on the shelf
Ghost Stories
Smells like peach candy under an October sky
from $9.00
the bit you might not know
Despite the fruity name, this one's built as an autumn scent...brisk October air, tart peach rings, and dark chocolate patchouli, finished with a wisp of palo santo smoke. The perfect gothic peach!
TEKES
Smells like nights turned into mornings
from $9.00
the bit you might not know
Built around the tension between distance and closeness. The brand describes it as "the deep, powerful feeling of being transported back to a person, a moment, an emotion." The name itself nods to the way a specific memory can feel permanently sunlit.
Dos Mundos
Smells like incense smoke clinging to warm stone walls
from $10.00
Marissa Zappas
Smells like chilled rose petals
from $7.00
the bit you might not know
Named for Imperia La Divina, Rome's first celebrity courtesan, famous for charging onlookers just to gaze at her in her window.
D.S. & DURGA
Smells like a fig scone at a boutique bakeshop
from $10.00
the bit you might not know
The 2026 floral remix of Debaser, built around that same cassette-tape memory but pushed brighter and fruitier for spring.
TEKES
Smells like an exploration of the Silk Road
from $9.00
the bit you might not know
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...
Maison Mataha
Smells like the caramelized sugar of a crème brûlée
Gourmand
Maison Mataha
Smells like the caramelized sugar of a crème brûlée
from $9.00
the bit you might not know
This is the fragrance that started the entire brand! Maison Mataha was founded around the obsession of nailing the perfect dark, crème-brûlée-style vanilla, and this scent became that founding vision made real. Created in collaboration with perfumer Vincent Ricord, it remains the house's signature and best-known release.
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.
Baruti
Smells like a steaming chai latte spiked with rose
from $10.00
the bit you might not know
Built to capture the specific memory of a beloved chai latte; real cinnamon, cardamom, and black tea meet steamed milk and cocoa.
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.
Maison des Animaux
Smells like a literal daydream
from $6.00
the bit you might not know
Built from multiple forms of orris, including aged tinctures and high-irone butter, as a modern tribute to iris root, one of perfumery's most labor-intensive and expensive materials to source.
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
Scentologia
from $144.00
the bit you might not know
velvety | warm | addictive Absolute is vanilla dressed in smoke and flowers. Creamy white petals meet deep woods and a base of amber and tobacco—smooth, sensual, and impossible to forget. Notes: Sage, Hay, Cypriol, Laurel, Vanilla, Guaiac Wood, Gurjum, White Flower, Amber, Tonka, Tobacco, Musk
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...
TEKES
Smells like citrus stripped-back
from $9.00
the bit you might not know
A deliberately stripped-back citrus. TEKES describes it as living in "a cool tension between edge and ease."
time to find something good
Let’s find something worth sniffing.
