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Guides and background on perfume houses, notes and how to choose and wear a perfume.
Matière Première is the French house of perfumer Aurélien Guichard, who builds every perfume around one central natural raw material. This guide covers the eight Matière Première perfumes we list,...
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Goldfield & Banks is an Australian house, created by Dimitri Weber, that builds each perfume around a native Australian botanical. This guide covers the eight Goldfield & Banks perfumes we...
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Mind Games is a niche house that takes its names, its bottles and its ideas from chess, and makes every full-size perfume as an Extrait de Parfum. This guide covers...
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BORNTOSTANDOUT is a Seoul house, launched in 2022, with white porcelain-style bottles, provocative names and perfumes composed by outside perfumers. This guide covers the ten BORNTOSTANDOUT perfumes we list, eight...
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Essential Parfums is a Paris house, founded in 2018, where every perfume is made by a different perfumer who signs the bottle. This guide covers the ten Essential Parfums perfumes...
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Sarah Baker Perfumes is an artist-run house in East London that makes every perfume with a different independent perfumer and presents each one as a character. This guide covers the...
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Cold air suits dense, warm perfumes. Here is what makes a scent work in winter, with eight niche perfumes from eight houses that each show a different kind of warmth,...
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Tiziana Terenzi is the perfume line of an Italian family house that began as a candle workshop in Cattolica and prints Since 1968 on its packaging. This guide covers the...
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Jo Milano Paris is the house behind Game of Spades, a line of parfums named after playing cards, poker terms and gemstones. This guide covers the nine Game of Spades...
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Sospiro is a house founded in Italy in 2011 that writes each perfume like a musical score and names many of them after musical terms. This guide covers the ten...
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Argos is an American house, founded in 2014 by Christian Petrovich, that builds every fragrance on a Greek or Roman myth. This guide covers the ten Argos perfumes we list,...
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Editions de Parfums Frédéric Malle is a Paris house, founded in 2000, that treats perfumers as authors and prints their names on the bottle. This guide covers the ten Frederic...
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