d'Annam
Smells like candied fruits and celebratory spirits
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the bit you might not know
Built around the joy of Lunar New Year; millions of people traveling home to reunite with family.
D'Orsay
Smells like a summertime bike ride
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the bit you might not know
We! Love! Linden! Blossom!
27 87
Smells like electric tuberose
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the bit you might not know
Sónar is inspired by a music festival, has the atmosphere of a fog machine...
Andrea Maack
Smells like a rain-soaked enchanted forest
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Witchy fragheads rise up!
Pineward
Smells like tropical fruit dripping onto salty skin
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the bit you might not know
Uses an unusually engineered mint accord, combined from essential oil, SCO2 extraction, and absolute specifically so the mint note survives the entire wear time instead of fading early, which is a common problem with mint in perfumery!
Pineward
Smells like lichen on stone
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the bit you might not know
Named for and directly inspired by the Holy Cross Wilderness in Colorado's Rocky Mountains, including two real, specific locations: Mystic Island Lake and the Mount of the Holy Cross itself. Watercress and juniper meet wet stone and lichen, built to smell like alpine terrain coming alive in spring.
D.S. & DURGA
Smells like skin...clean, radiant, and magnetic
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the bit you might not know
D.S. & Durga's "fragrance enhancer," built with almost no scent notes of its own, only radiant building-block materials (Iso E Super, ambrox, civettone) meant to be layered over anything else to boost it. As the perfumer puts it, "it's like a building with only structure, no interior."
Maison des Animaux
Smells like honeyed golden hour
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the bit you might not know
Rather than building around one dominant note, the perfumers deliberately wove florals, greens, and berries so tightly together that the brand notes it "almost defy separation into their individual parts."
Giardini di Toscana
Smells like a deep breath outdoors
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the bit you might not know
Part of the Trilogia collection, built around the physical sensation of stepping outside and taking a full breath after being indoors too long.
Essential Parfums
Smells like black pepper meets rose smoke
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Manly rose!
kheimistrii
Smells like sweet milk and melted vanilla
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Sweet Cream is a tender skin scent built around sugary milk and golden vanilla. Black vanilla pod adds a deeper, more aromatic layer to the milky praline sweetness, giving this fragrance a melted, edible warmth.
Notes: Vanilla praline, sweetened milk, black vanilla pod
Marlou
Smells like an old library
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the bit you might not know
Takes its cue from horses and stables; dry straw, worked leather, and warm animal presence give it what the house calls an "equestrian sensuality."
Marlou
Smells like a kitty!
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the bit you might not know
Named as a play on "manicure" and "carnal," this one leans into an old-world, feline sensuality.
Andrea Maack
Smells like a soapy mango bath
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the bit you might not know
For the gals that wore Sweet Pea by Bath & Body Works in middle school
ānti
Smells like the morning after Marie-Antoinette's house
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the bit you might not know
Imagines the morning after one of Marie-Antoinette's parties at the Petit Trianon in 1772, with the royal gardener tending both the flowers and the aftermath.
House of Brandt
Smells like apricot jam and glowing petals
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the bit you might not know
The brand describes it as evoking "evenings lit by fireflies." The night-blooming jasmine is harvested specifically at the summer solstice, when the brand says its scent is most potent, and the honey carries subtle orange-blossom notes from the bees' own foraging.
Maison Mataha
Smells like a sun-warmed peach and candied violet
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the bit you might not know
Created by perfumer Dominique Preyssas, built around the specific sensory memory of biting into a sun-warmed peach on a August afternoon. Tuberose, violet, and jasmine are layered in as "a white bouquet that dances with the heat," meant to feel powdery and soft rather than sharply fruity.
Day Three
Smells like caramelized plantain, juicy pineapple, and honey drizzled over a Dominican dessert
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Day Three
Smells like caramelized plantain, juicy pineapple, and honey drizzled over a Dominican dessert
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the bit you might not know
Built around a house-made "maduros accord," caramelized plantains with cinnamon, replicating the exact way they're cooked at home in the Dominican Republic. The name means "three golds," referring to the honey, pineapple, and plantain that anchor the composition.
État Libre d'Orange
Smells like fresh bread and quiet mornings
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the bit you might not know
Built as a meditation on true love as "an eternal beginning again," the concept centers on ancient hearts finding their way back together, words failing while souls speak in complete transparency. Created by perfumer Jérôme di Marino, it's framed as the scent of a lover's breakfast: warm brioche...
D'Orsay
Smells like your morning reset
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the bit you might not know
Picture rose water instead of rose petals.
Andrea Maack
Smells like pink pepper and warm iris grazing on skin
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the bit you might not know
Andrea Maack calls Neon Veil "electric optimism" in a bottle. Perfumer Domitille Michalon Bertier built it around musky orris instead of her usual gardenia, which brings a gorgeous hazy quality to the fragrance.
Imaginary Authors
Smells like the scent wafting out of an ice cream shop
Gourmand
Imaginary Authors
Smells like the scent wafting out of an ice cream shop
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the bit you might not know
A real collaboration with Salt & Straw, Portland's beloved ice cream brand. The founder became obsessed with Imaginary Authors before realizing they were neighbors, and the two brands teamed up to capture the exact smell of a scoop shop. Our team says it smells like walking down Main...
House of Brandt
Smells like mist over an ancient pine forest
from $11.00
the bit you might not know
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.
Sarah Baker
Smells like a juicy peach with something to prove
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