brand directory

meet the houses

the names behind the bottles

From cult favorites to smaller houses worth knowing, explore the brands on Solvi’s shelves and the stories, places and values behind them.

27 87

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27 87

27 87 believes there’s no scent like the present. Made to be lived in, celebrated in, and socialized in. The name nods to Romy Kowalewski’s birth date and to the two bottle sizes: 27 ml and 87 ml. Based in Barcelona, the Berlin-born founder collaborates with local artisans and perfumers from around the world. A holistic take on luxury: high-quality ingredients, meticulous detail, and traditional craftsmanship reimagined with a modern, approachable edge.

Made in Barcelona Cruelty-free Vegan
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Andrea Maack

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Andrea Maack

Andrea Maack is a luxury fragrance house born from art. Founded by Icelandic visual artist Andrea Maack in 2012, the brand grew from scent-based installations and a desire to treat fragrance as a percussive stroke on skin and in air. Each scent is designed to feel gallery-ready. Minimal, tactile, and quietly bold; like a fragrance that travels with you the way artwork travels across a page. Maack’s approach is rooted in seeing scent as a traveling line: it moves along the skin, drifts through the air, and leaves a personal trace. This is fragrance as intimate sculpture; rigorously crafted, endlessly evocative, and unmistakably its own.

Made in Iceland Cruelty-free Vegan
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ānti

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ānti

ānti is a niche, genderless fragrance house founded by Larissa and Brieuc that treats scent as olfactory archaeology; recreating ancient, historical, and forgotten stories through modern artistry. Inspired by the first perfume of humankind and the timeless pull of myrrh and frankincense, the brand blends Bauhaus-informed aesthetics with meticulous storytelling. From the quiet power of ancient vessels to contemporary sensory experiences, ānti invites you to remember rather than invent: fragrances that feel prehistoric in their honesty, yet utterly present in their craft.

Made in Paris, france
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Astrophil & Stella

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Astrophil & Stella

Inspired by the celestial romance of Sir Philip Sidney's poetic protagonists, Astrophil & Stella tells a love story between earth and sky, between mortal and muse. Rooted in both literary tradition and modern alchemy, the brand channels starry-eyed enchantment into fragrance form. Each scent is created by world-class perfumers who blend their varied backgrounds and creative visions into bold, dreamlike compositions. With magical symbols and celestial references guiding the way, Astrophil & Stella invites wearers to step into a fragrant universe where beauty is mythic, and scent becomes a spellwork. A star-crossed, dream-filled house with both heart and stardust.

Made in Italy Cruelty-free
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Atwood

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Atwood

Atwood is an ode to Provincetown, Massachusetts, from perfumer Luke Anapolis. The name comes from John Atwood, a fisherman who built the first house at Long Point in 1818. A village grew up around it...families, a bakery, saltworks, and then, slowly, everyone left. Around 30 homes were floated across the harbor on rafts to what's now Provincetown's West End, where many still stand. Atwood is a tribute to everyone who's been pulled to that stretch of sand since: the Wampanoag, Portuguese fishermen, artists, dreamers, and queers who arrived as outsiders and stayed as themselves.

Made in USA Cruelty-free Vegan
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Baruti

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Baruti

Where art meets alchemy. Founded by Dr. Spyros Drosopoulos, a neuroscientist turned perfumer, this Amsterdam-based house crafts olfactive stories that defy expectations. Each scent feels familiar yet novel, personal yet abstract. Baruti challenges traditional ideas of perfume and gender, inviting you into unexpected compositions that shift and bloom on the skin. With a lab-based, small-batch approach and an unapologously avant-garde spirit, Baruti creates fragrances that intrigue, inspire, and refuse to play it safe. A true niche brand built on high-quality raw materials, distinctive character, and a fearless artistic vision.

