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13 Niche Fragrances I've Recently Added to My Collection
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items From niche to designer, I offer up my honest review of 13 new fragrances I've added to my collection as a self-proclaimed perfume lover.
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Designer
These are designer fragrances that are more widely accessible. For example, you could pick these up at your local department store!
While Parfums de Marly is technically a niche fragrance house, I'm including it in the designer category due to its growing popularity and accessibility in places like Nordstrom & Neiman Marcus. I received this for my birthday, and it's definitel...
Delina La Rosée Eau de Parfum
I was pleasantly surprised by this fragrance! I don't typically lean toward gourmands. But this, while it has a very heavy vanilla note, also has a very prominent lavender note that makes it elevated and ever-so sophisticated. Great for sultry evenin...
Libre Eau de Parfum Intense Women's Perfume - YSL Beauty
Niche
A bit more difficult to find, these selects come from smaller houses, thus making them a bit more unique in my opinion.
This fragrance is alluring and slightly sweet, but altogether very sophisticated. I think what makes it so sophisticated is the vanilla and sandalwood at the base. Then the house builds on top with orange blossom and peach. I think it'd be perfect fo...
Bukhara Ormonde Jayne
This is honestly everything I love in a fragrance—an inviting, warm skin scent. There's a measured presence of wood on the top, but when it dries down, it's an elegant musk and ambroxan. My favorite! I wore this to my baby shower.
PARISIAN MUSC - MATIERE PREMIERE
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Similar to Parisian Musc, this is a gorgeous skin scent, especially for lovers of “I Don't Know What” by D.S. & Durga. This feels a bit more complex, with notes of clay and rice that feel very prominent to me. Alluring and unisex, I think this is...
Naked Dance by .Oddity
If you love Tom Ford's Tobacco Vanille, and you're looking for a beautiful, cold-weather option, I think Nightcap by Orebella is a great choice at an affordable price point. It's boozy and enigmatic on the top, but dries down to a warm skin scent upo...
Nightcap - Orebella
Another sophisticated and complex compilation from Ormonde Jayne, this one reads a bit more masculine with the cedar and gorgeous cashmeran at the base, but still altogether lovely. Meant to conjure images of foreign spice trails, this fragrance is i...
Kashmir - Ormonde Jayne
This is one of the most unique fragrances I've encountered. Modeled after cults of the 1200s, this has tons of herbacious and outdoorsy notes like birch, incense, cyprus and pine, but somehow it just works! Very androgynous, edgy, and perfect for the...
Mississippi Medicine - D.S. & DURGA
Aquatic, fresh, and lovely. If you're a fan of the original 11:11 by Lake & Skye, you'll lovoe this watery, floral take.
11 11 Azure - Lake and Skye
If you love the original Glossier You, and you love a woodsy scent, you *have to* give this a try! It's like Le Labo Santal 33's younger, Gen Z sister. It's light, wearable and so, so gorgeous.
Glossier You Doux
Modeled after a grand flower shop in Sydney, Australia, this scent is everything you want from a green, white floral scent. It is beautiful, enchanting, perfect for warm-weather days. Not only that, but it has amazing staying power and projection!
Grandiflora
I didn't know a fragrance could have a sense of melancholy, but this is a floral scent that captures the unique essence of sadness. It's truly unlike anything I have smelt before and I love what RDF is doing as a house!
TEARS – Régime des Fleurs
I absolutely love what Vyrao is doing as a house, meeting at the intersection of energy and fragrance. The Sixth is a fragrance that not only smells deliciously uplifting, but is also said to activate your intuition. I love layering it with any other...
The Sixth - Vyrao