BORNTOSTANDOUT
Black Guava
Smells like a dark, twisted guava candy
from $10.00
- vibe
- full-bodied; sweet; fruity
- intensity
- Loud
- season
- Summer; Fall
the bit you might not know
Behind the scent
A very complicated guava.
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BORNTOSTANDOUT
Smells like a dark, twisted guava candy
from $10.00
the bit you might not know
A very complicated guava.
Fugazzi
Smells like passionfruit, smoke, and warm woods
from $8.00
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Created by perfumer Ilias Ermenidis, inspired by the energy of Ipanema Beach in Brazil.
BORNTOSTANDOUT
Smells like deep sweetness and a grand entrance
from $10.00
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Grape candy, 21+.
27 87
Smells like ambition dressed in leather
from $11.00
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Every leather-lover must try! This one is intense.
D'Orsay
Smells like strawberry milk for grownups
from $9.00
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The initial spray is SO different from the dry-down. Let it do its thing!
BORNTOSTANDOUT
Smells like sweet mango after dark
from $10.00
the bit you might not know
A very complicated mango.
SORA DORA
Smells like not your average musk
from $10.00
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Framed as a literal treasure hunt; it walks you through a 30-second stretch of bergamot and mandarin trees, then five hours through nutmeg and white thyme groves before the trail darkens into vanilla and musk. An authentic, reinvented fougère, deliberately built to feel "as masculine as no one...
Theodoros Kalotinis
Smells like toffee wrapped in oud
from $7.00
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Anchored by real agarwood (oud), paired with a toffee macaron accord and prized Kozani saffron; the specific Greek saffron variety considered the world's finest.
Day Three
Smells like rose, warm oud, and vanilla wrapped in a soft cloud of saffron
Amber
Day Three
Smells like rose, warm oud, and vanilla wrapped in a soft cloud of saffron
from $10.00
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A genuinely personal creation. Perfumer Michael Paul made this as a scent-love-letter to his teenage daughter, Dakota Aylan, using rare, expensive materials she personally loves. He compounded the first batch on her actual birthday, and it now macerates for a full eight months before bottling, making it the...
Goldfield & Banks
Smells like molten agarwood wrapped in vanilla
from $10.00
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Built around Australian agarwood harvested sustainably from the Daintree Rainforest; the first time this wood species had ever been used in perfumery. It's meant as a softer, more modern reinterpretation of oud, in contrast to the heavier, more animalic ouds.
House of BŌ
Smells like praline and aged whiskey forged into a smoky veil
from $12.00
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Created by Alberto Morillas, imagining what a gourmand fragrance would smell like in outer space. Cold metallic minerals melt into aged whiskey, praline, dragon's blood incense, and agarwood. Its cap is metallized volcanic stone, said to promote grounding and stability (we all need that!)
House of Cosmo
Smells like the cusp of a black hole
from $7.00
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"The universe holds many mysteries, but none as powerful as Dark Matter—an unseen force binding galaxies and shaping the cosmos itself. It is presence without form, power without boundary, a gravity that cannot be escaped."
Jorum Studio
Smells like sun-warmed trees, forest air...and a bearded man
from $9.00
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Described as "an imagined day-in-the-life of a Virideer." A Green Man figure tending Scottish woodland.
Day Three
Smells like a dark chocolate-covered raspberry
from $12.00
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Midnight Raspberry features a big dose of natural Vietnamese agarwood specifically so the raspberry feels dark, not sweet or dessert-like. The perfumer, founder Michael Paul, describes the oud as functioning like the dark chocolate shell wrapped around the raspberry itself. It's currently the house's most premium release.
Simone Andreoli
Smells like the beauty of a black sand beach
from $9.00
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Born From Fire is inspired by Maui's black-sand beach at Honolokani. Tropical vanilla and burnt sugar collide with saffron and oud for a warm, smoky sweetness with volcanic depth.
Pineward
Smells like smoldering pine
from $7.00
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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.
Jorum Studio
Smells like crushed roses and dark fruit
from $9.00
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Born from a daydream to create "a garden for the skin," a deliberately untamed floral built around Isparta rose absolute, with thorns intact.
Baruti
Smells like whiskey by the fireplace
from $10.00
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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.