Made in the Netherlands Cruelty-free Vegan
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björk & berries

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björk & berries

Björk and Berries is a Swedish fragrance house born from the forests of northern Sweden, where founder Isabelle Lewenhaupt first began hand-picking wild leaves, berries, and birch to bottle the essence of the country's untamed landscapes. Each scent draws on Sweden's ever-changing seasons and its rich vein of folklore, translating cultural and natural narratives into refined, wearable perfumes crafted alongside perfumer Jérôme Epinette.

sweden + france Cruelty-free Vegan
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BORNTOSTANDOUT

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BORNTOSTANDOUT

A true show-stopper from Seoul. For color-outside-the-lines souls who never ask permission, this South Korean niche house blends boldness, art, and unbridled expression into luxe, effortlessly cool fragrances. Think scents that are loud in all the right ways, attitude-forward, imperfect, and endlessly curious. BTSO push boundaries while tipping their hat to Korea’s aesthetic traditions. The result? Smooth, slinky unisex perfumes that feel rebellious yet refined, designed to stand out not blend in.

Made in South Korea Cruelty-free Vegan
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D.S. & DURGA

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D.S. & DURGA

D.S. & Durga is a Brooklyn-born niche house where storytelling takes center stage. Founded in 2007 by David Seth Moltz and Kavi Ahuja Moltz, the brand crafts unisex scents drawn from folk songs, literature, nature, and personal memory. David builds the scent, Kavi shapes the branding, and together they chase those half-remembered moments and landscapes; fragrances that feel more like narratives than notes. A tribute to intimate, vivid storytelling over traditional perfumery.

Made in New York Cruelty-free
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d'Annam

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d'Annam

d’Annam is a fine fragrance house rooted in Vietnam’s vibrant traditions. Each scent brings calm, joy, and a sense of belonging, born from meaningful collaborations with local artists and partners. Small-batch, high-quality ingredients meet time-honored craft and a spirit of innovation. Themes of serenity, happiness, and inclusivity thread through every bottle, speaking warmly and with intention. Created by Nick Hoang and inspired by a longing to carry the landscapes of rural Vietnam in scent and memory.

Made in Vietnam Cruelty-free Vegan
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d'Orsay

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d'Orsay

D’Orsay is a storied French fragrance house that still feels alive and intimate. Since 1830, its perfumes blend passion, art, and storytelling, designed to be shared across couples. Each scent carries a signature with cryptic initials, hinting at intimate narratives and hidden relationships. Modern, gender-fluid scents that honor heritage while inviting new secrets, crafted in France with careful materials and a touch of mystery. Relaunched in 2015 by Amélie Huynh, the line stays artisanal, collaborating with top perfumers worldwide to keep the legacy fresh and relevant.

Made in France Cruelty-free
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Day Three

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Day Three

Day Three is a family-run house in Gilbert, Arizona. Perfumer Michael Paul spent years as a working magician before COVID shut the entertainment industry down and turned his hobby into the family business. It started in 2022 at the kitchen table over a cup of Dominican coffee, which became La Tacita de Café. Everything still happens in the Arizona lab: blended, macerated, poured by Michael, labeled and boxed by the family, and sent out with a handwritten note.

Made in Arizona, USA
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Discothéque

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Discothéque

Discothèque sits between London and LA, a luxury fragrance house born from nightlife’s culture-shifting energy. Each scent channels a legendary club in a legendary city; memories turned into mood, rhythm into scent. Clean, vegan, and crafted in the UK, the collection reimagines scent as a sensory time machine. More than a nightclub, a discothèque is a place where misfits, icons, elites, and wallflowers all come together to celebrate music. Inclusive exclusivity on the dancefloor.

made in uk Cruelty-free Vegan
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Dos Mundos

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Dos Mundos

Dos Mundos is a Latin-owned fragrance brand rooted in the layered, evolving spirit of Latin culture, shaped by the rhythms, rituals, and textures of everyday life. Each scent is built from lived stories: the energy of a night out, the weight of a quiet moment, the elegance of a culture too rich for a single name.Dos Mundos is a Latin-owned fragrance brand rooted in the layered, evolving spirit of Latin culture — shaped by the rhythms, rituals, and textures of everyday life. Each scent is built from lived stories: the energy of a night out, the weight of a quiet moment, the elegance of a culture too rich for a single name.

