If you care about indie perfumery, put Atelier Élixir on your radar. A breakdown of Roi De...
Cedar
Aquatic and marine fragrances are built around the smell of open water — sea spray, salt, wet...
Fougère translates to “fern,” despite there being no actual fern note in perfumery — the term refers...
Tropical fragrance carries a reputation problem — dismissed by serious collectors as beach-bag filler, a category built...
Reworking this list with a specific brief in mind: think Anne Rice’s Lestat, not a smoky oriental...
Riiffs — the Emirati house behind the original Freeze — just put out a flanker called Freeze...
Mind Games is the chess-themed niche house from Alex and Mariana Shalbaf’s Fragrance Group — every scent...
If you’ve spent any time at all in niche fragrance groups, you’ve smelled Bois Impérial or at...
I keep seeing “freshie” thrown around in fragrance groups and honestly it took me a minute to...