beach sits at the far end of Cape Cod National Seashore, a 30-40 minute hike from where you park your bike, with a path that shifts with the tide. Atwood calls it "a pilgrimage" for...
Le Jardin Retrouvé
Smells like powdery violet and cumin fog
from $11.00
the bit you might not know
Inspired by London's Royal Botanic Gardens at Kew, this one deliberately plays delicate English violet against warm, unexpected cumin and cardamom; a contrast the house describes as "innocence with a dangerous secret." It's currently the brand's best-seller.
Atwood
Smells like a summer bike ride after dinner
from $9.00
the bit you might not know
Penuche is named after the old-fashioned brown-sugar fudge, but the scent itself is Atwood's snapshot of Provincetown's Commercial Street at golden hour. Salt air off MacMillan Pier, worn leather, and vanilla ice cream melting into a warm waffle cone.
ānti
Smells like a Pompeii rose dug out of volcanic ash
from $9.00
the bit you might not know
Inspired by an actual archaeological find: a perfectly preserved perfume extract unearthed in the ruins of Pompeii, dated to 79 AD, the same year Vesuvius erupted.
Day Three
Smells like a tiny cup of Dominican coffee sweetened with brown sugar and rum
Spicy
Day Three
Smells like a tiny cup of Dominican coffee sweetened with brown sugar and rum
from $10.00
the bit you might not know
Built to smell like Michael Paul's own mother's house; coffee on the stove, vanilla cake in the oven. It won the 2023 Art & Olfaction Aftel Award for Handmade Perfume, the house's very first submission to any perfume competition, and later also won Best Debut Fragrance at ScentXplore...
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