Made in Mexico Cruelty-free Vegan
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Essential Parfums

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Essential Parfums

Essential Parfums puts the perfumer back at the center. French-made, built on creative freedom, sustainability, and transparency. Each scent is signed by its creator, with sustainably sourced ingredients, minimalist packaging, and a refined, clean aesthetic. Easy to wear, never forgettable; the brand seeks to democratize fine perfumery without losing the artistry. Founded in 2018 by Géraldine Archambault, the mission: remove the noise, honor the perfumer, and keep prices fair.

Made in France Cruelty-free Vegan
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État Libre d'Orange

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État Libre d'Orange

Etat Libre d’Orange is fragrance rebellion. Original, audacious, and unapologetically artistic. Defying convention with fearless, boundary-pushing scents, the house blends luxury with provocation, often ironic, always refined. In a decade, it’s earned a devoted following for its singularity, sincerity, and ethos: luxurious, provocative, subversive, and elegant. A bold force in perfumery.

Made in France Cruelty-free
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Federico Cantelli

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Federico Cantelli

Italy’s youngest professional perfumer, Federico Cantelli, crafts gourmand fragrances by hand from start to finish. Maceration in glass, hand-filtering, and artisanal dedication give each bottle a deeply personal, indulgent feel. Known for crave-worthy, playful scents you can layer and experiment with, Cantelli blends tradition with a bold, future-forward vision. Started at 16, he honors craft while pushing scent in new directions, ensuring every bottle is a peak of artisanal artistry.

Made in Italy Cruelty-free
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Fleurit Parfums

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Fleurit Parfums

Fleurit Parfums crafts fragrances that evoke emotion, spark memory, and celebrate individuality. Rooted in Grasse traditions and shaped by modern American sensibility, each scent feels authentic, effortless, and expressive. A sustainable, creative approach that prioritizes meaning over mass, Fleurit Parfums redefines modern perfumery with heart and intimacy.

Crafted in france, Designed in california Cruelty-free Vegan
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Fugazzi

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Fugazzi

Fugazzi is a Dutch fragrance house born in 2018, inspired by ancient oils and the myth that Cleopatra bewitched Caesar with scent alone. Guided by Bram Niessink’s adventurous vision, the brand stays unapologetically rebellious and boundary-pushing, redefining modern luxury with bold, unforgettable fragrances.

Made in Amsterdam Cruelty-free Vegan
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Ghost Stories Harvest Moon extrait in a square clear bottle of amber liquid with a black leather-textured cap, black vintage-style label and moonlit silhouette illustration, photographed against a dark autumnal background.

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Ghost Stories

Ghost Stories Parfums is an independent house out of Utah Valley, run by Kelton and Kade. It started in 2024 when Kelton went looking for genuinely gothic, folklore-driven fragrances, couldn't find them, and taught himself perfumery to make them. Every scent pulls from spooky tales, legends, and myths, and every one is built to three rules: unisex, narrative-driven, and actually wearable. They're blended by hand in small batches at extrait concentration and left to mature at least three weeks before they ship.

Made in Utah, USA Cruelty-free
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Giardini di Toscana

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Giardini di Toscana

Giardini di Toscana is a family-founded perfume house rooted in Tuscan heritage. Silvia Martinelli channels emotion and memory into every luxurious blend. While Bianco Latte steals the spotlight, the full line adds sunny, handwritten Italian moments; sunlight on stone walls, a drawer-full of letters. Inspiration blooms in the garden, where scents recall childhood memories and citrus, musk, and blossoms mingle with architecture and nature. The story of this olfactory journey began in 1942, weaving tradition with a poetic, modern sensibility.

Made in Italy Cruelty-free
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Goldfield & Banks

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Goldfield & Banks

Goldfield & Banks began with a journey into Australia’s wild wonders. French-Belgian fragrance expert Dimitri Weber arrived to a land of rare ingredients and expansive landscapes where native botanicals meet French perfumery savoir-faire. The result is a gender-free collection that transports you to sunlit coasts, forests, and ochre horizons, pairing refined craft with the poetry of nature. Each eau de parfum is built to feel transportive, elegant, and distinctly Australian; crafted with exploration, artistry, and a deep respect for the land.

