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Smoke, spice, woods and a little trouble. For when pretty isn’t quite enough.
kheimistrii
Smells like spiced rum, cherry almond, and dark coffee
from $35.00
perfume oil rollerball For when you're feeling spooky! Notes: amber, nutmeg, absinthe, dark rum, cyanide essence (cherry almond), tonka bean, hemoglobin, saffron, tobacco, mocha, espresso, sandalwood, vetiver, green pepper
House of Brandt
Smells like mist over an ancient pine forest
from $11.00
Built around an alpine mist over an ancient coniferous forest. Less story-driven than mood-driven, it's meant to capture that specific hush of high-altitude forest air.
D.S. & DURGA
Smells like woody pistachio with a dusting of cardamom
from $10.00
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.
L'Epoque
Smells like a forest fairy
from $12.00
Built around the idea that desire and fear often show up together; pink pepper and cardamom meet patchouli, petrichor, and wet earth for something genuinely earthy rather than conventionally pretty. Team Solvi says it's giving Twilight!
STORA SKUGGAN
Smells like pine!
from $12.00
Exactly what it says on the label. No folklore, no mystery, just pine!
Biology
from $30.00
Deep merges spiced warmth, floral nuance, and woody calm into a richly layered blend that grounds the spirit, boosts the mood, and invites introspection through scent. Smells Like: Cinnamon, Warm, Spicy, DeepFeels Like: A velvet ritual: grounded, bold, and unapologetically personal. Formulated For: Mood Boost with Cinnamon Calming...
ānti
Smells like a Pompeii rose dug out of volcanic ash
from $9.00
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.
kheimistrii
Smells like lavender, green florals, and dark patchouli
from $35.00
perfume oil rollerball Vamp is a hauntingly beautiful blend of aromatic florals and deep, resinous patchouli. Egyptian geranium adds a sharp green edge, while French lavender soothes and lifts. Indonesian black patchouli anchors everything with a shadowy pulse. An all-natural essential oil blend, Vamp is both grounding and...
House of Cosmo
Smells like menthol and coconut colliding with warm tobacco
Woody
House of Cosmo
Smells like menthol and coconut colliding with warm tobacco
from $7.00
Element Delta is the most "out there" of the whole House of Cosmo line, and the opening proves it. It's an unusual pairing that shouldn't work but does, which is exactly the point: House of Cosmo describes it as "never fixed, always becoming."
STORA SKUGGAN
Smells like a historic plant lost to time
from $12.00
A tribute to history's most valuable lost spice; an ancient North African plant so prized by Greek and Roman writers that it was harvested to complete extinction, its true scent and flavor lost forever. Stora Skuggan built their version by researching Silphium's surviving botanical relatives to reconstruct what...
TEKES
Smells like an exploration of the Silk Road
from $9.00
Named for and inspired by the Silk Road, the ancient desert trade route that carried spices, treasures, and art between the Far East and the Mediterranean. Incense and pink pepper open into rose and amber, meant to evoke the opulence of exactly the goods that once crossed that...
Indult
Smells like citrus first, leather after
from $10.00
A 2024 reimagining of Indult's original 2008 leather scent, Rêve en Cuir. Kurkdjian's approach here was deliberately atypical for leather fragrances; instead of dense "new car" leather, it opens bright and citrusy, with the leather note only slowly revealing itself as the scent develops.
Federico Cantelli
Smells like amber wrapped in sweet tobacco leaf
from $7.00
A 2026 release built around the pairing named in its title. Federico Cantelli goes for a "rounded," soft tobacco that smells more sweet than earthy.
Marissa Zappas
Smells like incense, soft powder, and smoke
from $7.00
Named for the most successful pirate in history, an early-1800s Chinese fleet commander who evaded the government for decades before retiring, unpunished, to open a casino.
Baruti
Smells like whiskey by the fireplace
from $10.00
Built around a custom "NOOUD" accord, a completely oud-free wood note engineered from scratch by perfumer Spyros Drosopoulos to smell like real oud. Greek mastic, plum, and whisky open into coffee and rose, meant to evoke an intimate winter night by the fire.
Baruti
Smells like a steaming chai latte spiked with rose
from $10.00
Built to capture the specific memory of a beloved chai latte; real cinnamon, cardamom, and black tea meet steamed milk and cocoa.
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
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.
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
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...
Sarah Baker
Smells like black vanilla and bourbon smoke at a dusty desert sunset
Woody
Sarah Baker
Smells like black vanilla and bourbon smoke at a dusty desert sunset
from $10.00
Imaginary Authors
Smells like a struck match, berries, and cardamom smoke drifting through a city at night
Woody
Imaginary Authors
Smells like a struck match, berries, and cardamom smoke drifting through a city at night
from $7.00
A noir graphic-novel concept about two reclusive matchmakers who witness a murder and become unlikely partners. Smoky cade oil and spikenard give it a genuinely urban, burnt-match intensity. It's one of the house's boldest, most divisive scents.
Pineward
Smells like smoldering pine
from $7.00
Pineward's calls this "a challenging perfume," and it's one of the brand's most popular scents despite that warning. Built around morel mushroom and decayed rose over charred pineboard and incense, meant to evoke funeral rites.
Federico Cantelli
Smells like vanilla with teeth (metaphorical!)
from $7.00
If you enjoy a sweet but elevated amber, Intense Vanilla is for you. It's not dessert-y at all!
Federico Cantelli
Smells like rose petals muddled into a sparkling drink
Fruity
Federico Cantelli
Smells like rose petals muddled into a sparkling drink
from $7.00
A 2026 release from Federico Cantelli. Cantelli builds rose around a whole fruit bowl (apricot, mango, grapefruit) instead of the usual jammy or powdery treatment.
Atwood
Smells like where pine meets sea
from $9.00
Named for the actual Beech Forest trail in Provincetown's Cape Cod National Seashore; a dry, sandy pine-and-scrub landscape that's a world away from what most people picture as "New England woods."
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