Atwood
Smells like fig baked into salty, sunburnt skin
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This one has a real place and a real story behind it. Boy Beach sits at the far end of Cape Cod National Seashore, a 30-40 minute hike from where you park your bike, with a path that shifts with the tide. Atwood calls it "a pilgrimage" for...
ānti
Smells like sun-warmed sage and salty cumin skin
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Named for Antinoüs, the young companion of Roman Emperor Hadrian, who drowned himself in the Nile in 129 AD in what was believed to be a sacrificial act for his emperor's fortune - whew!
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.
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
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.
Goldfield & Banks
Smells like wild rose blooming on a salt flat
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Inspired by Lake Bumbunga, a real pink salt lake in South Australia whose name means "rainwater lake" in the local Kaurna Aboriginal language. Created by founder Dimitri Weber with perfumer Clément Marx, it's built to feel like a rose that shouldn't exist in a landscape too harsh for...
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
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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.
Indult
Smells like plum jam and jasmine on a patchouli-drenched evening
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The name means "divine" in Hindi. Built around Indian plum and jasmine sambac grounded by patchouli; a deliberate nod to patchouli's traditional association with Vishnu in Indian culture, since the plant is linked to the god as guardian of universal harmony.
Indult
Smells like lychee and rose petals dipped in something tropical
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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...
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
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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...
Day Three
Smells like ginger-lime fizz and jasmine floating over warm sand
Citrus
Day Three
Smells like ginger-lime fizz and jasmine floating over warm sand
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Inspired by a vacation owner and perfumer Michael Paul took to Del Mar, California. He was staying steps from the ocean where wild jasmine grew along a picket fence, and the sea breeze carrying that scent became the inspiration.
Le Jardin Retrouvé
Smells like powdery violet and cumin fog
from $11.00
Inspired by London's Royal Botanic Gardens at Kew, this one deliberately plays delicate English violet against warm, unexpected cumin and cardamom; a contrast the house describes as "innocence with a dangerous secret." It's currently the brand's best-seller.
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
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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.
Federico Cantelli
Smells like rose petals muddled into a sparkling drink
Fruity
Federico Cantelli
Smells like rose petals muddled into a sparkling drink
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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.
Federico Cantelli
Smells like vanilla with teeth (metaphorical!)
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If you enjoy a sweet but elevated amber, Intense Vanilla is for you. It's not dessert-y at all!
Federico Cantelli
Smells like a spoonful of panna cotta drizzled with caramel
Gourmand
Federico Cantelli
Smells like a spoonful of panna cotta drizzled with caramel
from $7.00
Gourmand Power was an original cult-favorite. Federico Cantelli brought it back in 2026 as a richer, longer-lasting Extrait de Parfum!
Simone Andreoli
Smells like salty night air over crashing waves
Aromatic
Simone Andreoli
Smells like salty night air over crashing waves
from $9.00
Simone Andreoli designed Ocean of a Midnight Moon around the coast of Formentera at night, imagining a wave rolling in under moonlight rather than sunshine.
Atwood
Smells like where pine meets sea
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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."
Atwood
Smells like a summer bike ride after dinner
from $9.00
Penuche is named after the old-fashioned brown-sugar fudge, but the scent itself is Atwood's snapshot of Provincetown's Commercial Street at golden hour. Salt air off MacMillan Pier, worn leather, and vanilla ice cream melting into a warm waffle cone.
ānti
Smells like a Venetian palazzo at midnight
from $9.00
Set during the Italian Renaissance, when a fear of bathing made perfume a substitute for it. People layered on jasmine, tuberose, and rose instead of washing.
TEKES
Smells like a rose with its thorns on
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A deliberately un-delicate take on rose, black pepper and saffron appear in the top notes, meant to evoke the flower's thorns before the Turkish rose absolute itself shows up at the heart.
TEKES
Smells like creamy violet and worn suede
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Named for Yafo (Jaffa), the ancient port city where old and new architecture collide block by block. Violet leaf and pink pepper open into leather and powdery violet, described by the brand as "both classic and modern."
TEKES
Smells like citrus stripped-back
from $9.00
A deliberately stripped-back citrus. TEKES describes it as living in "a cool tension between edge and ease."
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