Made in Australia | Mostly vegan Cruelty-free
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Hilde Soliani

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Hilde Soliani

Hilde Soliani crafts theatrical, nostalgic, intensely personal fragrances. Based in Parma, Hilde (a painter, performer, and perfumer) turns scent into storytelling. Rooted in her memories and daily life, each scent proves depth can come from simplicity: a few notes, expansive dimension. From food to theater to fleeting emotions, every bottle is a love letter to life’s most fragrant moments.

Made in Italy Cruelty-free
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House of BŌ

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House of BŌ

House of Bō is a US fragrance brand rooted in Mexican heritage and a commitment to sustainable luxury. Founded by Bernardo Möller, the brand creates eco-luxe, handcrafted scents designed to awaken the senses and harmonize body and soul. Its elevated, gender-neutral line is built on ethically sourced, locally cultivated ingredients, and curated as limited editions born from collaboration, creativity, and a belief in inclusivity and simplicity. Each collection aims to empower the true self of the wearer while honoring artisanship, responsible sourcing, and a reverence for Mexico’s rich cultural tapestry.

Made in USA Cruelty-free Vegan
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Two women in pink swimsuits standing chest-deep in a turquoise pool, each holding a small pink House of Brandt Guava Sorbet Elixir bottle beside her face.

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House of Brandt

House of Brandt was born from a singular aim to bring intentionality to every step; story-driven inspiration, meticulous note selection, ethical sourcing, and thoughtful partnerships. Based in Nashville, our team of artisans draws on the city’s creative energy, while manufacturing in the United Kingdom to meet strict vegan and cruelty-free standards. The result is luxurious, refined fragrance that feels both worldly and intimate. Every bottle reflects careful research and deliberate design, marrying aesthetic polish with responsible craftsmanship.

Made in UK Cruelty-free Vegan
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House of Cosmo Crimson Aura heavy clear curved perfume bottle with vivid crimson-red liquid, black label and faceted dark gemstone-like cap against black.

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House of Cosmo

House of Cosmo is a US-based niche fragrance brand launched in 2025, specializing in high-performance scents that explore futuristic, cosmic, and ethereal ideas. Each fragrance begins with a concept, and every decision that follows is intentional, resulting in enduring, immersive scent profiles designed to feel just beyond reach; moments, futures, and places most will never experience. The brand delivers an elevated, boutique experience for the nose that’s playful in spirit but precise in craft.

Made in Italy Cruelty-free
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Imaginary Authors

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Imaginary Authors

Imaginary Authors is a storytelling perfume house: fragrances that conjure memories, unlock forgotten moments, and spark new ones. Each scent is a chapter, a book you wear, with creativity, love, and joy guiding every blend. They think of their perfumes as books on a shelf; one isn’t enough. A collection lets you fit mood, moment, and season, turning fragrance into a daily ritual of surprise and delight. Inclusive, playful, and endlessly imaginative, our worlds invite you to discover scents that change your life...page by page.

Made in Portland, Oregon, USA Cruelty-free Vegan
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Indult

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Indult

Indult Paris is a nod to exclusivity and art in perfume. Founded in 2006 by Francis Kurkdjian and revived by passionate enthusiasts, it offers four masterfully crafted scents made from the finest materials, once limited to 999 bottles each. Today, Indult Paris partners with master perfumers to relaunch these French classics, inviting you to experience intimate, museum-worthy fragrances that feel as rare as they are wearable. A true homage to fragrance as art, crafted for connoisseurs who refuse to blend in.

Made in Paris, france Cruelty-free
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Jorum Studio

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Jorum Studio

Jorum Studio, crafted in Edinburgh by Scottish perfumer Euan McCall, brings a poetic sensibility to modern perfumery. Since 2019, this independent house blends classical technique with unconventional design, turning nature into expressive, artful fragrances. In-house from start to finish, a small multidisciplinary team keeps creative control and a signature, fresh edge. Fragrances that explore emotion and botanical storytelling, inviting personal expression and sensory curiosity.

