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Smoke, spice, woods and a little trouble. For when pretty isn’t quite enough.
Scent Control
Smells like dry wood and night air
from $4.25
Set on a specific late-night walk through New York's Lower East Side, built around that electric moment when strangers become friends at the hour when the city feels most alive.
Marlou
Smells like an old library
from $8.00
Takes its cue from horses and stables; dry straw, worked leather, and warm animal presence give it what the house calls an "equestrian sensuality."
d'Annam
Smells like a caravan of spice and suede
from $8.00
Spicy tobacco done amazingly well.
Theodoros Kalotinis
Smells like creamy sandalwood and warm rum
Woody
Theodoros Kalotinis
Smells like creamy sandalwood and warm rum
from $12.00
Sandalwood takes the lead here, layered with oud wood and patchouli, then folded into the world's most luxurious rum. A shimmering, boozy wood elixir.
Marissa Zappas
Smells like rain on dry earth
from $10.00
The specific scent of rain hitting dry earth.
Essential Parfums
Smells like black pepper meets rose smoke
from $7.00
Manly rose!
Maison des Animaux
Smells like chai tea (and you're in a comfy sweater)
from $6.00
Built to hit both sides of fig at once; the bright, green bitterness of fresh fig alongside the deep, jammy sweetness of cooked fig. It uses Guatemalan cardamom and elemi resin to bridge the two. It's become the house's most reviewed and talked-about scents!
Giardini di Toscana
Smells like elevated spices, patchouli, and warm woods
Woody
Giardini di Toscana
Smells like elevated spices, patchouli, and warm woods
from $9.00
A citrus-forward woody fragrance that opens with bergamot, lemon, and orange before shifting into rose, wild berries, cacao, and cinnamon, an unusual semigourmand-meets-citrus pairing.
Marissa Zappas
Smells like creamy florals, soft spice, and incense
Amber
Marissa Zappas
Smells like creamy florals, soft spice, and incense
from $10.00
Inspired by the 1962 B-horror film of the same name, following the story's sole car-crash survivor as she relocates to Utah and drifts into a spectral, electric dimension.
Room 1015
Smells like a teenage dirtbag baby
from $12.00
Directly inspired by Vivienne Westwood's legendary London punk boutique SEX on King's Road. Described by the brand as "the idealism of adolescence wrapped in a heavy leather jacket."
L'Epoque
Smells like standing at the edge, convinced it's yours
Amber
L'Epoque
Smells like standing at the edge, convinced it's yours
from $12.00
Apricot, rum, and tobacco meet jasmine sambac and leather; inspired by that specific getting-ready-for-a-night-out overconfidence, "convinced the world is yours for the taking."
Liis
Smells like soft suede, warm spice, and resin
from $6.30
Inspired directly by Shakespeare's Sonnet 116, about love that "looks on tempests and is never shaken."
Ghost Stories
Smells like raspberry and smoke drifting through forest fog
Earthy
Ghost Stories
Smells like raspberry and smoke drifting through forest fog
from $9.00
Built around the eerie thrill of an open road at night. A mysterious traveler, deep forest fog, and the sweet-dark pull of raspberry against cedarwood and oud.
État Libre d'Orange
from $8.00
Created in 2006 by perfumer Antoine Maisondieu as a tribute to golden-age Hollywood icons like Greta Garbo and Marlene Dietrich, smoking in the smoky black-and-white glamour of the era.
Jorum Studio
Smells like sun-warmed trees, forest air...and a bearded man
from $9.00
Described as "an imagined day-in-the-life of a Virideer." A Green Man figure tending Scottish woodland.
kheimistrii
Smells like a quiet tea house
from $35.00
perfume oil rollerball For lovers of depth and strength, Tibetan Black Tea is a richly brewed journey into exotic, spicy terrain. This scent is steeped with layers of smoky birch resin, peppery heat, and tropical woods. Brazilian pepper and Vietnamese champak add complexity and bite. It's pure, dark,...
STORA SKUGGAN
Smells like the way moonlight on your skin feels
from $12.00
Named after a 16th-century account by naturalist Conrad Gessner, who described moonlight filling Alpine caves so brightly it seemed to turn liquid, dripping from limestone stalactites as a strange white mineral deposit called "moonmilk." Black tea and cardamom keep it grounded and mineral rather than sweet.
Biology
from $30.00
Let cade smoke transport you to a mystical escape where bright neroli, sweet vanilla, and deep tuberose create your after-dark signature. Smells Like: Smoke, Citrus, Vanilla, NocturnalFeels Like: A candlelit ritual in a hidden chamber: grounding, charged, and just out of reach. Formulated For: Regeneration with Cade Stress...
Federico Cantelli
Smells like peppery clove and pine over patchouli
Amber
Federico Cantelli
Smells like peppery clove and pine over patchouli
from $5.00
Ghost Stories
Smells like leather and tobacco smoldering under a full moon
Spicy
Ghost Stories
Smells like leather and tobacco smoldering under a full moon
from $9.00
Inspired by classic Halloween folklore. The kind of story where something's prowling in the woods just past the tavern lights. Cardamom and nutmeg open into leather, tobacco, and smoky woods for an old-world, campfire-at-midnight feel.
Giardini di Toscana
Smells like soft sandalwood and warm air
from $9.00
Built for someone who wants to be noticed; the base settles into a warm, amber-heavy base of patchouli and cetalox for something sensual and magnetic.
ānti
Smells like a pharaoh's temple at dusk
from $9.00
Bast was created as a reinterpretation of "ânti," humanity's first documented perfume, an ancient Egyptian blend worn by pharaohs' favorites in sacred desert ceremonies around 2000 BC. It carries a feline, mystical edge that gives the whole brand its name.
STORA SKUGGAN
Smells like a witch who prefers very sugary tea
from $12.00
Named for a real unexplained phenomenon; mysterious booming sounds that emerge from fog over lakes and rivers worldwide, recorded for centuries with no confirmed scientific explanation. The brand spent four years trying to capture that elusiveness in scent form.
STORA SKUGGAN
Smells like wormwood and belladonna rubbed into a (witchy) broomstick
Aromatic
STORA SKUGGAN
Smells like wormwood and belladonna rubbed into a (witchy) broomstick
from $12.00
Named for the medieval witches' "flying ointment." A poisonous hallucinogenic salve historically rubbed onto skin (often via a broomstick) that produced sensations of flight and is thought to be the real origin of the witch-on-a-broomstick myth. Wormwood, belladonna, and black hemlock nod directly to the salve's toxic ingredients.
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