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House of Brandt
Smells like apricot jam and glowing petals
from $11.00
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.
D.S. & DURGA
Smells like a fig scone at a boutique bakeshop
from $10.00
The 2026 floral remix of Debaser, built around that same cassette-tape memory but pushed brighter and fruitier for spring.
Maison des Animaux
Smells like a maddening crush
from $6.00
Named directly after the psychological term for intense, obsessive infatuation. Linden blossom is the emotional center, with raspberry and tuberose layered against a base built from Honduran styrax resin and real oud.
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.
House of Cosmo
Smells like if shooting stars were marshmallows
from $7.00
If you love a gourmand but don't want it heavy or syrupy, Galaxia is the one. It feels soft and milky rather than sticky-sweet... as light as stardust, just like the name promises.
Maison Mataha
Smells like a fudgy brownie fresh from the oven with popcorn topping
Gourmand
Maison Mataha
Smells like a fudgy brownie fresh from the oven with popcorn topping
from $9.00
Built to smell specifically like a fudgy brownie topped with caramelized popcorn, an unusual pairing that gives it what the brand calls "a funfair note."
Day Three
Smells like a ripe mango pulled straight from the tree with a hint of sugarcane
Fruity
Day Three
Smells like a ripe mango pulled straight from the tree with a hint of sugarcane
from $10.00
Named after and built around the hometown of Day Three's owner, Vanessa; a Dominican town famous for its mango festival. Michael Paul used those specific local mangoes as his scent reference, which is why the mango note reads photo-realistic and slightly green rather than candy-sweet.
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
Federico Cantelli
Smells like a white floral bouquet worn like a second skin
Floral
Federico Cantelli
Smells like a white floral bouquet worn like a second skin
from $7.00
Italian-made and released in 2024. Gelsomino Bianco starts fruity like peach fuzz, drying into a fresh tuberose and jasmine scent with an almond base.
Le Jardin Retrouvé
Smells like creamy sandalwood wrapped in patchouli and moss
Le Jardin Retrouvé
Smells like creamy sandalwood wrapped in patchouli and moss
from $11.00
Sandalwood Sacré traces back to Yuri Gutsatz's years living in Bombay, where he was struck by the mystical calm of the city's ancient temples and the spiritual weight of sacred woods. He first created the fragrance in 1979 under the name Eau de Sandalwood. It's one of the...
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 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.
Indult
Smells like plum jam and jasmine on a patchouli-drenched evening
from $10.00
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.
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.
Goldfield & Banks
Smells like wild rose blooming on a salt flat
from $10.00
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...
Indult
Smells like lychee and rose petals dipped in something tropical
from $10.00
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...
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.
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
from $9.00
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.
Le Jardin Retrouvé
Smells like a leather-bound book wrapped in smoky violet
Floral
Le Jardin Retrouvé
Smells like a leather-bound book wrapped in smoky violet
from $11.00
The most personal fragrance in the entire collection, and the only one not named after a garden. Founder Yuri Gutsatz created it in 1977 to recreate a childhood memory of his father's leather boots and belt in St. Petersburg. Yuri fled Russia as a boy and never saw...
Sarah Baker
Smells like you're not going home alone
from $10.00
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