Made in Scotland Cruelty-free Vegan
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Ki-Oku

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Ki-Oku

KI-OKU is fragrance with a backbone: affordable luxury that doesn’t compromise on uniqueness or vibe. Founded by irl, this line is all about owning your confidence, weaving your story into scent, and stepping into any room as who you are meant to be. Each fragrance is crafted to be wearable, highly projecting, and unmistakably romantic. Designed to stand out from the Broadway crowd without costing an arm and a leg.

Made in los angeles, usa Cruelty-free Vegan
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L'Epoque

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L'Epoque

L’Epoque by Rachel Green captures fragrance as a moment, not a signature. Story-driven scents designed to hold emotion, memory, and playfulness in thoughtful composition. From Dallas, each 30ml bottle is a small archive of who you were this season; no pressure to be a lifetime scent, just something true for now. A modern bridge between online talk and real experience, crafted to mark a chapter you’ll wear and remember.

Made in USA Cruelty-free Vegan
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Le Jardin Retrouvé

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Le Jardin Retrouvé

Le Jardin Retrouvé is a French family-run haute perfumery house born from a shared devotion to the garden. Founded in 1975 around the idea that nature’s calm can be captured in scent, the maison has preserved a legacy of delicate, expressive fragrances that invite you to slow down, breathe deeply, and reconnect with memory and place. In 2017, Michel Gutsatz, son of the founders, joined forces with artist Clara Feder to relaunch Le Jardin Retrouvé with a forward-looking, environmentally conscious vision. They honored Yuri Gutsatz’s enduring legacy while carefully stewarding his exquisite formulas, processes, and trusted suppliers. The house is driven by in-house perfumers who translate a lifetime of expertise into modern, emotionally resonant scents: Yuri’s archival inspiration informs the brand’s soul.

Made in Paris, france Cruelty-free Vegan
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Liis

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Liis

Liis is a California-born fragrance label that blends minimalism with memory. Founded by Alissa Sullivan and Leslie Hendin, two Bay Area neighbors who finally met in London, Liis creates bright, wearable scents with luxurious softness for daily wear. The clean, dreamy aesthetic nudges you toward elevated simplicity and fresh expression. Made in California, Liis is a jewel-box of scent designed to feel effortless and timeless.

Made in California. Allergy tested Cruelty-free Vegan
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Maison Mataha

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Maison Mataha

Maison Mataha started with a couple in Paris who couldn't find the vanilla they wanted. They were collectors, obsessive about longevity and sillage, and nothing on the market delivered the dark, crème brûlée vanilla they had in their heads. So they spent a year making it themselves, working with master perfumer Vincent Ricord, and released Escapade Gourmande in 2020 at 35% concentration with no dyes. For three years it was the only thing they made. The collection has since grown, but the approach hasn't changed: gourmand, unapologetically indulgent, and built to last on skin.

Made in france Cruelty-free Vegan
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Soft-focus botanical image of delicate white linden blossoms and green leaves with large white “Limerence” text and the words linden blossom, tuberose and cashmere.

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Maison des Animaux

Maison des Animaux is a fragrance house built by two sisters who chose personality over pretense. Every scent is rooted in the raw human experiences of longing, desire, and the hunger for more, translated into bottles that are evocative, unexpected, and genuinely fun. Blended in small batches without shortcuts by a perfumer obsessively devoted to rare materials and the exact moment a scent becomes transportive, these are fragrances full of life, nuance, and a little animal instinct.

vegan since 2025 Cruelty-free
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Marissa Zappas

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Marissa Zappas

Marissa Zappas is a New York–based perfumer and poet crafting scents that feel like dreamy artifacts from another life. Rooted in history yet blooming with imagination, her fragrances straddle reality and reverie, drawing on anthropology, gothic beauty, and memory. With experience at Givaudan and tutelage under Olivier Gillotin, she creates thoughtful formulas that explore femininity, death, and scent memory; the past, present, and future all in one bottle.

Made in NYC Cruelty-free Vegan
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Marlou Héliodose eau de parfum in a squat amber-brown apothecary bottle with wide natural cork cap and a white wraparound label printed with abstract black line-and-shape artwork on pale gray.

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Marlou

Marlou is imperfection in bloom; provocative, intimate, animalic fragrances that fuse with your skin and become part of your natural scent. It’s a perfume that partners with your body’s own olfactory signal to reveal a fresh, personal vibe that’s all you. These scents linger close to the skin, inviting a primal, intimate bond with yourself and with others, an invitation to own your sensuality, outside the box. Marlou isn’t about loud branding; it’s about a confident, effortless presence that stands out because it’s genuinely you.

Made in Paris, France
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Narcotica

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Narcotica

Narcotica is high-concentration perfumery that leans into your obsessions. Each extrait dives into inner dependencies. Allure, subconscious desire, personal intensity; seduction in scent and concept. It’s for wild minds and unconventional beauty, an art of indulgence at its richest. In bold 100ml bottles, Narcotica delivers extrait strength (20–40%) with room-stopping presence that lingers.

Made in Italy Cruelty-free Vegan
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Colorful Pearfat fragrance collection arranged across a vivid yellow surface in front of turquoise and shiny hot-pink satin, with bottles including Kewpie Doll, Bread & Roses, Bed of Lettuce, 2030 Park, Rabbit Rabbit and I’ll Never Learn.

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Pearfat

Pearfat is undeniably charming. Rooted in the Midwest, Pearfat Parfum captures growing up in the American Midwest, honoring iconic fragrances of the past while playful enough to poke fun at the human body. It blends the molecular traditions of perfumery with modern olfactory innovations in gender-fluid nods to pop culture; scents that speak directly to instigators.

Made in the USA Cruelty-free Vegan
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PEOSYM

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PEOSYM

PEOSYM—Personal Expression Of Stories, Yearnings & Memories—embodies a mission to offer perfume as a medium of self-discovery and connection. The brand began as a personal search for a feeling, a memory, a moment that could be held, and grew into a collection crafted by Purvi Joshi, an Indian creative now based in Sydney. Peosym fragrances explore the quiet poetry of everyday life, transforming fleeting moments into carefully composed sensory stories that invite introspection and shared humanity.

Made in Australia Cruelty-free Vegan
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Pineward Fanghorn II extrait bottle with very dark liquid and white pine-tree graphic nestled among rough tree bark, green moss, pine needles and blue-green conifer branches.

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Pineward

Pineward is perfumer Nick Nilsson's ongoing project to build the ultimate line of pine and fir fragrances. He'd tried plenty of conifer scents and found most of them too polite. So he started making his own: abandoned alpine farmsteads, fog-soaked firs, rotting logs, mushroom mycelium, sap-crusted spruce. The perfumes lean heavily on concentrated naturals and absolutes, which makes them dense and unusually true to life.

Made in colorado, usa
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Room 1015

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Room 1015

Room 1015 is the work of Michael Partouche (a musician and trained pharmacist who goes by Dr. Mike) and it sits exactly where those two lives overlap. The name comes from a legendary hotel room, the setting for some of rock's most famous excesses, and the brand treats counterculture as something with its own scent as much as its own sound and language. The fragrances run through rebellion, love stories, and self-expression. Loud, unbothered, and made for people with no interest in blending in.

Made in france Cruelty-free Vegan
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Sarah Baker Perfumes

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Sarah Baker Perfumes

Sarah Baker Perfumes invites you to main character energy in a world where scent meets storytelling. Each scent is born from collaboration with top noses, crafted with exquisite materials, and imagined as a luxurious, immersive experience. They push the boundaries of contemporary perfumery while staying artisanal in spirit; an artform-to-fragrance alliance that feels intimate, unapologetic, and personal. With founder Sarah Baker’s multidisciplinary background in fine art, film, and installation, every fragrance comes with a narrative, often in the form of original mini screenplays, inviting you to step into a moment that’s yours to own.

Made in East london, UK | mostly vegan Cruelty-free
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Scent Control

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Scent Control

Scent Control is an independent perfume house born in NYC in late 2024, making waves for good reason. It captures the rhythm of relationships, city moments, and unfiltered modern life with a refreshingly refined edge. Each fragrance is unisex, confident, and wearable; designed for the everyday but far from ordinary. Expect balance, boldness, and blends that feel as personal as they are polished.

Made in NYC Cruelty-free
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Simone Andreoli

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Simone Andreoli

Simone Andreoli is a luxury fragrance universe that turns journeys, memories, and creative soul into scent. Inspired by travel and Italian savoir-faire, Simone Andreoli invites you to wear perfume as a narrative: exploration in a bottle, transporting you to hidden beaches, tangled forests, and bustling cities. A contemporary reimagining of perfumery that honors freedom, memory, and the art of storytelling through scent.

Made in Carpi, Italy
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SORA DORA

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SORA DORA

SORA DORA is a fragrance house born from quiet rebellion and scent as salvation. It traces a lineage back to 1902, when Antoine Soradora—a contemplative child from southern Portugal—chose sensory devotion over expectation. From the cliffs of Loulé to jasmine fields in Grasse, his scents became diaries of land, love, and legacy. Today, SORA DORA, guided by his descendants, blends romance with memory in unisex, emotionally layered compositions. Worn like chapters, these fragrances reward with a rich, addictive trail for both men and women.

Made in France Cruelty-free
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Stora Skuggan

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Stora Skuggan

Stora Skuggan means "big shadow," borrowed from a wooded area outside Stockholm, and it suits a house this interested in the unexplained. Five friends who met studying design at Beckmans founded it in 2015 and have done every piece themselves since. Each fragrance orbits a myth, a strange bit of history, or a phenomenon that may or may not be real, and grows into its own small world from there. Expect unusual materials handled with real skill: wormwood, belladonna, salted licorice, candle wax, hemlock. Atmospheric, conceptual, and never decorative for its own sake.

Made in Stockholm, Sweden | mostly vegan Cruelty-free
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TEKES

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TEKES

TEKES is Hebrew for "ceremony," which tells you most of what you need to know. Friends Yarin Kedem and Sean Mizrahi founded the New York house in 2020 over a shared love of design and a belief that scent is the fastest way to shift a mood. The fragrances are composed by master perfumers in Paris and produced in small batches by heritage ateliers in Grasse, drawing on the history and cultures of the Mediterranean. Detail runs through everything: each perfume is hallmarked with custom initials designed around the name and the story behind it.

Made in Grasse, France Cruelty-free Vegan
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Theodoros Kalotinis

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Theodoros Kalotinis

Theodoros Kalotinis is a master of gourmands and memory, a scent artisan who grew up among herbs, flowers, and his grandmother’s kitchen in Crete. A childhood game of blindfolded spice-sniffing sparked a lifelong obsession with scent, evolving into a self-taught perfumer’s craft by 2014; blending fine fragrance ingredients with grape-distilled alcohol to create edible, dessert-inspired fragrances that feel like love letters to memory. Kalotinis is renowned in fashion and beauty circles (even commissioned for King Charles III and Queen Camilla), earning the nickname “the king of gourmands.” His creations are sensorial stories told through syrupy swirls and delicate details, reimagining Greek nature as edible elegance in each bottle.

Made in crete, greece Cruelty-free
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Zernell Gillie

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Zernell Gillie

Founded by Chicago DJ Zernell Gillie, this fragrance line is the scent of basslines and soul; vinyl spinning in a crowded room. Born from a lifelong love of music and scent, each perfume is composed like a track: layered, nostalgic, and alive. Zernell Gillie doesn’t just draw inspiration from music; it is music in fragrance form. This brand hits every note.

hand-poured in the usa Cruelty-free Vegan
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